sacramentn.

/ˈsakrəmənt/

Forms: Middle English–1500s sacrement, (plural Middle English sacramens, Middle English sacramenz, sacremenz, Middle English sacremens), Middle English sakermente, Middle English sacramen, sacriment, sakyr-, sacurment, Middle English–1500s sacramente, Middle English– sacrament.

Etymology: < French sacrement (12th cent. in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter), < Latin sacrāmentum (whence the French popular form serment oath), < sacrāre to consecrate, set apart religiously, to secure by a religious sanction, < sacr- , sacer holy, dedicated, set apart: see sacred adj.In accordance with the functions of the suffix -mentum (see -ment suffix), the etymological sense of Latin sacrāmentum would be either (1) a result of consecration, or (2) a means of consecrating, dedicating, or securing by a religious sanction. The latter of these notions is that which seems to be ent in the classical uses of the word: (1) the military oath, oath or solemn engagement in general; (2) the caution-money deposited by the parties to a lawsuit; hence (3) a civil suit or process. In Christian Latin from the 3rd century the word was the accepted rendering of Greek μυστήριον mystery n.¹ This use is evidently not based on either of the specific applications above mentioned, but is the result of a recourse to the etymological meaning. In early Christian language sacramentum and the synonymous μυστήριον were applied indiscriminately to any ritual observance of the Church, or to any spiritually symbolic act or object; but they were also often applied in an eminent sense to the two most important observances, baptism and the Lord's Supper or Eucharist. For the later history of the use, see below in sense 1.

a. Ecclesiastical. Used as the common name for certain solemn ceremonies or religious acts belonging to the institutions of the Christian church.The English use before the Reformation adopts the enumeration of seven sacraments (believed to have been first formulated by Peter Lombard in the 12th cent.; the same list is recognized in the Eastern Churches): viz., Baptism, Confirmation, the Eucharist, Penance, Extreme Unction, Order, Matrimony. As late as the 14th cent., however, there were still traces in English of the wider application of the word formerly current; while the seven sacraments were viewed as eminently entitled to the name, it could be applied in a more general sense to certain other rites (see quot. c1315). From the 16th cent., Protestants generally have recognized two sacraments only, viz. baptism and the Lord's Supper.The formal definition of sacrament n. depends on the answer to the question what is the distinctive feature common to the seven or to the two ‘sacraments’, on account of which they form a separate class from all other observances. Those who accept the number seven, and many of those who admit only two sacraments, say that the sacraments differ from other rites in being channels by which supernatural grace is imparted. By those Protestants who deny that baptism and the Lord's Supper in themselves convey supernatural grace, the specific difference of the ‘sacraments’ from other observances is regarded as consisting in their paramount obligation as having been expressly commanded by Christ Himself, and in the special spiritual benefits obtainable by their faithful use.By some of the English Puritans and Nonconformists, the word was avoided as being associated with opinions regarded by them as superstitious; the usual term applied by them to baptism and the Lord's Supper was ordinance.

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society > faith > worship > sacrament > [noun]

sacramentc1175

mystery?a1425

c1175 Lamb. Hom. 51 Þe halie sacramens þe me sacreð in alesnesse of alla sunfulle.

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 196 Al þet hali chirche deð red oðer singeð. & alle hire sacramenz strengeð ow gastliche.

c1315 Shoreham i. 183 Al hit beþ cherche sacremens Þet tokeneþ holi þynges, As hali water, and haly bred, Liȝt, and belryngynges To leste; And of alle oþer sacremens Þes seuene beþ þe greste.

1340 Ayenbite (1866) 14 Þe zeve sacremens þet byeþ ine holy cherche.

c1386 G. Chaucer Merchant's Tale 75 Mariage is a ful greet sacrement.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 12894 A! Ion..nan was worthier þan þou Hand to lai on suete iesu, To giue him þat hali sacrament.

c1440 Alphabet of Tales 186 He tuke his sacramentis of holy kurk and dyed.

1460–1 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Oct. 1460 375/2 By the sacrament of matrymonie.

c1460 Wisdom 1115 in Macro Plays 72 Ande now ye be reformyde by þe sakyrment of penaunce.

c1475 Harl. Contin. Higden (Rolls) VIII. 491 A pestilence..folowede soone after at Cantebrigge, causynge moche peple to dye as sodenly as madde men withowte the sacramentes of the churche.

1509 J. Fisher Serm. Henry VIJ (de Worde) sig. Aiiij^v The true beleue y^t he had in god, in his chirche & in the sacramentes therof, whiche he receyued all w^t merueylous deuocion, namely in the sacrament of penaunce, the sacrament of y^e auter, & the sacrament of anelynge.

1604 Bk. Common Prayer Catechism Q. What meanest thou by this word Sacrament? A. I mean an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace given unto us [etc.].

1657 T. Aylesbury Treat. Confession of Sinne iv. 49 The Sacrament of Penance will supply all other defects.

1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 73 [They suffered] the Sacraments themselves to be administer'd where the People had most mind to receive them.

1864 J. H. Newman Apologia 416 The fact of a parishioner dying without the Sacraments through his fault is terrible to him.

b. in sacrament: sacramentally. rare.

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society > faith > worship > sacrament > [adverb]

sacramentallyc1380

sacramentlyc1425

in sacrament1628

1628 Field's Of Church (ed. 2) iii. App. 205 The crucified body of Christ thy sonne, which is here present in mystery, and sacrament.

a. spec. (with the). The Lord's Supper, Eucharist or Holy Communion. Often called the sacrament of the altar, the Blessed Sacrament, and (esp. formerly) the Holy Sacrament. to receive, take the sacrament, to communicate.

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society > faith > worship > sacrament > communion > [noun]

massOE

servicelOE

sacrament?c1225

table1340

commoningc1384

the Lord's Supperc1384

Eucharista1400

oblation?a1425

communion1440

sacrifice?1504

Lord's Table1533

Maundy1533

the Supper?1548

unbloody sacrifice1548

mystery1549

communication1550

banquet1563

liturgy1564

table service1593

synaxis1625

mysteriousness1650

second service1655

nagmaal1833

ordinance1854

table prayer1858

society > faith > worship > sacrament > communion > receive communion [phrase]

houselOE

to receive, take the sacrament?c1225

to receive one's Savioura1425

to take (also deliver, receive) (the) communion1440

to receive (also take) one's Maker1539

the mind > language > statement > assurance, confirmation, or guarantee > assure, confirm, or guarantee [verb (intransitive)] > receive Holy Communion

to receive, take the sacrament1610

society > faith > worship > sacrament > communion > receive communion [phrase] > as oath

to receive, take the sacrament1610

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 195 Al þe deofles strencðe Malteð þurch þe grace of þe hali sacrament..þet ȝe seoð as ofte as þe preost messeð þe maidenes bearn Iesu.

