| 单词 | black gown |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblack gown black gown n. (a) an academic; a learned person; (b) (chiefly among North American Indians) a Christian priest, esp. a Jesuit missionary (cf. Black Robe n.). ΘΚΠ society > education > member of university > [noun] suppost1522 supposit1532 man1573 academic1581 catercap1588 black gown1616 square cap1642 academical1656 academician1665 gownsman1665 sleeve1752 Academe1861 society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > priest > kinds of priest > [noun] > Roman Catholic Pope's Knight?1548 missary1550 popeling1563 greasling1583 Don1600 ointlinga1603 black gown1616 Dom1716 rector1908 1616 T. Scot Philomythie xi. 79 The Flie and Flea having in Court got place... They thought since these..grew rich & braue They would as nimbly too..For many black gowns ther then ought..And thus resolu'd the Flea leaps up aloft. 1698 tr. L. Hennepin New Discov. in Amer. i. lxxiv. 296 A Mass of Requiem had been sung for me in the Monastery, because some Savages had given out for certain, to a Black Gown, i.e. a Jesuite, That the Nation whom the Iroquois call Hontouagaha, had hung me to a Tree with St. Francis's Rope. 1700 E. Ward Step to Stir-Bitch-Fair 12 We saw several Black Gowns pop in and out of the little Country-hovels, like so many Black Rabbits in a Warren, bolting out of their Coney-Burroughs. 1710 J. Toland Refl. Sacheverell's Serm. 12 That great Company of Black-Gowns, commanded in chief by..Doctor Lancaster. 1804 C. B. Brown tr. C. F. de Volney View Soil & Climate U.S.A. 409 This is as difficult to the black gowns as to ourselves. 1872 Amer. Naturalist 6 94 Everywhere among the western Indians the Jesuits were known by the name of Blackgowns. 1927 J. Buchan Witch Wood iii. 56 But think you our bannock-fed foot-sentinels care a doit for the black gowns at Westminster? 2000 tr. P. Lombard Vice & Virtue v. 57 Mazarin decided to serve His Holiness without joining the black gowns. < as lemmas |
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