| 单词 | to stand at font |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto stand at font (for a person) † to stand at font (for a person) and variants: to be a godparent or sponsor for a person at baptism. Obsolete.figurative in quot. 1656. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > parenthood > [verb (transitive)] > be godparent to to stand at font (for a person)1620 to stand up1840 1620 tr. G. Boccaccio Decameron II. vii. iii. f. 29 Who is the neerest Kinsman to your Son; either I, that stood at the Font for his Baptisme [It. io, che il tenni a battesimo], or your Husband that begot him? 1656 R. Fletcher Poems in Ex Otio Negotium 255 A gray Bark That stood at Font for Noah's Ark. 1815 ‘J. Mathers’ Hist. Mr. John Decastro & Brother Bat IV. i. 2 The godfathers and godmothers made a great mistake when they named that child: If I had stood at font, and the parson had said to me, Name this child, I would have called him a rascal. < as lemmas |
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