1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 10198 Þe folk þat to þe preste went For to receyue þe sacrament.

a1340 R. Rolle Psalter vi. 1 Comunynge of sacrament of þe autere.

1340 Ayenbite (1866) 14 Þe sacrement of þe wyefde.

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 231 He ordeynede..þat þe grayel and þe offertorie schulde be i-seide to fore þe sacrement [L. ante sacrificium].

c1440 Alphabet of Tales 339 He had a gude frend, a preste, þat said a mes for hym and offred þe sacrament for hym.

1509 J. Fisher Serm. Henry VIJ (de Worde) sig. Aiv^v The sacrament of the auter he receyued at mydlent, & agayne vpon eester day.

a1513 W. Dunbar Tabill of Confessioun in Poems (1998) I. 270 Anis in the ȝer to tak the sacrament.

1534 T. More Treat. Passion in Wks. 1337/2 Onelye this blessed sacrament is called and knowne by the name of sacrament alone.

1610 R. Field Fifth Bk. of Church App. i. 34 The true presence of Christs body & blood in the blessed Sacrament.

1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 73 The obliging all Persons to come up to those Rails to receive the Sacrament.

1712 J. Arbuthnot John Bull Still in Senses viii. 39 They never had a quiet Night's rest, for getting up in the Morning to early Sacraments.

1804 R. Southey in Ann. Rev. 2 202 They received the sacrament weekly.

1848 A. Alison Hist. Europe from French Revol. (ed. 7) IV. xiv. 136 A courageous priest..at the hazard of his life, often administered to her the sacrament.

b. The consecrated elements, esp. the bread or Host.

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society > faith > artefacts > consumables > eucharistic elements > [noun]

houseleOE

bread and winea1225

sacrament?c1225

sacringc1290

spicec1425

kind?1531

Eucharistc1540

element1556

species1579

elemental1656

mystery1662

symbol1671

waybread1993

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 56 Vt þurch þe chirche þurl ne halde tale wið nan mon. ach beoreð þerto wurðmund for þe hali sacrement þe ȝe nomeð þer þurch.

1395 J. Purvey Remonstr. (1851) 40 The sacrament of the auteer, which is whight and round, visible and palpable.

1419 in S. Bentley Excerpt. Hist. (1831) 30 The box or vessell in the whiche the precious sacrement is in.

1549 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16267) Svpper of the Lorde f. cxxviii^v Without any eleuacion, or shewing the Sacrament to the people.

1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 216 The people never behold the blessed Sacrament, but they bow their face to the ground.

a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1645 (1955) II. 384 The Sacrament being this day exposd, & the Reliques of st. Crosses.

c. to take or receive the sacrament (to do something, or upon a matter): to receive Holy Communion as a confirmation of one's word.

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1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III i. iv. 198 Thou didst receiue the holy sacrament, To fight.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) iv. ii. 28 Ten thousand French haue tane the Sacrament, To ryue their dangerous Artillerie Vpon no Christian soule but English Talbot.

a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) iv. iii. 140 Ile take the Sacrament on't.

1681 Arraignm.,Tryal & Condemnation S. Colledge 65 Mr. Lun. I will take the Sacrament upon it, what I say is true.

1691 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) II. 191 The Irish under col. Clifford had took the sacrament to fight it out to the last man.

1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones I. ii. vi. 125 Notwithstanding the Positiveness of Mrs Partridge, who would have taken the Sacrament upon the Matter, there is a Possibility that the Schoolmaster was entirely innocent.

1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones VI. xvii. iv. 118 If it will satisfy you, I will receive the Sacrament upon it, never to see his Face again.

1876 Ld. Tennyson Harold iv. i. 106 Harold. Morcar and Edwin, will ye upon oath, Help us against the Norman? Morcar. With good will; Yea, take the Sacrament upon it, king.

†d. used in oaths. Obsolete.

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1568 (?a1513) W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 252 Ane fleschour swoir be the sacrament And be Chrystis blud maist innocent, Nevir fatter flesch saw man with e.

1573 New Custome i. ii. sig. B iv Sacrament of God, who hath hearde suche a knaue?

1575 W. Stevenson Gammer Gurtons Nedle i. iii. sig. Aiii^v Gogs sacrament, I would she had lost, tharte out of her bellie.

e. the last sacraments, Holy Communion and Extreme Unction administered to the dying; (see also quot. 1920); the sacrament of the sick, in the Roman Catholic Church, Extreme Unction (now officially termed the Anointing of the Sick).

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society > faith > worship > sacrament > (extreme) unction > [noun] > of the sick or dying

last elingc1315

anelingc1350

last anointing1357

extreme unction1477

the Anointing of the Sick1575

last rites1594

chrism1635

the last sacraments1760

the sacrament of the sick1972

1760 in J. O. Payne Old English Catholic Missions (1889) 29 Jan. 7 William Hornby died at Middleham. He had the last sacraments.

1893 E. Bellasis Mem. Serjeant Bellasis viii. 184 He left him..to go and tell the Curé..that the Serjeant ought to have the last Sacraments without delay.

1920 Encycl. Relig. & Ethics XI. 574/1 At Cwm Yoy, in the Black Mountain, on the way to Llanthony, the people have at a funeral what they call ‘the Last Sacrament’. The coffin is brought out and placed on trestles, and beer and cake are then partaken of by the guests and persons assembled.., before the funeral procession starts.

1966 ‘Han Suyin’ Mortal Flower i. 41 The priest..with a Chinese choir boy holding the implements of Extreme Unction,..myself and my sisters assembled in Father's hospital room, to witness..the last sacraments of the Church.

1972 S. Tugwell Did you receive Spirit? xi. 98 It is painful,..and at times comic, to read the Fathers of Trent arguing about the sacrament of the sick.

1975 N.Y. Times 26 Oct. 1/5 A mass was held in the Prado Palace at which he [sc. Franco] took communion and received the sacrament of the sick, a religious ritual that used to be known as the last rites.

1981 Church Times 4 Sept. 9/4 He was the priest in the famous photograph giving the Last Sacraments (a term seldom used now) to the wounded and dying on what the Irish call ‘Bloody Sunday’.

3. In widened application:

a. Something likened to the recognized sacraments, as having a sacred character or function; a sacred seal set upon some part of man's life; the pledge of a covenant between God and man.

