| 单词 | votive tablet |
| 释义 | > as lemmasvotive tablet votive tablet n. an inscribed or painted panel formerly hung in a sacred place in commemoration of the fulfilment of a vow (e.g. after deliverance from shipwreck or a dangerous illness). ΚΠ 1608 T. Price tr. O. Torsellino Hist. Our B. Lady of Loreto ii. xxviii. 223 Golden, siluer and waxen Images, and votiue tablets [L. votiuae..tabellae], which (for the space of manie yeares and ages also) haue beene gathered and heaped togeather. 1718 M. Prior Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 315 Here..Phoebus King of Verse, The Votive Tablet I suspend. 1774 Monthly Rev. 49 560 It was not customary in Egypt, as in Rome, to hang the walls of the temples with a number of votive tablets. 1869 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. European Morals I. iii. 382 The votive tablets of those who escaped are suspended in the temple, while those who were shipwrecked are forgotten. 1930 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 50 151 A votive tablet with Heracles and the boar. 2014 J. Guy Lost Kingdoms iii. 117/1 Later excavations have yielded many votive tablets, some bearing inscriptions. < as lemmas |
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