Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A commandment.
- n. The sacrament of the Lord's supper.
- n. The ceremony of washing the feet of poor persons or inferiors, performed as a religious rite on Maundy Thursday in commemoration of Christ's washing the disciples' feet at the last supper. It consists in the washing of the feet of a number of men, generally twelve (in the Western Church usually paupers or poor priests), by a priest, prelate, or sovereign. The custom, of very early origin, is obsolete in the Anglican Church, but is still observed in the Greek Church and in the Roman Catholic Church. See lavipedium, pedilavium.
- n. [capitalized] The office appointed to be read during the ceremony of feet-washing.
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete A commandment.
- n. obsolete The sacrament of the Lord's supper.
- n. The ceremony of washing the feet of poor persons or inferiors, performed as a religious rite on Maundy Thursday in commemoration of Christ's washing the disciples' feet at the Last Supper.
- n. The office appointed to be read during the ceremony of feet-washing.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete The sacrament of the Lord's Supper.
- n. The ceremony of washing the feet of the poor on Maundy Thursday.
- n. The alms distributed in connection with this ceremony or on Maundy Thursday.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a public ceremony on Maundy Thursday when the monarch distributes Maundy money
Examples
“The word maundy comes from the Latin word mandatum (commandment) which is the first word of the Gospel acclamation:”
“The English word "maundy" is derived from the Latin word mandatum, which is the Vulgate's translation of Jesus 'words in John 13: 34: "A new commandment I give unto you, that you love one another.”
“In case I die it would be a karmic accident sent here on earth for my forefathers sins to repent maundy thursday stations of the cross the holy month of lent desolate dissolute man he came he saw his death he need not invent an accident god sent hopes as large as mansions trying to fit in a tattered and torn tent silent scriptures bleeding sorrow”
“Thus the term Mandatum maundy was applied to the rite of the feet-washing on this day.”
“That was very maundy of you to share that with your fellow commenters.”
"Ivan Karamazov said that if God does not exist everything is permitted..."
“And there is a part of the table that he made his supper on, when he made his maundy with his disciples, when he gave them his flesh and his blood in form of bread and wine.”
“Just wait to see me on Maundy Thursday, when I get all maundy.”
“Our readers will here call to mind the good old custom still preserved of the maundy of our British Sovereigns, so called from mandatum, the first word of the first anthem sung during, the washing of the feet.”
“Henry the Eighth, and washed and kissed the feet of fifty-nine poor people, which ceremony was called "keeping his maundy.”
“He superintended the daily maundy or washing of the feet of the poor selected for that purpose.”
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