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society > faith > worship > sacrament > [noun] > something analogous

sacramenta1340

sacramental1529

the mind > language > speech > agreement > [noun] > an agreement

forewardOE

accordc1275

covenant1297

end1297

form1297

frettec1330

conjurationc1374

treatc1380

bargainc1386

contractc1386

comenaunt1389

compositionc1405

treaty1427

pact1429

paction1440

reconventionc1449

treatisea1464

hostage1470

packa1475

trystc1480

bond (also band) of manrent1482

covenance1484

concordance1490

patisement1529

capitulation1535

conventmenta1547

convenience1551

compact1555

negotiation1563

sacrament1563

match1569

consortship1592

after-agreementa1600

combourgeoisie1602

convention1603

comburghership1606

transaction1611

end-makingc1613

obligement1627

bare contract1641

stipulation1649

accompackmentc1650

rue-bargaina1657

concordat1683

minute1720

tacka1758

understanding1803

meet1804

it's a go1821

deal1863

whizz1869

stand-in1870

gentlemen's agreement1880

meeting of minds1883

the mind > language > speech > agreement > promise > [noun] > bond or covenant

bond1330

covenant1377

forthwarda1400

handbanda1400

banda1440

specialty1606

sacrament1679

a1340 R. Rolle Psalter xvii. 1 Þis psalme contens þe sacrament of all chosen men.

1399 J. Gower In Praise of Peace 309 The pes is as it were a sacrement Tofore the god.

1563 2nd Tome Homelyes Common Prayer & Sacram. 146 b And so was circumcision a sacrament, whiche preached vnto the out~warde senses the inwarde cuttyng away of the foreskyn of the harte, and sealed and made sure in the hartes of the circumcised, the promise of god.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 42 Hereunto the Lord addeth the Rainbow, a new Sacrament, to seale his mercifull Couenant with the earth, not to drowne the same any more.

1679 J. Crowne Ambitious Statesman iv. 65 Nature give's man a Sacrament, In his own blood, never to hurt a Woman.

1841 R. W. Emerson Man Reformer in Lect. in Wks. (1906) II. 243 Economy is a high, humane office, a sacrament, when its aim is grand.

1899 W. R. Inge Christian Mysticism vii. 258 To the true mystic, life itself is a sacrament.

b. A type, token, sign, or symbol. Const. of.Derived from the accepted definition of a sacrament as a ‘sign of grace’. Quot. 1660 exhibits an attempt to assign to the word a general sense in which the specific applications are included.

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society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > symbolizing > [noun] > a symbol

tokeningc888

tokenc890

print1340

bannerc1380

signingc1390

signala1393

signc1400

similitude?c1400

type?a1500

sacrament1534

resemblance1548

adumbration1552

character1569

picture1580

symbol1590

moral?1594

attribute1600

symbolization1603

allegory1606

emblema1616

hieroglyph1646

simile1682

documentor1684

symptoma1687

monument1728

metaphor1836

presentation1866

symbolisms1876

ideogram1897

picture message1912

figura1959

1534 T. More Treat. Passion in Wks. 1331/1 For they make theym wene, that..it is none other but a bare sacrament onelye, that is to wytte a token, a figure, a sygne or memoriall of his bodye and hys bloude crucified and shed.

1563 2nd Tome Homelyes Repair. Church 85 The Temple..was a figure, a Sacrament, or a signification of Christe.

1660 Bp. J. Taylor Worthy Communicant i. §3. 61 When Jonathan shot his arrows beyond the boys, he then by a sacrament sent salvation unto David.

1875 E. White Life in Christ (1876) iv. xxvii. 486 This second death is never set forth as a sacrament of immortality.

1904 A. R. Whitham Epist. Consolations vii. 87 Doubtless also those mysterious contents of the inner sanctuary..were copies of heavenly realities..; signs and sacraments they must have been of God's mercy and justice.

c. A mystery; something secret or having a secret meaning. [After Latin sacramentum, used by Tertullian and in the Old Latin and Vulgate Bibles as a rendering of μυστήριον.]

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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > a profound secret, mystery > [noun]

rounOE

mysteryc1384

sacramentc1384

secrec1386

secret1390

riddlec1400

concealment1598

arcanum1605

Sphinxa1610

abstrusity1632

cryptic1663

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Dan. ii. 30 This sacrament, or hid trewthe [L. sacramentum hoc].

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 1 Tim. iii. 16 And opynly it is a greet sacrament of pite.

1388 Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) Rev. i. 20 The sacrament [1382 mysterie, or priuytee] of the seuene sterris.

c1400 tr. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. 51 God..make cleer ȝoure vnderstondynge to persayue þe sacrament of þis science.

a1600 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. App. 1 in Wks. (1836) II. 698 In a word sacraments are God's secrets, discovered to none but his own people.

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes Ep. Ded. sig. A4^v Seeing God hath vsed them as Sacraments or Mysteries to containe his will.

1867 Manning in Ess. Relig. & Lit. II. 362 All the words of Scripture are so many sacraments (or mysteries).

d. sacrament of the present moment, any and every moment regarded as an opportunity for the reception of divine grace.

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society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > grace > [noun] > time for reception of

sacrament of the present moment1921

1921 E. J. Strickland tr. De Caussade Abandonm. to Divine Providence i. i. 3 What treasures of grace lie concealed in these moments filled, apparently, by the most ordinary events... O Bread of Angels! heavenly manna!.. Sacrament of the present moment!

1930 J. Chapman Spiritual Lett. (1935) 83 The whole point of the ‘Sacrament of the present moment’ is that it is a..sacrament; it is God's action, God's will.

1943 O. Wyon School of Prayer iii. 38 God makes His will known to us through the things that happen every day... Once we see it, our whole life is lifted on to a higher plane. This way of living has been described as The Sacrament of the Present Moment.

1967 J. N. Ward Use of Praying iii. 36 There is the use of the ‘Jesus Prayer’... There is the cultivation of the ‘sacrament of the present moment’.

1979 Tablet 22/ 29 Dec. 1251/2 We miss the many-splendoured thing in the goings-on of daily life, but it is there, totally transforming it and bestowing the sacrament of the present moment on those who are willing to accept it.

4. An oath or solemn engagement, esp. one which is ratified by a rite. (Chiefly as a Latinism.)

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the mind > language > speech > agreement > promise > [noun] > vow or oath

hesta1200

vow1297

professionc1300

sermenta1325

avow1330

sacrament1430

votec1540

troth-plight1570

upon my Sam1939

advower-

1430–40 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1494) viii. xv[i]. D iv He dyd varye From his promyse made by sacremente.

1461 Rolls of Parl. V. 483/1 And tofore theym make ooth and Sacrament convenient, to be true and lowly Subgettes.

1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer i. f. cccxxxii This..haue I sayde for no harme ne malyce of tho persones, but onely for trouthe of my sacrament in my leigeaunce.

c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 703 Here I aske you hertely þat ye may het here, With a solemne sacrement on þis sure gode, All þe forward to fulfille, þat ye first made.

1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene v. i. sig. N^v This doubtfull causes right Can hardly but by Sacrament be tride, Or else by ordele, or by blooddy fight.

