| 单词 | spiritual father | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasspiritual father  a.  A male religious teacher, counsellor, or leader regarded as having a paternal relationship with those whom he advises; a spiritual director; a confessor. Also more fully  spiritual father. Also as a form of address.With quot. 1614, cf. Job 29:16: ‘I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.’ (King James Bible).ghostly father, godfather, shrift-father, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > confessor > 			[noun]		 shriftc897 fatherOE shrift-father?c1225 penancerc1300 confessor1340 shriver1340 penitencera1387 penitentiary?a1475 pentionary1560 confessary1629 confessarius1661 scruple-drawer1701 soul friend1891 society > faith > worship > preaching > catechesis > 			[noun]		 > one who performs fatherOE catechizerc1449 mystagoguec1540 oracle1548 catechist1564 guru1613 director1671 swami1901 society > faith > worship > preaching > catechesis > 			[noun]		 > one who performs > to whom one owes one's spiritual life fatherOE OE    Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. 		(Royal)	 		(1997)	 xxvii. 407  				Þa ðe for heofonan rices myrhðe forlætað fæder & moder..hi underfoð manega gastlice fæderas. OE    Regularis Concordia 		(Tiber.)	 		(1993)	 xxii. 37  				Ut fratrum unusquisque suę conscientię reatum patri spirituali..per humilem reuelet confessionem : þæt gebroþra æghwylc hys inngehydes gylt fæder gastlicum..þurh eadmode geopenige andetnesse. a1225						 (c1200)						    Vices & Virtues 		(1888)	 7 (MED)  				Mine gastliche faderes. ?c1225						 (?a1200)						    Ancrene Riwle 		(Cleo. C.vi)	 		(1972)	 235  				Inoch is to segge swa. þet þe schrift fader witerliche understonde hwat þu wule meanen. c1384    Bible 		(Wycliffite, E.V.)	 		(Douce 369(2))	 		(1850)	 1 Cor. iv. 15  				If ȝe han ten thousandis of litle maistris in Crist Jhesu, but not manye fadris [L. patres]. a1393    J. Gower Confessio Amantis 		(Fairf.)	  i. l. 1865  				Min holy fader, so I wile. c1400						 (?a1387)						    W. Langland Piers Plowman 		(Huntington HM 137)	 		(1873)	 C.  i. l. 120  				Ȝe sholde be here fadres and techen hem betere. c1405						 (c1390)						    G. Chaucer Parson's Tale 		(Ellesmere)	 		(1877)	 §909  				So is his [sc. a child's] godfader his fader espiritueel. a1438    Bk. Margery Kempe  i. 44 (MED)  				Þe ankyr of þe Frer Prechowrys in Lenn, whech was principal gostly fadyr to þis creatur. ?a1500						 (a1471)						    Brut 		(Lyell)	 in  J. S. Davies Eng. Chron. 		(1856)	 64 (MED)  				There thay slow him horribly, thair fader and thair bisshoppe. 1567    W. Allen Treat. Def. Priesthod 226  				We call them Confessours, & of olde in Grece, they were named Spirituall maisters or Fathers. 1597    R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie  v. lxiv. 156  				It sauoureth more of pietie to giue them their old accustomed name of fathers and mothers in God. 1614    W. Kinsman  & E. Kinsman tr.  A. de Villegas Lives of Saints 620  				All his [sc. St Thomas Becket's] other vertues:..so good a father to the poore, that none departed from him without reliefe. 1651    D. Cawdrey Inconsistencie Independent Way 164  				In the Church, the Ministers are spirituall fathers to the members. 1677    Lady Chaworth in  MSS Duke of Rutland (12th Rep. Hist. MSS Comm.) 		(1889)	 App. v. 43  				The D[uchess] of Portsmouth..has promised it to her ghostly father. 1717    T. Brett Independency Church upon State 50  				Although God have given the Bishop a Right to such Maintenance, yet if he has it not, he is no less the Father of that Flock than if he had it. 1769    H. Venn in  Life 		(1835)	 152  				A lady said to me, ‘You, Sir, are my spiritual father!’ 1783    H. Bright Praxis 59  				My Fathers and Mothers in a religious, spiritual and godly Sense, or Proparents, who covenanted for me at the Baptismal Font. 1828    T. S. Grimshawe Mem. L. Richmond 		(1829)	 132  				He was regarded by them [sc. the communicants] as a father. 1889    W. Pater Appreciations 239  				Do you think it could be my duty, as a relative of Mademoiselle de Courteheuse, her spiritual father, as a prelate of the Church, to lend my hands to such disorder? 1908    D. De Leon tr.  E. Sue Branding Needle  iii. iii. 114  				Ah, my father in Christ! 1967    H. Welch Pract. Chinese Buddhism 1900–1950  ii. ix. 247  				That monk became his ‘father’. 2010    Gettysburg 		(Pa.)	 Times 28 July  a7/1  				I have had the privilege of walking with a spiritual father since 1998. < as lemmas | 
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