“Chad、farthing”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

Chad-farthing

释义

† Chad-farthing Obs.
[app. from name of St. Chad, patron saint of Lichfield.]
(See quot.)
c1588Comm.-pl. bk. R. Columbell, Darley Hall, Derbysh. [Diocese of Lichfield] in Rel. Ant. I. 255 A dewtye belonging of oulde tyme to the churches. Every house payd at Easter..j farthynge called a waxfarthinge, and another called a chaddfarthinge..the chaddfarthinge to hallow the fonte for christining of children and for oyle and creame to anoyle sicke folkes wyth.1806Harwood Hist. Lichfield 109 Called Whitsun-farthings or Pentecostals, because it was usually given on Midlent or Whitsunday; and at Lichfield it was called Chad-pennies or Chad-farthings, in allusion to the founder of the cathedral.
Chad-pennies, ‘pennies paid at the cathedral of Lichfield, dedicated to St. Chad, on Whit-Sunday, in aid of the repairs’ (Brewer Dict. Phr. & Fable).
1806[see above].

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