| 单词 |
Ecclesiast |
| 释义 |
Ecclesiast|ɛˈkliːzɪæst|
[(? a. Fr. ecclesiaste), ad. (through L.) Gr. ἐκκλησιαστής one who takes part in an ecclesia (= sense 3 below); used by the LXX. to render Heb. qōhéleth one who addresses a public assembly.]
1. ‘The Preacher’, i.e. Solomon considered as the author of the Book of Ecclesiastes. In first quot. applied to the author of Ecclesiasticus, the reference being to xxxiii. 19.
c1386Chaucer Wife's Prol. 651 Thanne wolde he, vp-on his Bible seke That ilke prouerbe, of Ecclesiaste Where he comandeth, and forbedeth faste Man shal nat suffre his wyf go roule aboute. 1873Contemp. Rev. XXII. 536 The happiness that allures me, says the Ecclesiast, is a mockery.
2.
†a. [suggested by 1.] One who performs public functions in church (obs.).
b. [Suggested by ecclesiastic.] A church administrator.
c1386Chaucer Prol. 708 He [the Pardonere] was in churche a noble ecclesiaste. 1866F. W. Newman Relig. Weakness Prot. 40 We see a great ecclesiast.
3. A member of the Athenian Ecclesia.
1849Grote Greece ii. I. VI. 382 Present to the mind of every citizen in his character of dikast or Ekklesiast. 1872Symonds Grk. Poets Ser. i. i. (1877) 30 The whole Athenian nation as dikasts and ecclesiasts were interested in Rhetoric. |
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