单词 | the benedictine order |
释义 | > as lemmasthe Benedictine (also Cistercian, Franciscan, etc.) order a. A religious society or fraternity, as an order of monks (also nuns, friars), etc. Frequently with distinguishing name, as the Benedictine (also Cistercian, Franciscan, etc.) order. [Compare post-classical Latin ordo monachorum (8th cent.), ordo monasticus (9th cent.), ordo Cistercii (1147 in a British source), ordo griseus Franciscan (c1250 in a British source), ordo Sancti Augustini (1242 in a British source), ordo Sancti Benedicti (1306, 1499 in British sources).] Formerly sometimes also applied to the rule or constitution of such a society, or to monasticism as an institution. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > monasticism > religious order > [noun] order?c1225 religion?c1225 sectc1380 professiona1393 congregation1493 society1581 religious society1610 community1728 society > faith > church government > monasticism > [noun] > monastic rule > order observing particular rule order?c1225 religion?c1225 sectc1380 professiona1393 congregation1493 communityc1525 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 7 Gef ani vnweote askið ou of wat ordre ȝe beoð..ondswereð of seint iames. c1300 St. Dunstan (Harl.) 49 in F. J. Furnivall Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 35 (MED) Þer was ordre of monekes er seint patrik com And er seint Austyn to Engelonde brouȝte cristendom. c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. Prol. 55 I font þere Freres all þe Foure Ordres. ?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 40 Chanouns of þe ordre of saynt Austyne. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) xii. l. 1241 A ȝong monk als, with him in ordour stud. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. xlvijv The order of Monkes is the inuention of man. a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) iv. i. 131 It was the Friar of Orders gray. View more context for this quotation 1669 A. Woodhead tr. Life St. Teresa (1671) ii. i. 2 To follow the Call..from his Divine Majesty unto this Order. 1749 T. Nugent Grand Tour IV. 322 The famous abbey of La Trappe, of the Cistercian order. 1769 W. Robertson Hist. Charles V II. vi. 445 The Jesuits, as well as the other monastic orders, are indebted for the existence of their order not to the wisdom of their founder, but to his enthusiasm. 1873 W. H. Dixon Hist. Two Queens I. i. i. 8 The Friends of Light..were not an order, and still less a Church. 1902 Daily Chron. 2 Sept. 5/6 The murderer was a tertiary lay brother of the Dominican order. 1977 M. Girouard Sweetness & Light ii. 33 The Community of the Holy Name, an order of Anglican nuns founded by Father Herbert in Vauxhall. 1999 M. Greenwood et al. Ireland: Rough Guide ii. xvi. 559 The Cistercian order, of which Mellifont was the mother house in Ireland. < as lemmas |
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