单词 | pulpit bible |
释义 | > as lemmaspulpit bible c. In the sense ‘of or belonging to a pulpit’, as pulpit bible, pulpit cushion, pulpit door, pulpit stairs, etc. ΚΠ 1560 in R. Adam Edinb. Rec. (1899) II. 97 Thre lang wedis to the pulpet heid, foure boltis to the fute. 1574 Edinb. Dean of Guild Accts. 39 For sex keis to the poupet dowre ix s. ij d. 1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 49 A beaten-out pulpit cushion. 1641 in Hist. MSS Comm.: MSS Duke of Rutland (1905) IV. 531 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 2606) LXIII. 301 Payd for the pulpet velvet and the velvet of the carriag, xli. xvjs. 1709 Answ. Sacheverell 10 He brought this Archness down the Pulpit Stairs with him. 1725 New-Eng. Courant 3–10 July 2/2 Some evil minded Persons carry'd into the Presbyterian Meeting House..a stinking Sturgeon..and laid it on the Pulpit Floor. 1826 W. Scott Woodstock I. i. 13 Strangled on the pulpit stairs by this man of buff and Belial. 1885 T. Morley Reminisc. II. cxxviii. 462 Many a clergyman, upon mounting his pulpit steps..suddenly remembered that there was nothing about Christ in his sermon. 1985 Word in Action Spring 5/2 A range of materials was sold, from New Reader booklets to a pulpit Bible. 2003 Port Hope (Ont.) Evening Guide (Nexis) 27 June 19 The minister picked up from the pulpit floor a rag doll. < as lemmas |
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