1611 B. Jonson Catiline i. sig. C3 Nothing wants then, But that we take a solemne Sacrament, To strengthen our designe.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. vii. 25 Nor are the deepest sacraments or desperate imprecations of any force to perswade where reason only, and necessary mediums must induce.

1752 E. Young Brothers ii. i Those whom I swore, before they parted hence, In dreadful sacraments of wine and blood, To bring back such reports, as shou'd destroy him.

1801 E. Helme St. Margaret's Cave I. vi. 71 An infant, at whose baptism she [as sponsor] had taken a sacrament, to sustain and instruct in the best manner she was able.

1832 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 32 609 Bound by no sacrament of military obedience to the state.

1890 R. Bridges Shorter Poems i. 7 Have not the young flowers been content, Plucked ere their buds could blow, To seal our sacrament?

5. Roman Law. The sacramentum or pledge which each of the parties deposited or became bound for before beginning a suit.

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the mind > language > speech > agreement > promise > [noun] > pledge or assurance > particular type of

assumpsit1586

del credere1682

peace pledge1857

sacrament1880

1880 J. Muirhead tr. Gaius Institutes iv. 270 The procedure in those legis actiones was in one or other of five modes,—by sacrament, by petition for a judge, [etc.].

1886 J. Muirhead in Encycl. Brit. XX. 682/1 He required sureties from the parties for the eventual payment by him who was unsuccessful of the sacrament he had offered to stake.

Compounds

C1. General attributive. (Sense 2.)

sacrament-wine n.

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society > faith > artefacts > consumables > eucharistic elements > wine > [noun]

winec1005

bloodOE

blood of Christc1384

singing wine1558

cup1597

sacrament-wine1698

1698 in 14th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1896) App. iii. 141 Theres a discovery of a designe to have poysoned his Majesty in the sacrament wine on Christmas day.

C2.

† sacrament-box n. Obsolete a pyx.

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society > faith > artefacts > implement (general) > vessel (general) > pyx > [noun]

boxc1325

pyx?a1425

sacrament-boxc1440

custode1510

Eucharist1535

pyxis1536

little Jack1566

altar pyx1605

chrismal1845

Eucharistial1845

custodial1861

c1440 Alphabet of Tales 112 On þe morn sho went vnto þe preste, and askid of hym how many hostis war in þe sacrament-box in þe kurk.

† sacrament-cloth n. Obsolete a cloth or veil for covering the pyx.

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society > faith > artefacts > cloths, carpets, cushions > cloth (general) > eucharistic cloth > [noun] > to cover the pyx

pyx-cloth1485

sacrament-cloth1535

1535–6 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 369 Item, ffor dressyng of ij sacrament Clothes.

1853 D. Rock Church of our Fathers IV. xii. 206 Over the cup itself was cast the Sacrament cloth, or piece of thin, cloud-like muslin,—pannus nebulatus.

sacrament day n. a day on which Holy Communion is celebrated.

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society > faith > worship > liturgical year > Sabbath > [noun] > on which communion celebrated

sacrament day1687

supper-sabbath1690

Sacrament Sunday1768

sacrament Sabbath1816

1687 S. Sewall Diary in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1878) 5th Ser. V. 176 May 15th was our Sacrament-day.

1765 T. Lindsey Let. 1 Nov. in Notes & Queries (1942) 1 Aug. 62/2 Being a sacrament-day, I could but barely ask the former how he did as he went out of the church.

1826 A. Constable Let. 10 Oct. in J. Constable Corr. (1962) 228 Golding din'd with me on Sunday (Sacrament day).

sacrament house n. a tabernacle.

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society > faith > artefacts > furniture > tabernacle > [noun]

tabernacle1487

sacrament house1551

1551 Inscription in Deskford Church, Banffshire in Reliquary (1908) 14 279 This..loveable wark of Sacrament house maid..the yeir of god 1551.

1876 C. Schreiber Jrnl. 16 July (1911) I. 464 Many objects of the rarest interest—a dance of death (1742).., a sacrament house.

1876 C. Schreiber Jrnl. 24 July (1911) 470 I saw a fine Sacrament house, the third I have met with.

1975 A. Maycock Malling Abbey (rev. ed.) 15 The nuns enter their choir from the cloister.., passing..on the right a circular sacrament house on which the light falls from a conical shaft immediately above it.

sacrament-money n. the alms collected at Holy Communion, formerly used as a fund for poor-relief.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > worship > benefice > other financial matters > [noun] > collection > during mass

massing-penny1292

mass groat1551

mass-money1664

sacrament-money1716

1716 Rules Disposal Sacrament-Money 3 In the appropriating all Sacrament Money to the Poor only..they have the concurrent Sense of the whole Church of England..for above an 100 Years after the Reformation.

1860 J. C. Byrne Undercurrents Overlooked II. 77 (note) That fund known as the ‘Sacrament money’ is a relic of this venerable custom.

sacrament Sabbath n. = Sacrament Sunday n.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > worship > liturgical year > Sabbath > [noun] > on which communion celebrated

sacrament day1687

supper-sabbath1690

Sacrament Sunday1768

sacrament Sabbath1816

1816 in Sc. National Dict. (1971) VIII. 3/2 'Twas sacrament Sabbath and much had been laid in.

1957 E. E. Evans Irish Folk Ways xviii. 253 The ‘sacrament Sabbaths’ of Presbyterian Ulster were great gatherings having something of the nature of fairs.

Sacrament Sunday n. the Sunday on which the Lord's Supper is celebrated (in Scotland formerly only once or twice a year).

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > worship > liturgical year > Sabbath > [noun] > on which communion celebrated

sacrament day1687

supper-sabbath1690

Sacrament Sunday1768

sacrament Sabbath1816

1768 J. Woodforde Diary 9 Oct. (1924) I. 80 David Maby..dined with us, being Sacrament Sunday.

1796 C. Simeon in Carus Life (1847) vi. 121 Sunday, 26th.—Sacrament Sunday at Moulin.

1897 ‘I. Maclaren’ Dr. of Old School i. 37 Black he wore once a year, on Sacrament Sunday, and, if possible, at a funeral.

