单词 | tulchan |
释义 | tulchann. Scottish. 1. literal. A calf's skin set under a cow to make her yield her milk freely: see above. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > dairy farming > [noun] > milking > calf's skin under cow tulchana1578 a1578 [see sense 2]. ?a1600 [see sense 2]. a1651 [see sense 2]. 1785 Jrnl. fr. London to Portsmouth 2 Flae him belly-flaught, his skin wad mak' a gallant tulchin for you. 1808–18 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Tulchane, -in...2. A bag or budget, generally of the skin of an animal. 1866 D. Livingstone 16 June in Last Jrnls. (1874) I. ii. 51 The cattle of Africa..never give their milk without the presence of the calf or its stuffed skin, the ‘tulchan’ [printed fulchan]. 2. Historical. Hence attributive, applied in derision to the titular bishops appointed in Scotland immediately after the Reformation, in whose names the revenues of the sees were drawn by the lay barons. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > bishop > kinds of bishop > [noun] > titular May bishop1565 tulchana1578 titular bishop1597 a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) II. 282 The tulchen, to wit ane feinȝeit counterfeitt bischope... The kingis lordis that obtenit thair beneficeis culd find na way to have proffeit thairof without thay had ane tulchen lyk as the kow had or scho wald gif milk, ane calfis skin stoppit with stra. ?a1600 ( R. Sempill Legend Bischop St. Androis in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xlv. Pref. 349 Albeit they be now Tulchin bischops stylit. a1651 D. Calderwood Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1678) 55 The Bishops, admitted according to this new order, were called in jest, Tulchane Bishops. A Tulchane is a calf's skin stuffed full with straw, to cause the cow give milk. 1703 D. Williamson Serm. before Gen. Assembly Edinb. 43 Then were imposed the Tulchan, or meer nominal Bishops, who by simoniacal Contracts allowed the great men to enjoy the Revenues of the Church. 1859 J. J. Marshall Hist. Sc. Affairs x. 211 The Episcopacy thus introduced has always gone under the name of the Tulchan or Titular Episcopacy. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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