azymiteとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈæzɪmaɪt/
• ハイフネーション: azy‧mite

名詞

azymite (複数形 azymites)

1. (Eastern Orthodoxy, historical, derogatory) One who administers the Eucharist with unleavened bread, in particular a member of the Latin Church or Roman Catholic Church.

   Antonyms: fermentarian, prozymite

   • 1843, Catherine Charlotte Maberly, Melanthe; or, The Days of the Medici: A Tale of the Fifteenth Century, volume 1, page 248:

     “Shall we drink a cup in honour of the Holy Virgin, and confusion to the Azymites?” / “Yes, yes! shouted the multitude. “Away with the Azymites—we want no new religion here;” and, singing and shouting, they threw up their caps in the air, […]

   • 1898, Joseph Epiphane Darras; Martin John Spalding; Charles Ignatius White, A General History of the Catholic Church: From the Commencement of the Christian Era to the Twentieth Century, volume 3, page 602:

     “Away with them!” cried the Greeks; “we want no Latin allies! Away with the worship of the azymites!”

   • 1916, Rothay Reynolds, My Slav Friends, page 15:

     Moreover, the Azymites were often guilty of another monstrous crime: they fasted judaistically on Saturdays.

使用する際の注意点

The word was used pejoratively by some members of the Eastern Orthodox Church to refer to members of the Latin Church or Roman Catholic Church.

別の表記

• Azymite

参照

Further reading

• azymite on Wikipedia.