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单词	sacrament
释义	sacramentn. /ˈsakrəmənt/ Forms: Middle English–1500s sacrement, (plural Middle English sacramens, Middle English sacramenz, sacremenz, Middle English sacremens), Middle English sakermente, Middle English sacramen, sacriment, sakyr-, sacurment, Middle English–1500s sacramente, Middle English– sacrament. Etymology: < French sacrement (12th cent. in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter), < Latin sacrāmentum (whence the French popular form serment oath), < sacrāre to consecrate, set apart religiously, to secure by a religious sanction, < sacr- , sacer holy, dedicated, set apart: see sacred adj.In accordance with the functions of the suffix -mentum (see -ment suffix), the etymological sense of Latin sacrāmentum would be either (1) a result of consecration, or (2) a means of consecrating, dedicating, or securing by a religious sanction. The latter of these notions is that which seems to be ent in the classical uses of the word: (1) the military oath, oath or solemn engagement in general; (2) the caution-money deposited by the parties to a lawsuit; hence (3) a civil suit or process. In Christian Latin from the 3rd century the word was the accepted rendering of Greek μυστήριον mystery n.¹ This use is evidently not based on either of the specific applications above mentioned, but is the result of a recourse to the etymological meaning. In early Christian language sacramentum and the synonymous μυστήριον were applied indiscriminately to any ritual observance of the Church, or to any spiritually symbolic act or object; but they were also often applied in an eminent sense to the two most important observances, baptism and the Lord's Supper or Eucharist. For the later history of the use, see below in sense 1. 1. a. Ecclesiastical. Used as the common name for certain solemn ceremonies or religious acts belonging to the institutions of the Christian church.The English use before the Reformation adopts the enumeration of seven sacraments (believed to have been first formulated by Peter Lombard in the 12th cent.; the same list is recognized in the Eastern Churches): viz., Baptism, Confirmation, the Eucharist, Penance, Extreme Unction, Order, Matrimony. As late as the 14th cent., however, there were still traces in English of the wider application of the word formerly current; while the seven sacraments were viewed as eminently entitled to the name, it could be applied in a more general sense to certain other rites (see quot. c1315). From the 16th cent., Protestants generally have recognized two sacraments only, viz. baptism and the Lord's Supper.The formal definition of sacrament n. depends on the answer to the question what is the distinctive feature common to the seven or to the two ‘sacraments’, on account of which they form a separate class from all other observances. Those who accept the number seven, and many of those who admit only two sacraments, say that the sacraments differ from other rites in being channels by which supernatural grace is imparted. By those Protestants who deny that baptism and the Lord's Supper in themselves convey supernatural grace, the specific difference of the ‘sacraments’ from other observances is regarded as consisting in their paramount obligation as having been expressly commanded by Christ Himself, and in the special spiritual benefits obtainable by their faithful use.By some of the English Puritans and Nonconformists, the word was avoided as being associated with opinions regarded by them as superstitious; the usual term applied by them to baptism and the Lord's Supper was ordinance. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrament > [noun] sacramentc1175 mystery?a1425 c1175 Lamb. Hom. 51 Þe halie sacramens þe me sacreð in alesnesse of alla sunfulle. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 196 Al þet hali chirche deð red oðer singeð. & alle hire sacramenz strengeð ow gastliche. c1315 Shoreham i. 183 Al hit beþ cherche sacremens Þet tokeneþ holi þynges, As hali water, and haly bred, Liȝt, and belryngynges To leste; And of alle oþer sacremens Þes seuene beþ þe greste. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 14 Þe zeve sacremens þet byeþ ine holy cherche. c1386 G. Chaucer Merchant's Tale 75 Mariage is a ful greet sacrement. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 12894 A! Ion..nan was worthier þan þou Hand to lai on suete iesu, To giue him þat hali sacrament. c1440 Alphabet of Tales 186 He tuke his sacramentis of holy kurk and dyed. 1460–1 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Oct. 1460 375/2 By the sacrament of matrymonie. c1460 Wisdom 1115 in Macro Plays 72 Ande now ye be reformyde by þe sakyrment of penaunce. c1475 Harl. Contin. Higden (Rolls) VIII. 491 A pestilence..folowede soone after at Cantebrigge, causynge moche peple to dye as sodenly as madde men withowte the sacramentes of the churche. 1509 J. Fisher Serm. Henry VIJ (de Worde) sig. Aiiij^v The true beleue y^t he had in god, in his chirche & in the sacramentes therof, whiche he receyued all w^t merueylous deuocion, namely in the sacrament of penaunce, the sacrament of y^e auter, & the sacrament of anelynge. 1604 Bk. Common Prayer Catechism Q. What meanest thou by this word Sacrament? A. I mean an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace given unto us [etc.]. 1657 T. Aylesbury Treat. Confession of Sinne iv. 49 The Sacrament of Penance will supply all other defects. 1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 73 [They suffered] the Sacraments themselves to be administer'd where the People had most mind to receive them. 1864 J. H. Newman Apologia 416 The fact of a parishioner dying without the Sacraments through his fault is terrible to him. b. in sacrament: sacramentally. rare. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrament > [adverb] sacramentallyc1380 sacramentlyc1425 in sacrament1628 1628 Field's Of Church (ed. 2) iii. App. 205 The crucified body of Christ thy sonne, which is here present in mystery, and sacrament. 2. a. spec. (with the). The Lord's Supper, Eucharist or Holy Communion. Often called the sacrament of the altar, the Blessed Sacrament, and (esp. formerly) the Holy Sacrament. to receive, take the sacrament, to communicate. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrament > communion > [noun] massOE servicelOE sacrament?c1225 table1340 commoningc1384 the Lord's Supperc1384 Eucharista1400 oblation?a1425 communion1440 sacrifice?1504 Lord's Table1533 Maundy1533 the Supper?1548 unbloody sacrifice1548 mystery1549 communication1550 banquet1563 liturgy1564 table service1593 synaxis1625 mysteriousness1650 second service1655 nagmaal1833 ordinance1854 table prayer1858 society > faith > worship > sacrament > communion > receive communion [phrase] houselOE to receive, take the sacrament?c1225 to receive one's Savioura1425 to take (also deliver, receive) (the) communion1440 to receive (also take) one's Maker1539 the mind > language > statement > assurance, confirmation, or guarantee > assure, confirm, or guarantee [verb (intransitive)] > receive Holy Communion to receive, take the sacrament1610 society > faith > worship > sacrament > communion > receive communion [phrase] > as oath to receive, take the sacrament1610 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 195 Al þe deofles strencðe Malteð þurch þe grace of þe hali sacrament..