| 单词 | right reverend father |
| 释义 | > as lemmasRight Reverend Father (in God) d. In formal designations for a bishop, as Reverend Father, Right Reverend Father (in God), †worshipful father (in God). Similarly in formal designations for an archbishop, as Most Reverend Father (in God). Now chiefly Roman Catholic Church. [Compare post-classical Latin reverendissimus pater, reverentissimus pater (from 8th century in British sources).] ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > archbishop > [noun] archbishopc885 erchevesque?a1400 father1418 arch-flamena1530 archbish1560 hierarch1574 arch-prelate1597 grace1625 society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > bishop > [noun] bishopc897 patriarcheOE bispa1300 ordinarya1325 ordinar?1403 father1418 discretion1421 pontificalc1440 diocesanc1450 rocheter1559 monseigneur1561 pope1563 bite-sheep1570 presul1577 rochet1581 diocesser1606 lawn sleevesc1640 episcopant1641 Right Reverend1681 diocesian1686 lawn-man1795 diocesiarch1805 bish1875 shire-bishop1880 1418 in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 294 (MED) Worshipful fader yn god, right trusty and welbeloued. We grete yow wel. 1448 in S. A. Moore Lett. & Papers J. Shillingford (1871) 39 (MED) Please hit yn to youre..Lordship..to write unto the right reverend fader yn God..Edmund Bysshop of the Cathedrall churche of Excetre. 1473–4 Rolls of Parl.: Edward IV (Electronic ed.) Parl. Oct. 1472 2nd Roll §10. m. 16 That worshipfull fader William Wykeham, sumtyme bisshop of Wynchestre. 1508 J. Fisher Treat. Penyt. Psalmes sig. aa This treatise..was..compyled by the ryght reuerente fader in god Iohan fyssher..bysshop of Rochester. ?1521 J. Fisher Serm. agayn Luther (title page) Ye most reuerend fader in god ye lord Thomas Cardinal of Yorke. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III iii. vii. 61 He is within with two right reuerend fathers, Diuinely bent to meditation. View more context for this quotation 1628 Churchwardens' Accts. St. Margaret's, Westm. in J. Nichols Illustr. Manners & Expences Antient Times (1797) 38 Item, of the Right Reverend Father in God the Lord Bishop of Winchester. 1682 D. Abercromby Protestancy to be Embrac'd Ded. sig. A2 To the Right Reverend Father in God, Henry, Lord Bishop of London, Dean of His Majesties Chappel. 1715 ‘C. Dodd’ Secret Policy Eng. Society of Jesus 152 You also, reverend Father, have a sensible rap over the Knuckles in the same Brief. 1772 T. Nugent tr. J. F. de Isla Hist. Friar Gerund I. 370 God forgive his Gravityship the very Reverend Father Provincial. 1838 J. H. Ingraham Burton I. i. vi. 89 She says to me, with much sighing and whispering, ‘Reverend father, [etc.]’. 1893 Catholic Dict. (new ed.) 590/1 The Very Reverend Father Colin died..at the age of eighty-five. 1901 Times 16 Mar. 8/1 The King has been pleased to appoint the Right Reverend Father in God Randall, Bishop of Winchester, to be Clerk of the Closet. 1934 Sewanee Rev. 42 350 An earnest group of scholars, laboring under the watchful eye of the Right Reverend Father in God, Bishop Lancelot Andrewes. 1954 Times 13 Sept. 8/4 A telegram from the Pope, signed by Archbishop Montini, has been sent to the Most Rev. Father K. Lynch. 2009 B. Mitchell tr. G. Grass Tin Drum 123 Mama..entered the Church of the Sacred Heart each Saturday and confessed to the Right Reverend Father [Ger. Hochwürden] Wiehnke. < as lemmas |
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