单词 | sevenfold litany |
释义 | > as lemmassevenfold litany sevenfold litany n. Christian Church (now historical) the Greater Litany (see Greater and Lesser Litany at litany n. 1a), or an instance of this. [After post-classical Latin Litania Septiformis (8th cent. or earlier), so called from the seven classes of worshipper originally required to process to church to participate in this form of prayer: clergy, laity, monks, virgins, married women, widows, the poor, and children.] ΚΠ OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) ix. 77 Micel menigu ægðer ge preosthades ge munuchades menn, and þæt læwede folc æfter ðæs eadigan Gregories hæse..to ðam seofonfealdum letanium gecomon. a1500 (?c1425) Speculum Sacerdotale (1936) 137 (MED) Let vs..come to sorowes and wepynges of the seven-folde letanye. 1676 T. Comber Compan. Temple (ed. 2) ii. Introd. 7 No wonder if Gregory the Great..living in a time of universal Calamity..did review all the antient Forms, and compose that so famous sevenfold Litany out of them all. 1832 W. Palmer Origines Liturgicae i. ii. 271 Hence when this patriarch gave directions for the celebration of a sevenfold litany, on occasion of a great pestilence, he spoke thus. 1932 J. W. Tyrer Hist. Surv. Holy Week 161 Meanwhile the choir returned into the church and said a sevenfold Litany followed by an interval of silence. 2016 J. F. Romano Liturgy & Society Early Medieval Rome iii. 112 I find it questionable to assert Gregory was an innovator in creating or executing sevenfold litanies or if his predecessors had already made use of them. < as lemmas |
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