单词 | beatitude |
释义 | beatituden. 1. a. Supreme blessedness or happiness. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > happiness > supreme or heavenly happiness > [noun] blissc1175 Edena1225 heaven bliss?c1225 joyc1275 blessedheada1300 blissfulheada1340 third heavenc1384 paradisec1395 benisona1400 blessednessa1400 heavena1413 jocundnessc1426 everlastingness1434 jocundityc1450 beatitudea1492 beatification1502 blessedfulness1526 beautitude1578 Elysiuma1616 suavitya1617 seventh heaven1786 heaven of heavens1885 society > faith > aspects of faith > holiness > consecration > blessing > [noun] > blessedness blessedheada1300 benisona1400 blessednessa1400 beatitudea1492 beautitude1578 a1492 W. Caxton tr. Vitas Patrum (1495) i. xliv. f. lxxv/2 How by abstynence..myghte begoten the souerayne beatytude or blessydnesse. a1555 J. Bradford in M. Coverdale Certain Lett. Martyrs (1564) 352 There shall be ioye..and all kynde of beatitude. 1643 W. Prynne Soveraigne Power Parl. i. 48 Knowing better..what conduced to the beatitude of the Empire. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 62 The Sanctities of Heaven..from his sight receiv'd Beatitude past utterance. View more context for this quotation 1796 S. T. Coleridge Relig. Musings in Poems Var. Subj. 163 Such delights, such strange beatitude Seize on my young anticipating heart. 1875 J. Ruskin Lect. Art (ed. 2) i. 5 The consummate beatitude of being rich. b. An honorific title (rendering Greek μακαριότης) applied esp. to ecclesiastics of the Eastern Churches of patriarchal rank. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > patriarch > [noun] primatec1275 patriarchc1300 beatitude1658 1658 J. Burbury tr. G. Gualdo Priorato Hist. Christina Queen of Swedland 127 When his Beatitude had declared four extraordinary Nuntii, to receive her on the confines of the Ecclesiastical State. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Holyness St. Gregory compliments some of his cotemporary Bishops with Your Beatitude, Your Holyness. 1925 Glasgow Herald 7 Sept. 11 His Beatitude the Lord Photios, Patriarch and Pope of Alexandria. 2. A declaration or ascription of special blessedness; esp. (in plural) those pronounced by Christ in the Sermon on the Mount. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > biblical events > [noun] > discourse > beatitudes blessingsc1400 beatitude1526 macarisma1860 society > faith > aspects of faith > holiness > consecration > blessing > [noun] > declaration or ascription of special blessedness beatitude1877 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection ii. sig. Mvi The .viii. beatitudes that..spryngeth of grace, and the other vertues. 1588 A. King tr. P. Canisius Cathechisme or Schort Instr. 186 These quhilk S. Ambrose callis our Lords beatitudes. 1777 J. W. Fletcher Reconciliation vi. 57 Bent upon the inheriting the seventh beatitude. 1877 F. W. Farrar In Days of Youth (ed. 4) i. 10 The priceless beatitude of the pure in heart. 3. = beatification n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > holiness > saint > canonization > [noun] canonizationc1380 canonizingc1380 sainting1570 beatification1629 canonicationa1641 consecrationa1676 beatitude1837 sanctification1855 1847 B. Disraeli Tancred I. i. v. 60 The saint was scarcely canonized, before his claims to beatitude were impugned. 1866 H. Bushnell Vicarious Sacrifice i. v. 116 Candidates for beatitude. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.a1492 |
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