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单词 subintroduced
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subintroducedadj.

Brit. /ˌsʌbɪntrəˈdjuːst/, /ˌsʌbɪntrəˈdʒuːst/, U.S. /ˈˌsəbᵻntrəˈd(j)ust/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: subintroduce v., -ed suffix1.
Etymology: < subintroduce v. + -ed suffix1. Compare slightly earlier subintroducted adj.In the specific ecclesiastical sense (compare quots. 1753, 1886, 1968) after post-classical Latin mulieres subintroductae, plural (6th cent.; itself after Byzantine Greek συνείσακτοι, plural); these women were also called mulieres extraneae, literally ‘women introduced from outside’ (6th cent.).
Now rare (historical in later use).
That has been subintroduced; spec. designating a woman living illicitly with a Catholic cleric.
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1642 Bp. J. Taylor Of Sacred Order Episcopacy 189 Although Presbyters joyne not in the consecration of a Bishop, yet of a Presbyter they doe; but this is onely by a positive subintroduced constitution first made in a Provinciall of Africa.
1664 Bp. J. Taylor Disswasive from Popery i. vi. 48 To refuse the later subintroduc'd custom incurres the sentence of Excommunication.
a1727 G. Hooper Wks. (1757) 59 How one [Rite] that is sub-introduced and Novel, if it be not at the first rise apparently and grossly erroneous, may, however, have in it some Seed of Superstition.
1753 N. Lardner Diss. Two Epist. ascribed to Clement of Rome 37 These epistles were not writ, untill after some ecclesiastics had begun to have with them what were called subintroduced women.
1886 C. R. Conder Syrian Stone-lore viii. 278 The practice of allowing ‘subintroduced sisters’ to live in the houses of the celibates.
1968 R. Nash Conquest Brazil iii. xiii. 308 It was the rule, rather than the exception, for the Catholic clergy to live with ‘subintroduced’ women who passed as sisters of the priests and by whom they had natural children without creating any extraordinary scandal.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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