| 单词 | whitsun-farthing |
| 释义 | > as lemmasWhitsun-farthing Whitsun-farthing n. now historical an offering made at Whitsuntide by a parishioner to a priest (cf. pentecostal n. 1). ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > benefice > other financial matters > [noun] > collection > during Whitsun smoke-farthing1444 pentecostal1549 Chad-farthingc1588 Whitsun-farthing1656 Pentecost money1664 1656 in W. Urwick Nonconformity in Worcester (1897) 56 Oblations commonly called by the name of Whitson Farthings payable to the Dean and Chapter of W[orcester]. 1797 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 852/1 Whitsun-Farthings, otherwise called Smoke-farthings.., a composition for offerings..anciently made in Whitsun-week by every man in England, who occupied a house with a chimney, to the cathedral church of the diocese. 1905 F. Bond Gothic Archit. in Eng. (1906) ii. xii. 207 At Southwell the Pentecostals, or ‘Whitsun-farthings’, were paid in the north porch. < as lemmas |
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