单词 | white canon |
释义 | > as lemmaswhite canon white canon n. [from the colour of the habit worn; compare post-classical Latin canonicus albus (from the early 13th cent. in British sources)] a Premonstratensian canon.In quot. c1275 an anachronistic reference. ΚΠ c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 14898 Vnder þan ilke þinge comen to Æluric þan [MS þan Æluric] kinge. munekes and eremite & canunes white [Fr. (Wace) religius chanuine]. ?a1425 Chron. Papacy l. 377 in Jrnl. Eng. & Germanic Philol. (1942) 41 187 In þe ȝer of grace Ml. C. xix þe ordre of primonstrensis, þat is whit chanouns, bigan in diocise of lundun. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 412 Premoster, whyȝte chanoun. 1566 J. Barthlet Pedegrewe Heretiques f. 64v The authour thereof was one Nobertus Lotharing, Byshop of Laudane, who ordeyned them white Chanons to weare a white cowle. 1695 T. Tanner Notitia Monastica Pref. sig. b4v The Premonstratensian Canons..were called also White Canons from their Habit, which was a white Cassock with a Rochet over it, and a long white Cloak. 1793 S. Ireland Picturesque Views Medway 200 This venerable and extensive ruin was formerly an Abbey of Premonstratensian or White Canons. 1884 W. E. Addis & T. Arnold Catholic Dict. 685/1 The habit of the Norbertines was white; hence they were commonly called in England the White Canons. 1949 E. Goudge Gentian Hill (1992) i. vi. 77 In the spring of 1196 the first Abbot, Adam, with six White Canons of the Norbertine Order, took possession. 2001 Scotsman (Nexis) 15 Aug. 8 Dryburgh was built by the White Canons or, to give them their posh name, the Order of Premonstrensians. < as lemmas |
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