| 单词 |
bema |
| 释义 |
‖ bema|ˈbiːmə|
[a. Gr. βῆµα, lit. ‘a step’ (f. βα- go); hence, a raised place to speak from, the tribune, or rostrum; whence, the apse or chancel of a basilica, in which sense it first appears in Eng.]
1. Eccles. Antiq. ‘The altar part or sanctuary in the ancient churches’ (Chambers); the chancel.
1683T. Smith Observ. Constantinop. in Misc. Cur. (1708) III. 46, I observed but one step from the Body of the Church to the Bema or place where the Altar formerly stood. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Bema made the third, or innermost part of the church, answering to the chancel among us. 1861A. Beresford-Hope Eng. Cathedr. 19th C., At Torcello the episcopal cathedra is raised aloft in the bema or apse.
2. Gr. Antiq. The platform or tribune from which an Athenian orator addressed the assembly.
1820T. Mitchell Aristoph. I. 225 The most worthless of those who mount the bema. 1864Lewes Aristotle 9 For sixty years Pericles had ceased to thunder from the bema. |
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