Vestry
['vestrɪ] or ['vɛstri]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a room in a church where sacred vessels and vestments are kept or meetings are held.
(noun.) in the Protestant Episcopal Church: a committee elected by the congregation to work with the churchwardens in managing the temporal affairs of the church.
錄入:昆西--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A room appendant to a church, in which sacerdotal vestments and sacred utensils are sometimes kept, and where meetings for worship or parish business are held; a sacristy; -- formerly called revestiary.
(n.) A parochial assembly; an assembly of persons who manage parochial affairs; -- so called because usually held in a vestry.
(n.) A body, composed of wardens and vestrymen, chosen annually by a parish to manage its temporal concerns.
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同義詞及近義詞:
n. Sacristry, vestry-room.
校對:塔玛拉
解釋/意思:
n. a room adjoining a church in which the vestments are kept and parochial meetings held any small room attached to a church: in English parishes a meeting of the ratepayers to elect parish officers to assess church-rates and to manage the property of the parish the incumbent acting as chairman.—adj. Ves′tral.—ns. Ves′try-clerk an officer chosen by the vestry who keeps the parish accounts and books; Ves′tryman a member of a vestry.—Select vestry a board consisting of representatives of the ratepayers as opposed to the common vestry or assembly of all the ratepayers.
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例句/造句/用法:
- On the second day he found his wife and Sir Percival whispering together quite familiar, close under the vestry of the church. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- The vestry was larger than I should have supposed it to be, judging from the outside only. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- But the position of the original in the vestry was, as I had seen with my own eyes, anything but secure. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- I'm obliged to bring you this way, sir, he said, because the door from the vestry to the church is bolted on the vestry side. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- He's vestry-clerk here now as his father was before him. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- The scene is the Vestry-room of St James's Church, with a number of leathery old registers on shelves, that might be bound in Lady Tippinses. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- The vestry at the back was built out from the church, and seemed to be of the same age. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- The keys of the vestry. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- I am not quite sure that I know what a vestry-clerk is. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- This door also was composed of solid oak, and was bolted at the top and bottom on the vestry side. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Then they went into the vestry and signed the register. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- I agreed with him that nobody could help the untidiness of the vestry, and then suggested that we should proceed to our business without more delay. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- The vestry was on fire! 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- You'll find a fire in the vestry, on account of the painters. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Chattering on in this way, he led me back to the vestry. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
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