单词 | seder |
释义 | Sedern. A Jewish ritual service and ceremonial dinner held on the first evening of the Passover and repeated on the second evening by Orthodox Jews outside Israel. Frequently attributive. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > Jewish seasons and feasts > Passover > [noun] > supper on paschala1535 Seder1865 1865 Chambers's Encycl. VII. 312/1 At a later period, a certain number of cups of red wine were superadded to this meal, to which, as its special ceremonies and the order of its benedictions were fixed, the name Seder (arrangement) was given. 1891 M. Friedländer Jewish Relig. 379 The first two evenings of Passover are..called ‘Seder-evenings’, and the book which contains this Service is generally called Haggadah. 1892 I. Zangwill Children of Ghetto II. xxii. 166 She would have to..see the sour faces of her little ones round a barren Seder table. 1892 I. Zangwill Children of Ghetto II. xxv. 205 Seder Night was a charmed time. The strange symbolic dishes..the special Hebrew melodies. 1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. s.v. The celebrant, generally the head of the family, begins with the first of the thirteen functions in the seder service. 1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. s.v. The seder table is very elaborately decorated. 1932 C. Roth Hist. Marranos vii. 185 The traditional Seder-service. 1958 C. P. Snow Conscience of Rich i. iii. 24 We were as good as engaged after seder night in '96. 1970 I. Sieff Mem. vi. 95 Herbert Samuel..spoke the holy words, the traditional conclusion to the Seder service on the eve of the Passover: ‘Next year in Jerusalem.’ 1978 J. Sacks in P. Moore Man, Woman, & Priesthood iii. 39 The best known of these events is the Seder on the first nights of Passover. 1982 Listener 7 Jan. 13/1 I sat round the Seder table during Passover. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1865 |
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