单词 | pollinctor |
释义 | pollinctorn. Now rare (chiefly Roman History). A person who prepares a corpse for burial, cremation, or embalming, by washing, anointing, etc.; spec. one who is employed to do this; an undertaker. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > preparation or treatment of corpse > [noun] > washing or anointing > one who pollinctor1606 1606 W. Birnie Blame of Kirk-buriall vii. sig. Cv The pollinctors inbalmed and Sandapilarianes bespised, the corps of the great. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vii. xix. 384 What is delivered by Herodotus concerning the Ægyptian Pollinctors, or such as annointed the dead. View more context for this quotation 1706 J. Evelyn Silva (ed. 4) ii. iv. 156 One of the greatest Secrets used by our Pollinctors and Mountebanks who pretend to this Embalming Mystery. 1839 T. De Quincey 2nd Paper on Murder in Blackwood's Mag. Nov. 668/1 His invaluable friend the pollinctor. 1874 A. Rich Dict. Rom. & Greek Antiq. (ed. 4) 515/1 Pollinctor, one of the undertaker's men, whose business it was to wash and anoint a corpse, and prepare it for burial, or for the funeral pile. 1913 F. H. Marshall in J. Sandys Compan. Lat. Stud. (ed. 2) v. 180 A man, perhaps the pollinctor, is in the act of placing a garland upon the head of the corpse. 1969 Liberator Dec. 13/2 I left the funeral home along with the body and the pollinctor. 1994 P. C. Finney Invisible God 267 (note) The pollinctor normally had the responsibility of cleaning, oiling and wrapping cadavers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1606 |
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