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单词 belt of paternosters
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belt of paternosters (or Our Fathers)
P1. belt of paternosters (or Our Fathers): a certain number of Our Fathers recited consecutively as a devotion; a studded belt, string of beads, or similar item used for keeping count when reciting this set of prayers. historical. Obsolete. [This use originated as a mistranslation by H. Spelman (see quot. 1664) of the passage in quot. OE, in which Old English æt VII beltidum , lit. ‘at the seven bell-times’, is apparently intended to gloss post-classical Latin canonicis horis , lit. ‘at the canonical hours’. In what N.E.D. (1887) described as ‘one of the most grotesque blunders on record’, Spelman misinterpreted Old English beltīdum (dative plural of beltīd canonical hour (marked by the ringing of a bell), lit. ‘bell-time’; < bell n.1 + tide n.) as a Latin inflection of a putative word related to belt n.1, and construed it with the following Pater Noster as ‘a paternoster of seven belts’, which he explained as a rosary.]
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belt of paternosters (or Our Fathers)1720
OE Acts Council of Chelsea in A. W. Haddan & W. Stubbs Councils & Eccl. Documents (1871) III. 584 Et xxx diebus canonicis horis expleto synaxeos æt vii beltidum Pater Noster pro eo cantetur.
1664 H. Spelman Glossarium 79/1 Beltis,... Rosarium.]
1720 J. Johnson Coll. Eccl. Laws Church of Eng. I. sig. Q3 When the Canonical Hours are finish'd.., let seven Belts of Pater-Nosters also, be sung for him. [Note] VII Beltidum Pater Noster: This seems to imply, that they had, in this Age, a certain Number of Studs fastened into their Belts, or Girdles, which were then us'd..for the numbring of their Prayers.
1845 J. Lingard Hist. & Antiq. Anglo-Saxon Church (ed. 3) II. ix. 69 The frequent repetition of the Lord's prayer, technically called a belt of Pater-nosters. [Note] A belt of Pater-nosters appears to correspond with a string of beads of later times... It is probable that the belt contained fifty Pater-nosters.
1852 D. Rock Church our Fathers III. i. viii. 8 After the canonical hours of the public service were over, seven ‘belts’ of Our Fathers had to be sung for the deceased.
1899 Reliquary Jan. 102 According to the evidence afforded by the wills and testamentary dispositions of the times the common English name for the beads was a ‘pair a beads,’ or a ‘belt of paternosters.’
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