单词 | soul bell |
释义 | soul belln. Now historical. The bell tolled at a person's death; = passing bell n. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > obsequies > [noun] > bell > passing-bell passing bell1526 passing peal1533 forthfare1551 death bell1554 soul bell1599 welcome home1878 1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 11 The..Bishop of Norwich..meant not to forsake them till the soule Bell towld them thence. a1603 T. Cartwright Confut. Rhemists New Test. (1618) 394 It is as it were the soule-bell of your Priestly and un-virginly virginity. 1610 Bp. J. Hall Common Apol. against Brownists xliv. 107 We call them soule-bels, for that they signifie the Departure of the soule. 1697 Eucharisticon in Poems State Affairs (1705) 524 Some thought the Body-Politick in a Fit, And the Soul-Bell knelling its last Exit. 1725 H. Bourne Antiquitates Vulgares i. 1 (heading) Of the Soul-Bell, its Antiquity, the Reason of its Institution. 1850 S. Judd Richard Edney xlviii. 446 Toll long,—toll loud, oh Soul-Bell! the requiem of time. 1893 Tablet 27 May 819 The great Soul Bell of St. Swithun's was sobbing in the winter wind for the death of the bishop. 1906 J. J. Raven Bells 112 Persons recovered after their soul bell had sounded. 1994 J. K. Crissman Death & Dying in Central Appalachia ii. 26 In Tudor England, a ‘Passing Bell’ or ‘Soul Bell’ was tolled to signify the passing of a person in the community. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1599 |
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