单词 | purgatorian |
释义 | purgatoriann.adj. In early use chiefly depreciative. 1. A person who accepts the Christian doctrine of purgatory. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > hell > [noun] > purgatory > believer in purgatorianc1540 c1540 Image Ipocrysy iv, in J. Skelton Poet. Wks. (1843) II. 441 So be ther Sophrans,..Purgatorians, Chalomerians, And Ambrosians. ?1548 J. Bale Image Bothe Churches (new ed.) i. sig. Qv Out of this pestilent smoke came innumerable locustes... These were the dysguysed swarme of cardinals, mitred bisshoppes,..Gregorianes, Purgatorianes [etc.]. 1610 T. Morton Encounter against M. Parsons i. xi. 146 Which doctrine the stomacke of the Purgatorians will in no wise disgest. 1636 R. Baker Meditations & Disquisitions Upon Lords Prayer 125 No more forgiving of trespasses, against the Origenists: No more deliverance from evill, against the Purgatorians. a1708 W. Beveridge Expos. 39 Articles (1710) xxii. 259 These Fathers were no Purgatorians, who so unanimously affirmed the Souls of Saints to go directly from Earth to Heaven, never touching upon Purgatory. 1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1772 I. 362 Johnson: We must either suppose that passage to be metaphorical, or hold with many divines, and all the Purgatorians, that departed souls do not all at once arrive at the utmost perfection. 1839 J. Rogers Antipopopriestian 272 Important to be upheld by the rigid purgatorian. 2. A soul in purgatory. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > hell > [noun] > purgatory > one suffering in penantc1330 purgatorian1605 1605 A. Warren Poore Mans Passions sig. E2v These Purgatorians, though forgot in graue, Ora pro nobis must remembred haue. 1607 R. C. tr. H. Estienne World of Wonders 304 The soules of those poore Purgatorians..returned backe. B. adj. Of or relating to purgatory, purgatorial; (in later use also) relating to or involving prayers for those in purgatory. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > hell > [adjective] > of or relating to purgatory purgatoryc1390 purgatorialc1429 purgative1593 purgatoriana1624 purgatorious1659 a1624 R. Crakanthorpe Vigilius Dormitans (1631) xix. 314 Their Purgatorian fire, their five new-found proper Sacraments, condignity of workes, yea Supererogation, and an armie of like heresies. 1687 Advise to Testholders xi, in Third Coll. Poems (1689) 21/2 When all the Purgatorian flames have past. 1705 R. Blackmore Eliza ii. 43 Those who in Battel fall, who will be few, Direct to Heav'n their Passage shall pursue. No Purgatorian Suff'rings shall retard Their Scenes of Pleasure. 1841 J. H. Newman Tract XC 25 Another doctrine, purgatorian, but not Romish, is that said to be maintained by the Greeks at Florence. 1922 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Jrnl.-Gaz. 7 Nov. 5/3 During the month of November, Purgatorian devotions are held at 9 o'clock on Sunday afternoon. 2005 J. F. Quinn Father Mathew's Crusade ii. 55 The Purgatorian Society was thus neither a teetotal nor an anti-spirits organization. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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