单词 | sententiary |
释义 | sententiaryn.adj. Historical. A. n. 1. (a) One who writes or utters sentences or aphorisms. (b) A compiler of ‘sentences’ or opinions of doctors of the Church on theological questions. (c) A commentator or lecturer on the Book of Sentences (see sentence n. 2b). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > saying, maxim, adage > [noun] > maker of sententiarya1603 apophthegmatist1727 maxim-monger1753 maxim-maker1806 gnomologist1813 maximist1855 society > faith > aspects of faith > patristics > Fathers of the Church > [noun] > writings of > compiler of sententioner?1548 sententiarya1603 sententiarist1677 catenist1880 a1603 T. Cartwright Confut. Rhemists New Test. (1618) 575 One of your owne, that lived about 170 yeares past, writing of your Sententiaries, alledgeth this place of the Apostle against them. 1629 H. Burton Truth's Triumph 2 Their school-diuinitie, as Gabriel Biel, one of their chiefe Sententiaries.. hath laid it downe. 1662 H. Hibbert Syntagma Theologicum 14 Using..the Fathers, Scholasticks, Sententiaries, Canonists. 1817 S. T. Coleridge Blessed are ye that Sow Introd. 14 The inspired poets, historians and sententiaries of the Jews. 1884 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. III. 2490/1 The prevailing scholasticism [15th c.] and the method of the sententiaries. 2. A sententious discourse. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > saying, maxim, adage > serious saying, dictum > [noun] dictate1582 dictumc1586 sententiosity1646 seriosity1728 sententiary1843 1843 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last of Barons I. ii. ii. 190 It is easier to the warm heart of our cousin of Warwick to preach sententiaries of sternness to his king, than to enforce the same by his own practice. 1843 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last of Barons I. iii. vi. 268 Though his sententiary as to nature and science lacked loyalty and respect. B. adj. [Modern as translation of medieval Latin sententiarius.] Sententiary Bachelor, a bachelor of the second order of theology in the Middle Ages, whose office was to lecture on the Sentences of Peter Lombard. ΚΠ 1889 in Cent. Dict. at Bachelor Derivatives sententiˈarian n. ΚΠ 1882 Ogilvie's Imperial Dict. Sententiarian. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > patristics > Fathers of the Church > [noun] > writings of > compiler of sententioner?1548 sententiarya1603 sententiarist1677 catenist1880 1677 J. Owen Doctr. Justif. by Faith Introd. 8 It is..to no purpose to handle the mysteries of the Gospel as if Holcot and Bricot, Thomas and Gabriel, with all the Sententiarists, Summists, and Quodlibetarians,..were to be raked out of their Graves to be our guides. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.adj.a1603 |
随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。