英语词汇“pentecostal”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

pentecostal

释义

pentecostal, n. and a.|pɛntɪˈkɒstəl|
[ad. L. pentēcostāl-is adj. (Tertullian), f. pentēcostē: see Pentecost and -al¹. In A, ad. med.L. pentēcostālia (neuter pl. of adj.) pentecostal (payments).]
A. n.
a. (usually pl.) Offerings formerly made in the Church of England at Whitsuntide by the parishioners to the priest, or by an inferior church to the mother-church. Obs. exc. Hist.
1549Latimer 3rd Serm. bef. Edw. VI (Arb.) 83, I should haue receyued a certayne dutye that they cal a Pentecostal.1609in W. Money Hist. Newbury (1887) 529 Pd for Pentecostalles, otherwise called smoke farthings.1695Kennett Par. Antiq. ix. 597 This old custome gave birth and name to the Pentecostals or Whitsun-contributions.1726Ayliffe Parergon 434 Pentecostals, otherwise called Whitsun-Farthings, were Oblations made by the Parishioners to the Parish-Priest at the Feast of Pentecost.
b. (With a capital initial.) = Pentecostalist n.
1904in C. R. Paige Alma White's Evangelism (1939) I. 81 The Pentecostals refrain even from circulating an insinuating hat.1946in S. H. Frodsham With Signs Following xxiv. 273 The Pentecostals today are receiving the same kind of treatment that the Brethren received in those early days... I have heard as clear a presentation of the gospel in Pentecostal meetings as I ever heard among the Brethren.1958E. P. Paulk Your Pentecostal Neighbor 7 Pentecostals have spread..until today they compose a major portion of the Christian body.1969K. & D. Ranaghan Catholic Pentecostals vii. 247 There is no discord between the charismatic movement and the liturgy... There has been no tendency on the part of Catholic pentecostals to substitute prayer meetings or any of the gifts for the sacramental life of the Church.1971D. Gelpi Pentecostalism v. 132 Non-Pentecostals find it [sc. glossolalia] strange and exotic.1972S. Durasoff Bright Wind of Spirit (1973) xi. 190 In the past Catholics have been looked on with favor only as a fertile field of evangelism by many Pentecostals.1974Encycl. Brit. Micropædia VII. 858/1 Pentecostals thus hold that a Spirit-baptized believer may receive one or more of the supernatural gifts that were known in the early Church.1975Christian Order XVI. 419 For the proverbial mess of pottage, the Pentecostals claim, the Church sold her soul to Caesar.
B. adj.
a. Of or pertaining to Pentecost; like that of the Day of Pentecost in Acts ii.
a1663Sanderson (J.), The collects adventual, quadragesimal, paschal, or pentecostal.1836Keble in Lyra Apost. lxxxiv. iii, The sacred Pentecostal eve.a1842A. Reed Hymn, ‘Spirit Divine, attend our prayer’ vi, Come as the wind—with rushing sound And pentecostal grace.1850Robertson Serm. Ser. iii. ix. 116 These are the pentecostal hours of our existence.
b. Resembling the mixture of nationalities in Jerusalem at Pentecost (Acts ii. 9–11); heterogeneous.
1896Kipling Five Nations (1903) 90, I have watched them in their tantrums, all that pentecostal crew, French, Italian, Arab, Spaniard, Dutch and Greek, and Russ and Jew.
c. Pertaining to or designating Christian sects, movements, and individuals who emphasize the gifts of the Holy Spirit as recorded in Acts ii, seek to express their religious feelings uninhibitedly (e.g. clapping, shouting, and speaking with tongues) and often are fundamentalist in outlook and maintain that a ‘baptism in the Spirit’ manifested by speaking with tongues is to be sought by all Christians; freq. (with capital initial) forming part of the name of a sect.
1904Daily Graphic 8 Dec. 4/1 Camberwell has received this new form of worship with mingled feelings of tolerance, indifference and hostility, but the Pentecostal Dancers..have maintained their steadfast resolution of dancing themselves into the hearts of their audiences—with but little success so far.1906Apostolic Faith Oct. 1/1 The waves of Pentecostal salvation are still rolling in at Azusa Street Mission.1910Latter Rain Evangel Oct. 12/1 A Pentecostal convention will be held..God willing, November 18 to Dec. 4 1910.1924Ibid. Oct. 10/1 As usual in a real Pentecostal camp meeting, it was harder to stop than to start.1928Amer. Mercury Oct. 184/2 The Pentecostal Nazarenes have largely duplicated the Methodist system of government by district conferences.1932M. Mead Changing Culture of Indian Tribe 108 Most of the poor whites go to the Pentecostal Church.1946S. H. Frodsham With Signs Following (rev. ed.) v. 41 This Pentecostal visitation became so universal in ‘The Holiness Church’ that it had to be renamed. It is now known as ‘The Pentecostal Holiness Church’.1958[see holiness 4 b].1966Listener 26 May 754/1 Let us consider the West Indian Pentecostal sects.1970P. Oliver Savannah Syncopators 56 The hand-clapping..remained a familiar characteristic of the services of the ‘Sanctified’ and ‘Pentecostal’ churches.1974Amer. Speech 1971 XLVI. 70 It is too soon to know..whether or not the term [sc. jackleg preacher] is used in other urban areas where the storefront pentecostal-and-holiness churches abide.1974Observer (Colour Suppl.) 17 Nov. 34/1 There are the various ‘pentecostal’ movements which go in for fervent, excited forms of worship.

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11：

“pentecostal”的英英意思

“penteconta-”的英英意思

...">“Pentathol”的英英意思

“malign”的意思

“靠得住的价值”英文翻译

“malicious”的意思

友情链接