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单词 pernoctation
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pernoctationn.

Brit. /ˌpəːnɒkˈteɪʃn/, U.S. /pərˌnɑkˈteɪʃ(ə)n/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin pernoctation-, pernoctatio.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin pernoctation-, pernoctatio action of passing the night, especially in prayer (5th cent.) < classical Latin pernoctāt- , past participial stem of pernoctāre (see pernoctate v.) + -iō -ion suffix1.
The action of passing or spending the night (in early use esp. in prayer); †an all-night vigil (obsolete).Now only at Oxford and Cambridge Universities.
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the world > time > day and night > night > [noun] > passing or spending the night
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society > faith > worship > sacrament > (extreme) unction > vigil > [noun]
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wakingc1175
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1633 W. Prynne Histrio-mastix 429 Those Diabolicall pernoctations which are this day practised.
1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar i. §16. 128 Instances of sack-cloth,..long fasts, pernoctation in prayers.
1725 H. Bourne Antiquitates Vulgares xii. 117 Among the primitive Christians the Lord's day was always ushered in with a Pernoctation or Vigil.
1782 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music (1957) ii. i. 412 The Mesonycticon, or midnight service, and the Pernoctations, are still retained in the Liturgy of that Communion [sc. the Greek Church].
1839 W. O. Manning Law Nations (1875) iv. vi. 194 The rule of pernoctation and twenty-four hours possession.
1893 Dict. National Biogr. XXXV. 334/1 He..used to go to Cambridge every evening by the last train in order to perform the pernoctation essential for keeping a term.
1923 C. Morley Powder of Sympathy 3 ‘A Term by residence means pernoctation within the University for six weeks in Michaelmas or in Hilary Term, and for three weeks in Easter or in Trinity (or Act) Term’..but we were not halting, just now, over technicalities.
1997 N. Tyacke Hist. Univ. Oxf. IV. 75 At St John's pernoctation was usually punished by loss of a week's commons.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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