单词 | pickpurse purgatory |
释义 | > as lemmaspickpurse purgatory a. Christian Church (derogatory). As an epithet of the doctrine of purgatory, viewed (sometimes in personified form) as a means of obtaining money for the church, as through payments for masses to be said, etc. Only in purgatory pickpurse, †pickpurse purgatory. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > benefice > other financial matters > [noun] > payment made for specific purpose > for saying mass > use made of doctrine of purgatory to obtain pickpurse purgatory1528 1528 W. Tyndale Obed. Christen Man f. clx How they make marchaundice with fayned wordes, penaunce, a pena et a culpa, satisfaccion, attricion, character, purgatory pyckepurse. 1537 tr. H. Latimer Serm. to Clergie sig. D.ii They that begotte and brought forth, that our old ancient purgatorie pycke pourse [L. Cæterum qui purgatorium illud nostrum antiquum, & lucrosum generarunt]. 1556 J. Olde tr. R. Gwalther Antichrist f. 81v That most gayneful fornace of the popes pikepurce Purgatorie. a1591 H. Smith Gods Arrowe (1622) 60 It may be well and justly called Purgatorie Pick~purse; wealth and great riches of the clergy, was the only mark they aimed at. 1712 M. Henry Popery in Wks. (1853) II. 346/2 ‘Purgatory pick-purse’, so it has been called. 1922 W. R. Inge Outspoken Ess. 2nd Ser. 34 The reformers in the sixteenth century complained of ‘Purgatory Pickpurse’. 1964 C. Hill Society & Puritanism Pre-Revolutionary Eng. vii. 287 The end of belief in Purgatory-pick-purse had economic consequences. < as lemmas |
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