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单词 to take the veil
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to take the veil
P1. to take the veil and variants: to become a nun; to enter a convent.to take the little veil: (apparently) to become a lay sister (obsolete). to take the white veil: to become a novice nun. to take the black veil: to take full vows and assume the life of a nun.Originally in sense 18 of the verb take, with the sense ‘to receive the veil’ or ‘to have the veil conferred upon one’, but in later use passing into sense 45c, with the sense ‘to assume the office of a nun’. Cf. sense 1b. [Compare Anglo-Norman receivre le veil (13th cent. or earlier).]
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society > faith > worship > sacrament > order > monastic profession > [verb (intransitive)] > make profession > as nun
to take the veila1387
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a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1879) VII. 459 (MED) Sche bare þe vayle of holy avow..sche took þe vayle [L. velum gestasse] for to putte of wowers.
c1390 (c1300) MS Vernon Homilies in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1877) 57 248 Þeos Maydenes were sent veil to take Of þat Bisschop,..þeos Maydens come bi fore þe autere And tok heore veil in feir Manere.
c1480 (a1400) St. Clement 661 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 392 Throw hyme þe wale has tan a cusing of domycyane.
a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Nero) vii. l. 264 Hir systyr þan dame Cristyane Off religion þe wail had tane.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. YYYiiii She had forsaken the worlde & taken the holy veyle & habyt of religion.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 395 Taking herselfe to the Veile for opinion of holinesse.
1663 J. D. tr. H. de Péréfixe de Beaumont Hist. Henry IV iii. 225 The Marchioness of Bell' Isle..renounced likewise the world, and went and shut her self up in the Convent of the Feuillantines at Tolouse, where she took the veil, and finished her days.
a1700 Diary Blue Nuns in Publ. Catholic Rec. Soc. (1910) 8 15 Margarite Pigin came from England to be a lay sister and took the litle vaile for religion.
1756 M. Calderwood Lett. & Jrnls. (1884) xii. 317 It was the white vaill she was to take, that is, she was to enter her noviscet, for there is here no public ceremony in takeing the black vaill, and last vows, for that is done within the convent, after a year's wearing the white.
1791 A. Radcliffe Romance of Forest I. iii. 89 My father intended I should take the veil.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian xiv*, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. IV. 371 She never took the veil, but lived and died in severe seclusion, and in the practice of the Roman Catholic religion.
1851 E. D. E. N. Southworth Shannondale 136/1 Twelve months from her entering upon her noviciate, she took the black veil.
1867 M. E. Herbert Cradle Lands iii. 103 Then it..became a large and flourishing Convent, the wife of Baldwin I having taken the veil there.
1921 Times 21 Oct. 13/3 In aristocratic Catholic circles women are again taking the veil.
1948 Oil City (Pa.) Derrick 23 June 16/1 The class of novitiates to take the white veil at ceremonies at St. Joseph's convent.
2010 Arthuriana 20 56 She may have taken the veil..though that is by no means certain.
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