单词 | catechumen |
释义 | catechumenn. 1. A new convert under instruction before baptism. Used in reference to the ancient church and in modern missionary churches. Sometimes applied to young Christians generally, and especially to those preparing for the rite of confirmation. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > preaching > catechesis > [noun] > one who undergoes catechumen14.. auditor1483 audient1615 catechumenist1629 14.. W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xi. 77 (MS. O.) Rather þan to baptise barnes þat ben cathecumynys [v.r. catekumeling]. 1502 tr. Ordynarye of Crysten Men (de Worde) i. i. sig. a.v v They that dewely were cathecuminus: that is to saye instructe of the artycles of the fayth. 1581 J. Marbeck Bk. Notes & Common Places 246 Theie sate amonge the Cathecumeni. c1610–15 Life Holie Helena in C. Horstmann Lives Women Saints (1886) 31 A Catechumene, or learner of the faith. 1615 T. Jackson Iustifying Faith 245 One of their Catechumenies. a1640 J. Ball Answer to Iohn Can (1642) i. 133 Thus they make their catechumine. 1651 in T. Fuller Abel Redevivus 100 One is (as it were) for your Catechumany. 1662 P. Gunning Paschal or Lent-Fast 106 Catechumens or Competentes. 1667 R. Allestree Causes Decay Christian Piety ix. 257 What brief and plain instructions S. Peter gives his Catechumeni. a1711 T. Ken Hymnotheo in Wks. (1721) III. 384 He faithful care of Catechumens took. 1837 J. H. Newman Parochial Serm. (1842) VI. xii. 186 Thousands..who are not baptized, yet are virtually catechumens. 1878 Lady Herbert tr. J. A. von Hübner Ramble round World II. vi. 348 He boldly presented himself, with two catechumens, at the court of the Mikado. 2. transferred. One who is being initiated in any set of opinions, science, art, etc. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > learner > [noun] learnerc900 lore-childa1300 prenticea1400 practitioner1577 catechumen1717 1717 Visct. Bolingbroke Let. to Windham (1753) 255 The same language is still held to the catechumens in jacobitism. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < |
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