þet ȝe seoð as ofte as þe preost messeð þe maidenes bearn Iesu. 1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 10198 Þe folk þat to þe preste went For to receyue þe sacrament. a1340 R. Rolle Psalter vi. 1 Comunynge of sacrament of þe autere. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 14 Þe sacrement of þe wyefde. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 231 He ordeynede..þat þe grayel and þe offertorie schulde be i-seide to fore þe sacrement [L. ante sacrificium]. c1440 Alphabet of Tales 339 He had a gude frend, a preste, þat said a mes for hym and offred þe sacrament for hym. 1509 J. Fisher Serm. Henry VIJ (de Worde) sig. Aiv^v The sacrament of the auter he receyued at mydlent, & agayne vpon eester day. a1513 W. Dunbar Tabill of Confessioun in Poems (1998) I. 270 Anis in the ȝer to tak the sacrament. 1534 T. More Treat. Passion in Wks. 1337/2 Onelye this blessed sacrament is called and knowne by the name of sacrament alone. 1610 R. Field Fifth Bk. of Church App. i. 34 The true presence of Christs body & blood in the blessed Sacrament. 1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 73 The obliging all Persons to come up to those Rails to receive the Sacrament. 1712 J. Arbuthnot John Bull Still in Senses viii. 39 They never had a quiet Night's rest, for getting up in the Morning to early Sacraments. 1804 R. Southey in Ann. Rev. 2 202 They received the sacrament weekly. 1848 A. Alison Hist. Europe from French Revol. (ed. 7) IV. xiv. 136 A courageous priest..at the hazard of his life, often administered to her the sacrament. b. The consecrated elements, esp. the bread or Host. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > consumables > eucharistic elements > [noun] houseleOE bread and winea1225 sacrament?c1225 sacringc1290 spicec1425 kind?1531 Eucharistc1540 element1556 species1579 elemental1656 mystery1662 symbol1671 waybread1993 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 56 Vt þurch þe chirche þurl ne halde tale wið nan mon. ach beoreð þerto wurðmund for þe hali sacrement þe ȝe nomeð þer þurch. 1395 J. Purvey Remonstr. (1851) 40 The sacrament of the auteer, which is whight and round, visible and palpable. 1419 in S. Bentley Excerpt. Hist. (1831) 30 The box or vessell in the whiche the precious sacrement is in. 1549 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16267) Svpper of the Lorde f. cxxviii^v Without any eleuacion, or shewing the Sacrament to the people. 1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 216 The people never behold the blessed Sacrament, but they bow their face to the ground. a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1645 (1955) II. 384 The Sacrament being this day exposd, & the Reliques of st. Crosses. c. to take or receive the sacrament (to do something, or upon a matter): to receive Holy Communion as a confirmation of one's word. ΚΠ 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III i. iv. 198 Thou didst receiue the holy sacrament, To fight. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) iv. ii. 28 Ten thousand French haue tane the Sacrament, To ryue their dangerous Artillerie Vpon no Christian soule but English Talbot. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) iv. iii. 140 Ile take the Sacrament on't. View more context for this quotation 1681 Arraignm.,Tryal & Condemnation S. Colledge 65 Mr. Lun. I will take the Sacrament upon it, what I say is true. 1691 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) II. 191 The Irish under col. Clifford had took the sacrament to fight it out to the last man. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones I. ii. vi. 125 Notwithstanding the Positiveness of Mrs Partridge, who would have taken the Sacrament upon the Matter, there is a Possibility that the Schoolmaster was entirely innocent. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones VI. xvii. iv. 118 If it will satisfy you, I will receive the Sacrament upon it, never to see his Face again. View more context for this quotation 1876 Ld. Tennyson Harold iv. i. 106 Harold. Morcar and Edwin, will ye upon oath, Help us against the Norman? Morcar. With good will; Yea, take the Sacrament upon it, king. †d. used in oaths. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1568 (?a1513) W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 252 Ane fleschour swoir be the sacrament And be Chrystis blud maist innocent, Nevir fatter flesch saw man with e. 1573 New Custome i. ii. sig. B iv Sacrament of God, who hath hearde suche a knaue? 1575 W. Stevenson Gammer Gurtons Nedle i. iii. sig. Aiii^v Gogs sacrament, I would she had lost, tharte out of her bellie. e. the last sacraments, Holy Communion and Extreme Unction administered to the dying; (see also quot. 1920); the sacrament of the sick, in the Roman Catholic Church, Extreme Unction (now officially termed the Anointing of the Sick). ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrament > (extreme) unction > [noun] > of the sick or dying last elingc1315 anelingc1350 last anointing1357 extreme unction1477 the Anointing of the Sick1575 last rites1594 chrism1635 the last sacraments1760 the sacrament of the sick1972 1760 in J. O. Payne Old English Catholic Missions (1889) 29 Jan. 7 William Hornby died at Middleham. He had the last sacraments. 1893 E. Bellasis Mem. Serjeant Bellasis viii. 184 He left him..to go and tell the Curé..that the Serjeant ought to have the last Sacraments without delay. 1920 Encycl. Relig. & Ethics XI. 574/1 At Cwm Yoy, in the Black Mountain, on the way to Llanthony, the people have at a funeral what they call ‘the Last Sacrament’. The coffin is brought out and placed on trestles, and beer and cake are then partaken of by the guests and persons assembled.., before the funeral procession starts. 1966 ‘Han Suyin’ Mortal Flower i. 41 The priest..with a Chinese choir boy holding the implements of Extreme Unction,..myself and my sisters assembled in Father's hospital room, to witness..the last sacraments of the Church. 1972 S. Tugwell Did you receive Spirit? xi. 98 It is painful,..and at times comic, to read the Fathers of Trent arguing about the sacrament of the sick. 1975 N.Y. Times 26 Oct. 1/5 A mass was held in the Prado Palace at which he [sc. Franco] took communion and received the sacrament of the sick, a religious ritual that used to be known as the last rites. 1981 Church Times 4 Sept. 9/4 He was the priest in the famous photograph giving the Last Sacraments (a term seldom used now) to the wounded and dying on what the Irish call ‘Bloody Sunday’. 3. In widened application: a. Something likened to the recognized sacraments, as having a sacred character or function; a sacred seal set upon some part of man's life; the pledge of a covenant between God and man. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrament > [noun] > something analogous sacramenta1340 sacramental1529 the mind > language > speech > agreement > [noun] > an agreement forewardOE accordc1275 covenant1297 end1297 form1297 frettec1330 conjurationc1374 treatc1380 bargainc1386 contractc1386 comenaunt1389 compositionc1405 treaty1427 pact1429 paction1440 reconventionc1449 treatisea1464 hostage1470 packa1475 trystc1480 bond (also band) of manrent1482 covenance1484 concordance1490 patisement1529 capitulation1535 conventmenta1547 convenience1551 compact1555 negotiation1563 sacrament1563 match1569 consortship1592 after-agreementa1600 combourgeoisie1602 convention1603 comburghership1606 transaction1611 end-makingc1613 obligement1627 bare contract1641 stipulation1649 accompackmentc1650 rue-bargaina1657 concordat1683 minute1720 tacka1758 understanding1803 meet1804 it's a go1821 deal1863 whizz1869 stand-in1870 gentlemen's agreement1880 meeting of minds1883 the mind > language > speech > agreement > promise > [noun] > bond or covenant bond1330 covenant1377 forthwarda1400 handbanda1400 banda1440 specialty1606 sacrament1679 a1340 R. Rolle Psalter xvii. 1 Þis psalme contens þe sacrament of all chosen men. 1399 J. Gower In Praise of Peace 309 The pes is as it were a sacrement Tofore the god. 1563 2nd Tome Homelyes Common Prayer & Sacram. 