| 单词 |
Minorite |
| 释义 |
Minorite, n. and a.|ˈmaɪnəraɪt|
[f. minor + -ite.]
A. n.
1. A friar minor or Franciscan.
1577–87Holinshed Chron. II. 41/2 Malachias, the minorit or greie frier. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 427 Iohn à Monte Coruino, a Minorite. 1760Jortin Erasm. II. 118 Then follows a short letter to some Minorites, who defamed Erasmus. 1883Jessop in 19th Cent. July 99 The Minorites were the Low Churchmen of the 13th century.
2.
†a. A person of minor rank (obs.).
b. allusive nonce-use. One busied about minor matters.
1644Milton Areop. (Arb.) 41 Our inquisiturient Bishops, and the attendant minorites their Chaplains. a1670Hacket Abp. Williams ii. (1693) 102 The Respondent takes no notice that a Bishop wrote the Letter: For why not rather some Minorite among the Clergy? 1807Southey Espriella's Lett. (1814) I. 233 The ordinary pursuits of mankind are not as innocent as that of these experimental Minorites or Minims.
B. adj. Of the order of Friars Minor.
1563–87Foxe A. & M. (1596) 236/2 The order of the minors or minorit friers descended from one Francis..of..Assisium. 1598Hakluyt Voy. I. 53 A Frier Minorite, called Simon de Sanct. Quintin. a1604Hanmer Chron. Irel. (1633) 73 There was another Livinus a French man, a Fryer minorite. 1766Entick London IV. 310 On the scite..there anciently stood the abbey of Minorite nuns. 1892K. Gould Conversat. Döllinger x. 245 S. Bonaventure, a member of the Minorite order. |
英语词典包含277258条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。
相关内容：
相关热词搜索：minorite英英词典英英释义英语词汇意思用法释义英语
字词 通奸者 释义 【法】 fornicator 汉译英翻译词典收录405719条汉英翻译词条，基本涵盖了全......