单词 | to make one's easter |
释义 | > as lemmasto make (also †do) one's Easter b. The action or an act of receiving the Holy Eucharist during the season of Easter, as required of members of the Roman Catholic Church. Originally and chiefly in to make (also †do) one's Easter (see make v.1 43g): to receive the Holy Eucharist at Easter, to fulfil one's Easter duty (Easter duty n. 2). Now chiefly figurative. ΚΠ 1700 T. Marwood Diary 8 Apr. in Publ. Catholic Rec. Soc. (1909) 7 62 I was at St Gomars & Saw ye Quire do their Easter. 1885 E. H. Dering Lady of Raven's Combe I. ii. 20 Mick..is..very happy about everything, when he has made his Easter. 1892 Month May 37 Taking in those who have made their Easters at Melior St...we may count the Easters as 2000. 1903 B. A. H. Wiberforce Let. 7 May in Life & Lett. xvi. 344 No sick just now. All but four made their Easter. 1935 H. N. Brailsford Voltaire 237 He performed the minimum act of conformity demanded by the Church; that is to say, in the usual French phrase, he ‘made his Easter’. 1972 P. Freire in Catholic Mind Sept. 7/2 For the First World to hear that Word, it must previously undergo an Easter. 1998 M. McGuckian in L. E. Beattie & M. A. Shaughnessy Sisters in Pain 99 I make my Easter walking between the graves, Head high in the air. < as lemmas |
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