| 单词 | the mosque |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe mosque b. In extended use (by metonymy), as the mosque: those who worship in mosques, Muslims collectively; (also) Islamic authority, culture, etc. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > non-Christian religions > Islam > [noun] > person > collective faithful1615 Mussulmin1679 mosque1779 Moslemah1816 Muslimin1819 jamaat1843 1779 E. Burke Corr. (1844) II. 270 I could not justify to myself to give to the synagogue, the mosque, or the pagoda, the language which your pulpits so liberally bestow upon a great part of the Christian world. 1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics I. vii. i. 326 Those Sufis who proclaimed the difference between the Church and the Mosque of little moment. 1979 Guardian 17 Apr. 1/4 Iran's Foreign Minister..yesterday became the second revolutionary Cabinet Minister to tender his resignation in protest against the way the Mosque is running the country. 1991 Newsweek 11 Nov. 36/1 The Palestinians chose..a text written in English..[which] abandoned the words of the mosque, the rhetoric of the bazaar..and used instead the kind of direct English spoken by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. < as lemmas |
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