单词 | beghard |
释义 | Beghardn. A name given to the members of certain lay brotherhoods which arose in the Low Countries early in the 13th cent., subsequent to, and in imitation of, the female Beguine n.1 ‘They took no vow, and were allowed to leave the company when they liked.’ The name is said soon to have been adopted by many who were simply idle mendicants: see beggar n. From the 14th cent. they were denounced by Popes and Councils, and persecuted by the Inquisition. In the 17th cent. such of them as still survived were absorbed in the Tertiarii of the Franciscans. (The name was sometimes thrown abusively at other ‘heretics,’ as the Albigenses and Waldenses.) ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > monasticism > religious order > other religions > Beghard > [noun] beggarc1384 Beguine1483 Beghard1656 1656 H. More Enthusiasmus Triumphatus 23 That religious sect of the Beguardi. 1764 A. Maclaine tr. J. L. von Mosheim Eccl. Hist. (1844) I. 333/2 (note) The denominations Beghards and Beguines were given to above thirty sects or orders, which differed widely from each other in their opinions, their discipline, and manner of living. 1782 J. Priestley Hist. Corruptions Christianity I. i. 7 The early reformers from popery got the name of Beghards. 1829 R. Southey Sir Thomas More II. 329 Both Beghards and Beguines, throughout Germany, very generally became Lutherans. 1863 J. Ludlow in Good Words July 497/2 So complete was the change, that the very name of béghard..surviving in our beggar, has come to designate clamorous pauperism. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1656 |
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