单词 | pillar of repentance |
释义 | > as lemmaspillar of repentance c. Chiefly Scottish. A whipping post; a raised structure (a platform, pedestal, etc.) on which a person undergoes public punishment or penance. Also pillar of repentance. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > public or popular punishments > [noun] > platform pillara1475 society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > instrument or place of corporal punishment > [noun] > whipping-post or tripod pillara1475 rogue stob1550 post1555 whipping-post1600 whipping-stock1615 fork1619 whipstock1619 flogging-stake1785 flogging-block1827 triangle1847 whipping-pole1862 a1475 J. Shirley Death James (BL Add. 5467) in Miscellanea Scotica (1818) II. 23 This same Erle of Athetelles was..lad to the polour yn the towne, and ther was he fast boundon. a1525 Bk. Sevyne Sagis 1015, in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 33 That þai suld..in presone..be done Syne..On a pillar' be done of braβ And þar' thole schame for þair trespaβ. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 254/1 Pyller to do justyce, estache. 1556 in J. G. Nichols Chron. Grey Friars (1852) 95 The same man..was betten with whyppes at the peller in Chepe at the standert. a1600 Meaning of Marriage (Sloane 1983B) in Jyl of Breyntford's Test. (1871) 40 Ye vold taiken it ill to me..and mad me sit on the pillar of repentance. 1646 in Z. Boyd Zion's Flowers (1855) App. p. xlii/1 That [i.e. Those] women who appear on the pillar with plaids..it shall not be esteemed a day of their appearance. 1691 in W. Macgill Old Ross-shire & Scotl. (1909) I. 237 Thrie treadsmen of the same town are ordered to be brought to the tron piller and to have thair eares nailed thairto. 1726 A. Ramsay Tea-Table Misc. II. 132 Now Tam maun face the minister, And she maun mount the pillar. 1787 R. Lewis Dublin Guide 106 They were places of penance, or purgatorial pillars, in which the penitent was elevated. 1869 H. C. Lea Stud. Church Hist. 475 In 1606 we see the kirk-session of Ayr inflict the..pillar of repentance on John M'Crie. 1885 A. Edgar Church Life 290 The church ‘pillar’ was the conspicuous object. 1975 Liturg. Rev. ii. 55 The pillar, the stool of repentance,..and so forth. 1993 P. Ackroyd House of Dr. Dee 68 ‘You have no disease’, I replied, ‘that could not be cured at the whipping pillar.’ < as lemmas |
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