| 单词 |
shrift-father |
| 释义 |
ˈshrift-ˌfather Obs. exc. arch.
Also 4 schrefvader, 5 schryffader.
[f. shrift n. + father n. (sense 6 a). Cf. ON. skriptafaðer.]
A confessor.
a1225Ancr. R. 316 Inouh hit is to siggen so þet þe schrift feder witterliche understonde hwat tu wulle menen. 1340Ayenb. 38 Hi ssollen do be þe rede of holy cherche oþer be hire ssrifte-uaderes. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VI. 457 Kyng Edredus..sente to his schriftfader [MS. γ schrefvader] Donstan. c1430Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1903) 229 To do such penaunce..As þi schrift-fadir þee councellis. a1450Myrc 233 How and where he doth þat synne, To hys schryffader he mote þat mynne. 1533Gau Richt Vay (1888) 3 Quhou thay sal rekkine al thair sinnis to thair schrift fader. 1600Fairfax Tasso xi. ix, In close and priuate cell, Where (but shrift fathers) neuer mankinde treades. 1853Rock Ch. of Fathers III. ii. xi. 19 The penitential, a book which only shrift-fathers..might read. 1882F. J. Child Ballads i. 26/1 Louise then tries her shrift-father. |
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