单词 | tenebres |
释义 | † tenebresn. Obsolete. 1. Darkness, obscurity. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > [noun] thesternessc888 thesterc897 murkOE theosterleykc1000 darkc1300 darkheadc1300 murknessa1325 therknessa1325 darknessc1350 tenebres1413 tenebrousa1450 obscurity1481 tenebrosity1490 obscureness1509 dern?a1513 sable?a1513 darksomeness1571 fuliginousness1576 darkishness1583 murksomeness1625 obscure1667 soot1789 tenebrity1789 nightness1839 raylessness1843 lightlessness1845 darkling1882 unlight1883 α. β. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 184 Les tenebres..a sodayne darkenesse or tenables,..or want of lyght in the night season.1413 Pilgr. Sowle (1483) iii. iii. 51 Enuy is the doughter of the grete tenebre. 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 420 b/1 Thou shalte deye here in tenebres or derknesse. 1484 W. Caxton tr. G. de la Tour-Landry Bk. Knight of Tower (1971) civ. 141 For grete pyte..to see them goo and falle in the tenebres of helle. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos ii. 14 Under the tenebres and derkenes, departed Eneas. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Tenebres.., darkness, obscurity. 2. a. = Tenebrae n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > canonical hours > matins > [noun] > in Holy Week, with lauds tenebresa1450 Tenebrae1651 1539 Bk. Ceremonies in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) I. App. cix. 292 The same service is called tenebres. 1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Tenebres. 1703 in Publ. Catholic Rec. Soc. (1909) 7 146 Mr Nelson..was wth him at ye Tenebres at St Thos. 1801 Lusignan IV. 138 [He] arrived there at the hour of the tenebres. b. attributive in singular form tenebre, teneber (but the former may be the Latin tenebræ), as tenebre candle, tenebre lesson, tenebre matins, tenebre service, Tenebre Wednesday. ΚΠ 1477–9 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 91 Paid to Roger Middilton, wex Chaundeler, for..tapris, prickettes and tenebre candill, for euery lb, ob—xj s. ix d. 1525 in J. Nichols Illustr. Antient Times Eng. (1797) 273 For makyng of the paskall, wt the tenabur candell. 1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes i. xviii, in Wks. 143/2 In the tenebre lessons leueth her candel burning styll. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 811/2 On Tenebre wednysdaye, le mercredy des Tenebres. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. cxcixv Which Richard..was boyled in Smythfelde the Teneber wednisday followyng. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1413 |
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