单词 | prayer house |
释义 | > as lemmasprayer house prayer house n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > sanctuary or holy place > [noun] holinessc897 houseeOE halidomc1000 ZionOE God's houseOE wike-tuna1250 saintuairea1300 sanctuarya1340 holy1382 entry?c1400 the Holy (Saint) Sepulchre (occasionally the Sepulchre)c1400 high placea1425 place of worship?1459 synagogue1490 God-box?1548 shrinea1577 bethela1617 prayer house1657 barn1689 bidental1692 altar1772 praying housea1843 1606 W. Birnie Blame of Kirk-buriall xix. sig. F Vpon the dittey of making prayers house a caue of knaues.] 1657 in R. Renwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Peebles (1910) 43 To and fra the back doore..of the chaipell or prayer hous. 1761 I. Watts Short View Script. Hist. xix. 168 There were Prayer houses called Proseuchai, which differed from Synagogues. 1829 Times 4 Feb. 3/2 On gaining admission into the building the Prayer House presented one complete mass of fire and smoke. 1913 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 49 149 These prayer houses are a local institution, older and different from the churches. 1992 Guadalupe Rev. Oct. 22/2 Cedar smoke in a prayer house constructed in the last century pervades my memory. < as lemmas |
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