单词 | trappist |
释义 | Trappistn.1adj. 1. a. A monk of the branch of the Cistercian order observing the reformed rule established in 1664 by De Rancé, abbot of La Trappe, in Normandy. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > monasticism > religious order > Order of St. Benedict > [noun] > Cistercian > Trappist Trappist1814 1814 H. M. Brackenridge Views Louisiana App. v. 288 To make the highest virtue consist in silence, was reserved for the Trappists. 1870 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Gleanings II. 24 The..most frivolous profligates have often become the most rigid..Trappists and Carthusians. b. attributive or as adj. Of or pertaining to this branch of the Cistercian order. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > monasticism > religious order > Order of St. Benedict > [adjective] > Cistercian > Trappist Trappist1836 1836 Ld. Shrewsbury in E. S. Purcell Life & Lett. A. P. de Lisle (1900) I. iv. 69 I..wish..to see a religious establishment on the premises; but I fancy we might have a much more useful one than a Trappist monastery. 1837 J. Binns Miseries & Beauties of Ireland II. xiii. 298 The superintendant of the Trappist Settlement at Mount Melleray. 1847 tr. C. C. J. Bunsen Constit. Church of Future App. 307 The Count purchased the old Trappist Monastery. 1860 All the Year Round No. 74. 560 He intended to enter a Trappist convent. 1871 J. Morley Vauvenargues in Crit. Misc. 28 The Trappist theory of the conditions of virtue. 2. transferred. A puff-bird of the genus Monacha, having inky-black plumage with white about the head; a nunbird n. ΚΠ 1891 in Cent. Dict. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022). trappistn.2 A professional trapper (of wild animals). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hunter > [noun] > hunter using traps snarer1597 trapper1768 nooser1859 wirer1864 trappist1880 1880 W. Carnegie Pract. Trapping 19 Hares do not offer so large a field for work to the trappist as do rabbits. 1896 Times (Weekly ed.) 380/4 Russian trappists almost denuded the coast of animals. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1adj.1814n.21880 |
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