146 b And so was circumcision a sacrament, whiche preached vnto the out~warde senses the inwarde cuttyng away of the foreskyn of the harte, and sealed and made sure in the hartes of the circumcised, the promise of god. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 42 Hereunto the Lord addeth the Rainbow, a new Sacrament, to seale his mercifull Couenant with the earth, not to drowne the same any more. 1679 J. Crowne Ambitious Statesman iv. 65 Nature give's man a Sacrament, In his own blood, never to hurt a Woman. 1841 R. W. Emerson Man Reformer in Lect. in Wks. (1906) II. 243 Economy is a high, humane office, a sacrament, when its aim is grand. 1899 W. R. Inge Christian Mysticism vii. 258 To the true mystic, life itself is a sacrament. b. A type, token, sign, or symbol. Const. of.Derived from the accepted definition of a sacrament as a ‘sign of grace’. Quot. 1660 exhibits an attempt to assign to the word a general sense in which the specific applications are included. ΘΚΠ society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > symbolizing > [noun] > a symbol tokeningc888 tokenc890 print1340 bannerc1380 signingc1390 signala1393 signc1400 similitude?c1400 type?a1500 sacrament1534 resemblance1548 adumbration1552 character1569 picture1580 symbol1590 moral?1594 attribute1600 symbolization1603 allegory1606 emblema1616 hieroglyph1646 simile1682 documentor1684 symptoma1687 monument1728 metaphor1836 presentation1866 symbolisms1876 ideogram1897 picture message1912 figura1959 1534 T. More Treat. Passion in Wks. 1331/1 For they make theym wene, that..it is none other but a bare sacrament onelye, that is to wytte a token, a figure, a sygne or memoriall of his bodye and hys bloude crucified and shed. 1563 2nd Tome Homelyes Repair. Church 85 The Temple..was a figure, a Sacrament, or a signification of Christe. 1660 Bp. J. Taylor Worthy Communicant i. §3. 61 When Jonathan shot his arrows beyond the boys, he then by a sacrament sent salvation unto David. 1875 E. White Life in Christ (1876) iv. xxvii. 486 This second death is never set forth as a sacrament of immortality. 1904 A. R. Whitham Epist. Consolations vii. 87 Doubtless also those mysterious contents of the inner sanctuary..were copies of heavenly realities..; signs and sacraments they must have been of God's mercy and justice. c. A mystery; something secret or having a secret meaning. [After Latin sacramentum, used by Tertullian and in the Old Latin and Vulgate Bibles as a rendering of μυστήριον.] ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > a profound secret, mystery > [noun] rounOE mysteryc1384 sacramentc1384 secrec1386 secret1390 riddlec1400 concealment1598 arcanum1605 Sphinxa1610 abstrusity1632 cryptic1663 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Dan. ii. 30 This sacrament, or hid trewthe [L. sacramentum hoc]. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 1 Tim. iii. 16 And opynly it is a greet sacrament of pite. 1388 Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) Rev. i. 20 The sacrament [1382 mysterie, or priuytee] of the seuene sterris. c1400 tr. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. 51 God..make cleer ȝoure vnderstondynge to persayue þe sacrament of þis science. a1600 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. App. 1 in Wks. (1836) II. 698 In a word sacraments are God's secrets, discovered to none but his own people. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes Ep. Ded. sig. A4^v Seeing God hath vsed them as Sacraments or Mysteries to containe his will. 1867 Manning in Ess. Relig. & Lit. II. 362 All the words of Scripture are so many sacraments (or mysteries). d. sacrament of the present moment, any and every moment regarded as an opportunity for the reception of divine grace. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > grace > [noun] > time for reception of sacrament of the present moment1921 1921 E. J. Strickland tr. De Caussade Abandonm. to Divine Providence i. i. 3 What treasures of grace lie concealed in these moments filled, apparently, by the most ordinary events... O Bread of Angels! heavenly manna!.. Sacrament of the present moment! 1930 J. Chapman Spiritual Lett. (1935) 83 The whole point of the ‘Sacrament of the present moment’ is that it is a..sacrament; it is God's action, God's will. 1943 O. Wyon School of Prayer iii. 38 God makes His will known to us through the things that happen every day... Once we see it, our whole life is lifted on to a higher plane. This way of living has been described as The Sacrament of the Present Moment. 1967 J. N. Ward Use of Praying iii. 36 There is the use of the ‘Jesus Prayer’... There is the cultivation of the ‘sacrament of the present moment’. 1979 Tablet 22/ 29 Dec. 1251/2 We miss the many-splendoured thing in the goings-on of daily life, but it is there, totally transforming it and bestowing the sacrament of the present moment on those who are willing to accept it. 4. An oath or solemn engagement, esp. one which is ratified by a rite. (Chiefly as a Latinism.) ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > agreement > promise > [noun] > vow or oath hesta1200 vow1297 professionc1300 sermenta1325 avow1330 sacrament1430 votec1540 troth-plight1570 upon my Sam1939 advower- 1430–40 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1494) viii. xv[i]. D iv He dyd varye From his promyse made by sacremente. 1461 Rolls of Parl. V. 483/1 And tofore theym make ooth and Sacrament convenient, to be true and lowly Subgettes. 1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer i. f. cccxxxii This..haue I sayde for no harme ne malyce of tho persones, but onely for trouthe of my sacrament in my leigeaunce. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 703 Here I aske you hertely þat ye may het here, With a solemne sacrement on þis sure gode, All þe forward to fulfille, þat ye first made. 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene v. i. sig. N^v This doubtfull causes right Can hardly but by Sacrament be tride, Or else by ordele, or by blooddy fight. View more context for this quotation 1611 B. Jonson Catiline i. sig. C3 Nothing wants then, But that we take a solemne Sacrament, To strengthen our designe. View more context for this quotation 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. vii. 25 Nor are the deepest sacraments or desperate imprecations of any force to perswade where reason only, and necessary mediums must induce. View more context for this quotation 1752 E. Young Brothers ii. i Those whom I swore, before they parted hence, In dreadful sacraments of wine and blood, To bring back such reports, as shou'd destroy him. 1801 E. Helme St. Margaret's Cave I. vi. 71 An infant, at whose baptism she [as sponsor] had taken a sacrament, to sustain and instruct in the best manner she was able. 1832 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 32 609 Bound by no sacrament of military obedience to the state. 