单词 | unleavened |
释义 | unleavenedadj.n. 1. Chiefly of bread, cakes, etc.: not leavened; made without yeast or other raising agent.Unleavened bread is eaten by Jews during the Feast of Unleavened Bread (following Passover), and also as part of the celebration of the Eucharist in the Roman Catholic Church and in most Protestant churches.In quot. a1557 as n., used elliptically to denote the Jewish Feast of Unleavened Bread. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > [adjective] > unleavened tharfc950 tharflingc1050 unbarmedc1175 unlifa1325 sweet1526 unleavened1530 matzo1846 leavenless1852 society > faith > artefacts > consumables > bread > [adjective] > unleavened tharfc950 sweet1526 unleavened1530 azymous1728 1530 Bible (Tyndale) Exod. xii. f. xix See that ye kepe you to vnleuended [sic] breed. a1557 J. Cheke tr. Gospel St. Matthew (1843) xxvi. 17 Ye first dai of ye vnlevened [Gk. τῶν ἀζύμων] cam ye discipils to Jesus. 1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie iv. x. 188 The vse of vnleauened bread in that sacrament. 1611 Bible (King James) Exod. xii. 39 They baked vnleauened cakes [Heb. maṣṣōṯ] of the dough. View more context for this quotation 1611 Bible (King James) Lev. ii. 4 Vnleauened wafers [Heb. maṣṣōṯ] . View more context for this quotation 1650 E. Chilmead tr. L. Modena Hist. Rites of Jews iii. iii. 127 A quantitie of unleavened bread, which they call..Matzoth. 1702 R. L'Estrange tr. Josephus Jewish Antiq. iii. vi, in Wks. 64 Twelve Loaves of Unleavened Bread. 1737 R. Challoner Catholick Christian Instructed v. 59 Unleavened Bread is an Emblem or Symbol of Sincerity and Truth. 1780 W. Tooke tr. J. G. Georgi Russia II. 33 Their tschoureks are cakes, unleavened, and baked upon the hearth. 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. I. 175 Toasted bread, and unleavened biscuits. 1867 M. E. Herbert Cradle Lands vii. 191 Soft unleavened cakes and some excellent coffee,..completed our repast. 1910 H. W. Atwater Bread & Bread Making (U.S. Dept. Agric. Farmers' Bull. No. 389) 16 Maize flour makes very nutritious and appetizing unleavened bread. 1964 Hillsdale (Mich.) Daily News 17 Dec. 9/4 Oversee the preparation of the unleavened flour for Matzos. 2012 Jerusalem Post (Nexis) 12 Oct. 43 In this festival one eats unleavened bread. 2. figurative. Unchanged or unaffected by a transforming influence likened to leaven, esp. that of God or Christ; not tempered or moderated by a modifying element; unalleviated, unrelieved. Cf. leaven n. 2, leaven v. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > operation upon something > [adjective] > involving subjection to action or influence > affected or influenced > not > by some agent or influence unleavened1596 unacted1794 unaffected1830 1596 T. Cartwright & J. Throckmorton Brief Apologie To Rdr. sig. A2 The wretched assaultes of an vnleauened mouth. 1611 Bible (King James) 1 Cor. v. 7 Purge out therefore the olde leauen, that ye may be a new lumpe, as ye are vnleauened . View more context for this quotation 1641 J. Taylor Brownists Synagogue 5 They are all of them vnleavened soules. 1719 T. Gordon Modest Apol. for Parson Alberoni 25 Some unleavened Lay-Men..went and consulted their old Friend the Bible. 1784 T. Holcroft Noble Peasant i. i. 6 I could not mistake his unleavened face. 1814 Ld. Byron Lara ii. iv. 723 Now rose the unleavened hatred of his heart. 1829 E. Bulwer-Lytton Disowned I. xiv. 224 He is..giving the very goods..to that..starving stripling! No, Warner, no! even this mass is not unleavened. 1882 H. H. Bancroft et al. Hist. Central Amer. I. ix. 363 As well might he have spent his unleavened force against the eternal hills. 1929 Times Lit. Suppl. 7 Feb. 95/2 There was, after all, so much that was unleavened in Blake's composition. 1966 Times 23 June 17/7 To turn this kind of unleavened nonsense into intelligible law. 2009 W. Yates in R. M. Jensen & K. J. Vrudny Visual Theol. 208 They force us into..a world of unleavened sadness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1530 |
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