单词 | to do suffrage |
释义 | > as lemmasto do suffrage b. spec. Prayers or other acts of devotion intended to help the soul of a dead person in purgatory. Often in to do suffrage. Also occasionally in singular: a prayer or devotion of this kind. Now rare or historical. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > prayer > kinds of prayer > [noun] > for departed suffragy?c1225 suffragec1450 society > faith > worship > prayer > kinds of prayer > [verb (intransitive)] > pray for souls of departed to do suffragec1450 c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1904) I. 58 He..garte do message & oders prayers & suffrage of halie kurk for hym. 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende f. cccxlviii/2 That generalle suffrages temporall myght be done for them. 1521 in R. Renwick Extracts Rec. Stirling (1887) I. 13 Twa markis of obit silver..for sufferagh to be doun for the saullis of wmquhill Allexander lord Elphinstoun and Sir Johen Elphinstoun, his fader. 1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft xv. xxii. 434 Whose soule art thou?.. Wantest thou anie suffrages, masses, or almes? 1631 G. C. tr. P. Du Moulin Learned Treat. Trad. xxviii. 410 If I were disposed to make a perfect Catalogue of the Romish Traditions, it would bee necessary for me to decipher, and paint forth the infinite diversity of Masses; the Services and Suffrages of the dead; [etc.]. 1750 Man. Devout Prayers 30 All Souls, A Day set apart by the Church, for the living to commemorate by Prayers and Suffrages the Souls of the Faithful departed. 1848 K. H. Digby Broad Stone of Honour: Morus (new ed.) 280 Their prayers and suffrages for the dead. 1927 Catholic Hist. Rev. 13 63 We begged all blessings for you and your work, and we offered suffrages for the soul of your much-lamented Dean. 2005 G. W. Dameron Florence & its Church in Age of Dante iv. 164 For many laymen and laywomen.., the distribution of money to the poor and sick and the endowment of postmortem or commemorative masses and suffrages (prayers of the living for the dead) were signs of Christian virtue. < as lemmas |
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