| 单词 | reading minister |
| 释义 | > as lemmasreading minister reading minister n. now historical a minister who reads the lessons or service without preaching (cf. lay reader n. at lay adj. and n.9 Compounds 1, reader n. 3). Also Scottish: a minister who reads out sermons rather than preaching extempore or from memory; cf. read v. 17b. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > [noun] God's maneOE priestOE clerkc1050 secularc1290 vicary1303 minister1340 divinec1380 man of Godc1384 kirkmana1400 man of the churchc1400 cockc1405 Ecclesiastc1405 spiritual1441 ministrator1450 abbé1530 reverend1547 churchman1549 tippet-captain?1550 tippet knight1551 tippet man1551 public minister1564 reading minister1572 clergyman1577 clerk1577 padre1584 minstrel1586 spiritual1600 cleric1623 cassock1628 Levite1640 gownsman1641 teaching elder1642 ecclesiastic1651 religionist1651 crape1682 crape-gown-man1682 man in black1692 soul driver1699 secularist1716 autem jet1737 liturge1737 officiant1740 snub-devil1785 soul doctor1785 officiator1801 umfundisi1825 crape-man1826 clerical1837 God-man1842 Pfarrer1844 liturgist1848 white-choker1851 rook1859 shovel hat1859 sky pilot1865 ecclesiastical1883 joss-pidgin-man1886 josser1887 sin-shiftera1912 sin-buster1931 parch1944 the mind > language > speech > speech-making > recitation > [noun] > reading aloud > one who readerOE reading minister1572 anagnost1601 anagnostic1623 anagnostian1625 reader-aloud1830 lectrice1889 1572Reading minister [see main sense]. 1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. K4v It were to be wished that all were preaching prelates, and not reading ministers only. 1615 T. Cooper Art of Giving xx. 57 Why will not a reading Minister serue the turne, who will serue for lesse? 1650 in J. Hodgson Hist. Northumberland: Pt. III (1835) III. iii. p. lv Those who formerly had the Rectory of Haltwistle did mainteyne a reading Minister. 1676 R. Williams George Fox Digg'd out of his Burrowes 76 Without this searching for the Sence and meaning, the Pith and Marrow of the holy Scriptures, or any other Scriptures or Writings we make use of, what are our Readings but the Papists Latine, the reading Ministers, the pratling of Children and Parrets? 1744 R. MacKenzie (title) Reading no preaching, or a letter to a young clergyman. 1853 W. Robins Paddington: Past & Present ii. 126 The pay of his ‘reading minister’ may astonish those who do not remember the account given..of the condition of the great majority of the clergy in the seventeenth century. 1884 G. G. Perry Hist. Eng. Church xxi. 340 The archdeacon and ordinaries were to allow a reading minister, if they judged him competent, to expound, standing in his stall, the points of the catechism. 1956 C. Hill Econ. Probl. Church i. iv. 51 In 1573 Cartwright complained that this gave security of tenure to any reading minister, however incompetent: and Whitgift in reply defended the minister's rights. < as lemmas |
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