单词 | predicatory |
释义 | predicatoryadj.n. Now rare. A. adj. 1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a preacher or preaching; involving or derived from preaching. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > preacher > [adjective] predicatory1611 predicant1629 homilistical1659 predicative1772 predicatorial1772 preacherly1905 1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. Bb8v A certayne Dominican Frier.., who was the chiefe reader of the Praedicatory family. 1645 R. Overton Sacred Decretall 14 This is our predicatory Prowesse, when we advance to the Pulpit. 1804 W. Mitford Inq. Princ. Harmony Lang. (ed. 2) 319 The most recent examples..are of the predicatory or oratorical kind. 1847 J. Wilson in G. Smith Life J. Wilson (1879) xiv. 238 I have recommenced my usual Sabbath services both predicatory and catechetical. 1894 New Eng. Mag. June 481/1 He was apt to begin and end his sentences in his lay or colloquial manner, while weaving in some general reflection worded in his professional or predicatory style. 1948 B. Rackham tr. O. Fischel Raphael I. xv. 287 The great new..eternal laws remain perceptible, in conformity with which the sublime, predicatory style on the heroic plane discloses itself in this latest work of the master. 1997 MELUS Winter 149 The ‘thou’ position connotes an intimate relationship, a difference between familiars. This is the form of address the predicatory tradition of Christianity uses for prayers and sermons. 2. Characterized by being proclaimed or publicly extolled. rare. ΚΠ 1902 Contemp. Rev. Sept. 353 In his somewhat ostentatious and predicatory conversion. B. n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > monasticism > religious order > Dominican Order > [noun] predicatory1660 O.P.1891 1660 E. Warcupp tr. F. Schottus Italy ii. 168 A Monastery of Nuns governed by the Predicatory [It. gouernate da Predicatori, L. sub cura Fratrum Prædicatorum], instituted by Maddalena Orsina. 2. A preacher. rare. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > preacher > [noun] angelOE spellera1200 preacher?c1225 sermonerc1325 predicatorc1460 predicant?1519 pulpit man1581 homilist1616 concionator1623 sermonist1630 sermoneera1637 homiliana1641 pulpiteer1643 preachman1647 sermonizer1651 pulpitarian1654 pulpiter1681 predicatory1686 preacher man1848 preach1955 1686 J. S. Hist. Monastical Convent. 55 The main design of their Institution being to Read, Preach, Write, and Expound the Word of God, which gives the occasion of naming them Prædicants or Prædicatories. 1999 Washington Post (Nexis) 4 Sept. b9 Many people..are unaware of the position officially called ‘predicatory of the pontifical household’... Since 1743 [it] has been filled by a member of the Friars Minor Capuchin, a branch of the Franciscans known for their preaching ability. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1611 |
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