proseuchan.

Brit.

/prɒˈsjuːkə/, U.S.

/prɑˈs(j)ukə/

Inflections: Plural proseuchæ, (rare) proseucha's.

Forms: 1600s– proseucha, 1900s– proseuche.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly a borrowing from Greek. Etymons: Latin proseucha; Greek προσευχή.

Etymology: < classical Latin proseucha Jewish meeting-place for prayer (Juvenal) and its etymon Hellenistic Greek προσευχή prayer, place of prayer, synagogue < ancient Greek προσεύχεσθαι to offer prayers < πρός toward (see prosody n.) + εὔχεσθαι to pray (see euctical adj.). Compare French proseuque (1752).In Hellenistic Greek apparently a Christian term for a Jewish place of prayer: compare Acts 16:13.

Chiefly historical.

A place of prayer; an oratory; spec. a place set apart for Jewish worship, usually unroofed and of simple design.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > artefacts > division of building (general) > oratory > [noun]

bead-housec1160

oratorya1382

oratourc1400

oraculum1565

proseucha1602

1602 T. Lodge tr. Josephus Wks. 545 The next day therefore all of them assembled in the Proseucha or Oratorie, which was an ample house wherein they prayed, and was able to containe a great multitude.

a1638 J. Mede Wks. (1672) 66 Proseucha was a plot of ground encompassed with a wall or..other..inclosure, and open above... A Synagogue was..a covered edifice... Synagogues were within the Cities, as Proseucha's were without.

1737 J. Home Script. Hist. Jews II. iii. 168 That the Jews had their Proseuchæ in foreign Countries where they resided, as well as in Judæa,..is evident.

1852 W. J. Conybeare & J. S. Howson Life & Epist. St. Paul I. vi. 184 All gradations..from the simple proseucha at Philippi to the magnificent prayer-houses at Alexandria.

1879 J. Martineau Hours of Thought (1880) II. 345 The unadorned proseucha that sufficed for apostolic disciples.

1936 Harvard Theol. Rev. 29 69 Theos Hypsistos is known in Egypt from the dedication of a Jewish proseucha in the second century B.C.

1981 R. Scruton Fortnight's Anger iv. 104 The room had the air of a proseuche: it seemed as though one should kneel at the little desk, and bow one's head before the photograph of the family at Weymouth.

1998 D. Noy in M. Goodman Jews in Graeco-Roman World ii. vi. 82 A pagan epitaph from Rome referring to a proseucha seems to belong to the first or second century,..suggesting the existence of synagogues..by that date.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	proseucha
释义	proseuchan. Brit. /prɒˈsjuːkə/, U.S. /prɑˈs(j)ukə/ Inflections: Plural proseuchæ, (rare) proseucha's. Forms: 1600s– proseucha, 1900s– proseuche. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly a borrowing from Greek. Etymons: Latin proseucha; Greek προσευχή. Etymology: < classical Latin proseucha Jewish meeting-place for prayer (Juvenal) and its etymon Hellenistic Greek προσευχή prayer, place of prayer, synagogue < ancient Greek προσεύχεσθαι to offer prayers < πρός toward (see prosody n.) + εὔχεσθαι to pray (see euctical adj.). Compare French proseuque (1752).In Hellenistic Greek apparently a Christian term for a Jewish place of prayer: compare Acts 16:13. Chiefly historical. A place of prayer; an oratory; spec. a place set apart for Jewish worship, usually unroofed and of simple design. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > division of building (general) > oratory > [noun] bead-housec1160 oratorya1382 oratourc1400 oraculum1565 proseucha1602 1602 T. Lodge tr. Josephus Wks. 545 The next day therefore all of them assembled in the Proseucha or Oratorie, which was an ample house wherein they prayed, and was able to containe a great multitude. a1638 J. Mede Wks. (1672) 66 Proseucha was a plot of ground encompassed with a wall or..other..inclosure, and open above... A Synagogue was..a covered edifice... Synagogues were within the Cities, as Proseucha's were without. 1737 J. Home Script. Hist. Jews II. iii. 168 That the Jews had their Proseuchæ in foreign Countries where they resided, as well as in Judæa,..is evident. 1852 W. J. Conybeare & J. S. Howson Life & Epist. St. Paul I. vi. 184 All gradations..from the simple proseucha at Philippi to the magnificent prayer-houses at Alexandria. 1879 J. Martineau Hours of Thought (1880) II. 345 The unadorned proseucha that sufficed for apostolic disciples. 1936 Harvard Theol. Rev. 29 69 Theos Hypsistos is known in Egypt from the dedication of a Jewish proseucha in the second century B.C. 1981 R. Scruton Fortnight's Anger iv. 104 The room had the air of a proseuche: it seemed as though one should kneel at the little desk, and bow one's head before the photograph of the family at Weymouth. 1998 D. Noy in M. Goodman Jews in Graeco-Roman World ii. vi. 82 A pagan epitaph from Rome referring to a proseucha seems to belong to the first or second century,..suggesting the existence of synagogues..by that date. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1602
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