单词 | belt of paternosters |
释义 | > as lemmasbelt of paternosters (or Our Fathers) ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > prayer > kinds of prayer > [noun] > the Lord's Prayer > repetition of > frequent 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.’ < as lemmas |
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