单词 | salem |
释义 | Salemn. Occasionally (chiefly in the nineteenth century) adopted by Methodists, Baptists, Independents, etc., as the name of a particular chapel or meeting-house. Hence used as a synonym for ‘nonconformist chapel’. Cf. bethel n. 2, Ebenezer n. 2, Zion n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > sanctuary or holy place > chapel > [noun] > nonconformist conventicle?1550 meeting-place1589 meeting1593 meeting house1632 chapel1662 pantile1714 tabernacle1768 gospel-shop?1782 schism-shop1801 bethel1840 schism-house1843 Ebenezer1849 Bethesda1857 Salem1857 praise house1862 1857 ‘G. Eliot’ in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 62/1 The Independent chapel, known as Salem, stood red and conspicuous in a broad street. 1880 A. Trollope Duke's Children III. iii. 27 Every Salem and Zion and Ebenezer in his large parish would be closed. 1935 A. Cruse Victorians & their Bks. iv. 66 Most Churchmen really did look down upon the Dissenters... The congregations that gathered in the Bethels and Ebenezers and Salems..were, for the most part, made up of the less educated and less polished classes. 1963 W. H. Boore Valley & Shadow ix. 43 Salem, Bryncoed, was square and dumpy... The place was private, too—just the Lord and His elect. 1970 Guardian 1 Aug. 9/8 The grey chapels called Salem and Zion. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1982; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1857 |
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