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单词 calvary
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Calvaryn.

/ˈkalvəri/
Etymology: < Latin calvāria skull, used to translate Aramaic gogulþō or gogolþā ‘the skull’ (Hebrew gulgōleþ skull, poll), in Greek transliteration γολγοθά, the name of the mount of the Crucifixion, near Jerusalem.
1. The proper name of the place where Christ was crucified. (Rendered in Old English Headpan-stow.) Also used generically.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Biblical places > [noun]
olivetOE
Calvaryc1000
the Holy (Saint) Sepulchre (occasionally the Sepulchre)c1200
Holy Citya1382
Jerusalem1382
holy grave1481
Holy Sepulture1525
Armageddona1638
Via Crucis1844
Via Dolorosa1878
c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Luke (Corpus Cambr.) xxiii. 33 Hig comon on þa stowe þe is genemned caluarie þæt is heafod-pannan stow.
c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xxvii. 31 Golgotha, þæt ys, heafod-pannan stow.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. xxvii. 33 Clepid Golgatha, that is, the place of Caluarie.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Luke xxiii. 33 And aftir that thei camen in to a place, which is clepid of Caluarie [a1425 L.V. Caluerie].
1878 ‘G. Eliot’ College Breakfast Party in Macmillan's Mag. July 167 A Calvary where Reason mocks at Love.
1878 N. Amer. Rev. 342 A new Calvary and a new Pentecost in reserve for these coheritors of the doom.
2. [French calvaire] Roman Catholic Church.
a. A life-size representation of the Crucifixion, on a raised ground in the open air.
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society > faith > artefacts > symbol (general) > Christian symbols or images > [noun] > cross > monumental
palm cross1442
high cross1457
pulpit cross1598
Calvary1815
1815 M. A. Schimmelpenninck Demolit. Monastery Port Royal III. 206 She also took her for three weeks to the calvary of the Luxembourg.
1846 R. Hart Eccl. Rec. (ed. 2) 223 Of the Golgotha, or Calvary, which represented on a large scale the circumstances of the Passion, with images of S. Mary and S. John, our Saviour on the Cross, and sometimes the two thieves, grouped in the open air, we have no English example.
1884 Harper's Mag. Nov. 852/1 By the side of the high-road..is one of those calvaries so associated with the landscape of Catholic countries.
b. A series of representations, in a church or chapel, of the scenes of the Passion.
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society > faith > artefacts > furniture > Stations of the Cross > [noun]
Calvary1728
Way of the Cross1792
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Calvary, a Term us'd in Catholic Countries for a kind of Chapel of Devotion, rais'd on a Hillock near a City... Such is the Church of St. Valerian, near Paris; which is accompany'd with several Chapels, in each whereof is represented in Sculpture one of the Mysteries of the Passion.

Compounds

Calvary clover n. a name for Medicago echinus.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > medicks
medick?1440
snail clover1548
heart trefoil1597
snails1629
melilot trefoil1677
Barbary buttons1712
black-seed1763
snail-plant1767
black medick1778
heart liver1792
snail-shell medick1796
spotted medick1825
hop1866
Calvary clover1882
1882 Garden 2 Sept. 220/2 Calvary Clover..makes a very pretty basket plant.
Calvary Cross n.
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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > charge: device on shield > cross > [noun] > Calvary cross
Cross Calvary1678
Calvary Cross1826
1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1828) III. xxxiv. 483 The front is nearly the shape of a Calvary cross.
1851 D. Wilson Archæol. & Prehistoric Ann. Scotl. iv. viii. 651 Engraved with floriated or Calvary cross.
Cross Calvary n. in Heraldry, a cross mounted on a pyramid of three grises or steps.
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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > charge: device on shield > cross > [noun] > Calvary cross
Cross Calvary1678
Calvary Cross1826
1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) App. s.v. A Cross Calveri.
1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Calvary (in Heraldry) as a cross Calvary, is set on Steps to represent the Cross on which our Saviour suffered.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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