1890 R. Bridges Shorter Poems i. 7 Have not the young flowers been content, Plucked ere their buds could blow, To seal our sacrament? 5. Roman Law. The sacramentum or pledge which each of the parties deposited or became bound for before beginning a suit. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > agreement > promise > [noun] > pledge or assurance > particular type of assumpsit1586 del credere1682 peace pledge1857 sacrament1880 1880 J. Muirhead tr. Gaius Institutes iv. 270 The procedure in those legis actiones was in one or other of five modes,—by sacrament, by petition for a judge, [etc.]. 1886 J. Muirhead in Encycl. Brit. XX. 682/1 He required sureties from the parties for the eventual payment by him who was unsuccessful of the sacrament he had offered to stake. Compounds C1. General attributive. (Sense 2.) sacrament-wine n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > consumables > eucharistic elements > wine > [noun] winec1005 bloodOE blood of Christc1384 singing wine1558 cup1597 sacrament-wine1698 1698 in 14th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1896) App. iii. 141 Theres a discovery of a designe to have poysoned his Majesty in the sacrament wine on Christmas day. C2. † sacrament-box n. Obsolete a pyx. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > implement (general) > vessel (general) > pyx > [noun] boxc1325 pyx?a1425 sacrament-boxc1440 custode1510 Eucharist1535 pyxis1536 little Jack1566 altar pyx1605 chrismal1845 Eucharistial1845 custodial1861 c1440 Alphabet of Tales 112 On þe morn sho went vnto þe preste, and askid of hym how many hostis war in þe sacrament-box in þe kurk. † sacrament-cloth n. Obsolete a cloth or veil for covering the pyx. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > cloths, carpets, cushions > cloth (general) > eucharistic cloth > [noun] > to cover the pyx pyx-cloth1485 sacrament-cloth1535 1535–6 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 369 Item, ffor dressyng of ij sacrament Clothes. 1853 D. Rock Church of our Fathers IV. xii. 206 Over the cup itself was cast the Sacrament cloth, or piece of thin, cloud-like muslin,—pannus nebulatus. sacrament day n. a day on which Holy Communion is celebrated. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > Sabbath > [noun] > on which communion celebrated sacrament day1687 supper-sabbath1690 Sacrament Sunday1768 sacrament Sabbath1816 1687 S. Sewall Diary in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1878) 5th Ser. V. 176 May 15th was our Sacrament-day. 1765 T. Lindsey Let. 1 Nov. in Notes & Queries (1942) 1 Aug. 62/2 Being a sacrament-day, I could but barely ask the former how he did as he went out of the church. 1826 A. Constable Let. 10 Oct. in J. Constable Corr. (1962) 228 Golding din'd with me on Sunday (Sacrament day). sacrament house n. a tabernacle. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > furniture > tabernacle > [noun] tabernacle1487 sacrament house1551 1551 Inscription in Deskford Church, Banffshire in Reliquary (1908) 14 279 This..loveable wark of Sacrament house maid..the yeir of god 1551. 1876 C. Schreiber Jrnl. 16 July (1911) I. 464 Many objects of the rarest interest—a dance of death (1742).., a sacrament house. 1876 C. Schreiber Jrnl. 24 July (1911) 470 I saw a fine Sacrament house, the third I have met with. 1975 A. Maycock Malling Abbey (rev. ed.) 15 The nuns enter their choir from the cloister.., passing..on the right a circular sacrament house on which the light falls from a conical shaft immediately above it. sacrament-money n. the alms collected at Holy Communion, formerly used as a fund for poor-relief. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > benefice > other financial matters > [noun] > collection > during mass massing-penny1292 mass groat1551 mass-money1664 sacrament-money1716 1716 Rules Disposal Sacrament-Money 3 In the appropriating all Sacrament Money to the Poor only..they have the concurrent Sense of the whole Church of England..for above an 100 Years after the Reformation. 1860 J. C. Byrne Undercurrents Overlooked II. 77 (note) That fund known as the ‘Sacrament money’ is a relic of this venerable custom. sacrament Sabbath n. = Sacrament Sunday n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > Sabbath > [noun] > on which communion celebrated sacrament day1687 supper-sabbath1690 Sacrament Sunday1768 sacrament Sabbath1816 1816 in Sc. National Dict. (1971) VIII. 3/2 'Twas sacrament Sabbath and much had been laid in. 1957 E. E. Evans Irish Folk Ways xviii. 253 The ‘sacrament Sabbaths’ of Presbyterian Ulster were great gatherings having something of the nature of fairs. Sacrament Sunday n. the Sunday on which the Lord's Supper is celebrated (in Scotland formerly only once or twice a year). ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > Sabbath > [noun] > on which communion celebrated sacrament day1687 supper-sabbath1690 Sacrament Sunday1768 sacrament Sabbath1816 1768 J. Woodforde Diary 9 Oct. (1924) I. 80 David Maby..dined with us, being Sacrament Sunday. 1796 C. Simeon in Carus Life (1847) vi. 121 Sunday, 26th.—Sacrament Sunday at Moulin. 1897 ‘I. Maclaren’ Dr. of Old School i. 37 Black he wore once a year, on Sacrament Sunday, and, if possible, at a funeral. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online December 2021). sacramentv. /ˈsakrəmənt/ Etymology: < medieval Latin sacrāmentāre to bind by an oath, < sacrāmentum sacrament n. Compare Spanish sacramentar, Portuguese sacramentar. rare. 1. transitive. To bind by an oath or solemn engagement. Const. to or †to do, also against.Frequent in Sydney Smith. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > agreement > promise > promise or vow [verb (transitive)] > bind by a promise conjurec1290 to speak for ——a1300 avow1303 adjurea1425 surec1460 arrest1489 gage1489 insure1530 pledge1571 fiance1592 objure1609 sacrament1621 attest1685 1621–31 W. Laud Serm. (1847) 55 When desperate men have sacramented themselves to destroy, God can prevent and deliver. 1804 S. Smith Serm. II. 218 A nation of free men, sacramented together. 1834 R. W. Emerson Let. 20 Nov. in Corr. Emerson & Carlyle (1964) 110 A friend of mine & of yours remarked,..‘that people were not here as in England sacramented to organized schools of opinion, but were a far more convertible audience.’ 1860 R. W. Emerson Considerations in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 240 All those who are..by many an oath of the heart, sacramented to you. 2. To make sacred, consecrate. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > holiness > consecration > perform consecration [verb (transitive)] hallow971 blessc1000 teemc1275 bensyc1315 sacrec1380 dediec1430 consecratea1464 dedify1482 sanctify1483 consacrea1492 speak1502 vow1526 dedicate1530 sequester1533 celebrate1584 devote1586 vow1600 to set apart1604 devout1615 devove1619 devow1626 inauguratea1639 behallow1648 sanctificatea1677 sanctize1691 mancipate1715 sacrate1755 sacrify1827 sacrament1829 sacralize1933 1829 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 41 212 The prince was assured, also,..that..his name was sacramented in the hearts of the people. [Literal rendering from Pg.] 1844 N. Brit. Rev. 1 128 Chivalry might well be engaged in the service of religion, for religion sacramented profession. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.c1175v.1621
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