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单词 quoad sacra
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quoad sacraadv.adj.

Brit. /ˌkwəʊad ˈseɪkrə/, /ˌkwəʊad ˈsakrə/, U.S. /ˌkwoʊæd ˈsækrə/, /ˌkwoʊæd ˈseɪkrə/, Scottish English /ˌkwoad ˈsakrə/, /ˌkwɔd ˈsakrə/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin quoad sacra.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin quoad sacra (see quot. 1747 at sense A.) < classical Latin quoad (see quoad prep.) + sacra sacred things (see sacra n.).The phrase is apparently not attested in contextual use in this sense in post-classical Latin. The usual Scots pronunciation is /ˈkwoad/ or /kwɔd ˈsakrə/.
Scots Law.
A. adv.
With respect to religious or pastoral matters; for ecclesiastical (rather than civil) purposes.Used esp. in Scotland with reference to the creation of a new parish, when the original parish remains the unit for civil and administrative purposes. Frequently opposed to quoad civilia. See parish n. 2.
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1747 G. Park Answer Petition Sir William Maxwell 2 Sir William Maxwell by this annexation quoad sacra, is just to be considered in the same Light, as if these words quoad sacra had been left out, and his Lands simply annexed to the Parish of Carmunnock.
1764 J. Erskine Princ. Law Scotl. (ed. 3) v. 55 It sometimes happens, that lands lying at a distance from the kirk to which they originally belonged, are annexed to another nearer kirk, quoad sacra, or in so far as concerns the pastoral charge.
1793 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. V. 542 In 1771, the village was computed to contain 3000 persons, besides 500 more connected quoad sacra.
1825 A. M. Dunlop Treat. Law Scotl. §125 When a part of a parish is disjoined, or annexed, quoad sacra merely [etc.].
1843 Times 10 May 3/5 The persons in question had been appointed to parishes, but only quoad sacra, merely as to pastoral superintendence.
1967 J. T. McNeill Hist. & Char. Calvinism xxi. 361 In January 1843 the ‘Chapel Act’ of the Assembly, authorizing the giving of full status to churches for unchurched areas as constituting parishes quoad sacra, was also declared invalid.
1983 C. G. Booth Islay Notebk. (Islay Museums Trust) (BNC) 22 Since the Parliamentary Churches..were erected into parishes quoad sacra, the minister at Portheven baptizes and marries without having the names of the parties entered in the parish register.
B. adj.
Of a church, parish, minister, etc.: constituted or appointed for religious (rather than civil) purposes; of or relating to this.
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1842 Times 21 Apr. 6/6 In the quoad sacra parish church of Thornhill, ten miles from Stirling, a disgraceful scene happened.
1882 J. Cunningham Church Hist. (ed. 2) xxx. 534 The quoad sacra ministers in general lost nothing by the Secession.
1905 T. Burns Benefice Lect. 71 There is this peculiarity about the stipends of the typical country parish that they do not depend on the financial prosperity or liberality of the congregation, as is the case in quoad sacra parishes.
1948 J. T. Cox Pract. Church Scotl. 644 A Petition for the Erection of a Church extension charge into a Church and Parish Quoad Sacra shall be made to the General Assembly at the instance of the Minister and the provisional Kirk Session.
1993 S. J. Brown in S. J. Brown & M. Fry Scotl. in Age of Disruption 1. 7 By the Chapels Act of 1834, the General Assembly gave chapels-of-ease status as quoad sacra parish churches—that is, churches with spiritual jurisdiction over defined territorial districts.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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