| 单词 | paschal lamb |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspaschal lamb paschal lamb n. (also Paschal Lamb) [after post-classical Latin agnus paschalis (5th cent.); compare Middle French aignel pascal (beginning of the 14th cent.; French agneau pascal (1765))] (a) the lamb slain and eaten at the Passover; (b) Christ; one of various symbolic representations of Christ (cf. Agnus Dei n. 2a). ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrifice or a sacrifice > kinds of sacrifice > [noun] > of animal > lamb Easter offeringa1387 pasch-lamba1400 paschal lamba1500 Passover1530 Passover lamb1538 paschal1656 a1500 (?c1440) J. Lydgate Horse, Goose & Sheep (Lansd.) 316 in Minor Poems (1934) ii. 552 (MED) This Paschale Lamb..yaff His bodi to man in forme of bred On Sheerthursday be-forn ar He was ded. 1596 A. Copley Fig for Fortune 50 Was not he the holie Paschall-lambe That di'd repinelesse for the sinnes of man? 1735 Gentleman's Mag. July 366/1 The Paschal Lamb being not the real Passover but a Memorial. 1845 H. J. Rose in Encycl. Metrop. (1847) II. 891/1 The paschal lamb they called the body of the Passover. 1858 ‘G. Eliot’ Amos Barton ii. 63 He talked of Israel and its sins, of chosen vessels, of the Paschal lamb. 1995 L. Jacobs Jewish Relig. 374/1 After the destruction of the Temple the Paschal lamb could not be offered and the Passover rituals centred entirely on the avoidance of leaven and the celebration of the Seder. < as lemmas |
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