Maundyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔːn.di/

名詞

maundy (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 maundies)

1. (obsolete) A commandment.
2. (obsolete) The sacrament of the Lord's supper.
   • 1357, John Mandeville, The Travels of Sir John Mandeville‎^[1]:

     And also they make their sacrament of the altar of Therf bread, for our Lord made it of such bread, when he made his Maundy.

3. (Christianity) 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.
4. (Christianity) The office appointed to be read during the religious ceremony of foot-washing.

同意語

• (foot-washing ceremony): nipter

派生語

• Maundy Thursday