| 单词 | praying machine |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspraying machine praying machine n. (a) Buddhism a prayer wheel, or other mechanical aid to prayer; (b) figurative a person whose occupation or purpose is prayer, or who prays often. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > implement (general) > prayer-wheel > [noun] prayer wheel1788 praying machinea1807 prayer mill1832 praying cylinder1834 praying wheel1854 prayer cylinder1862 a1807 Britannic Mag. 9 155/1 He observed several small windmill-wings: he was informed they were praying machines, on which the owner of the hut causes certain prayers to be written by the priests, that they may be turned round by the wind, and he thereby freed from the trouble of repeating them himself. 1826 S. Stallybrass Jrnl. 16 July in E. Stallybrass Mem. Mrs. Stallybrass (1836) iv. 203 An old man..was travelling sixty versts on foot,..for the purpose of turning the praying machine for a week,..in order to atone for past misconduct and drunkenness. 1892 W. Besant London iii. 127 It is not every man who can be thus changed into a slave and a praying-machine. 1953 Chillicothe (Missouri) Constit. Tribune 17 Oct. 2/5 The heathens have praying machines and prayer-wheels. 1972 C. Stephenson Merrily on High xii. 185 Eastern [Orthodox] spirituality has tended to regard monks as primarily ‘praying machines’. There has never been the tradition of ‘scholar monks’ which we have had in the west. 2000 Virginian Pilot (Nexis) 7 Apr. e3 I say at least 100 prayers each day. I am a praying machine! < as lemmas |
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