congregation

英 [k??gr?'ge??(?)n] 美[,kɑ?ɡr?'ɡe??n]

反義詞

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復(fù)數(shù):?congregations;形容詞:?congregational;

1. con- "together" + greg- + -ation.
2. => flocking together, herd together.

congregation 教堂會眾

來自congregate, 聚集。

congregation: congregation: [14] Etymologically, a church’s congregation is comparable to a pastor’s flock. The word comes from Latin congregātiō, a noun derivative of congregāre ‘flock together’. This was a compound verb formed from the collective prefix com- and grex ‘flock, herd’ (source of English egregious and gregarious). Congregation was thus originally simply a ‘meeting, assembly’; its religious connotations arose from its frequent use in the 1611 translation of the Bible to render ‘solemn public assembly’. The verb congregate was independently borrowed in the 15th century.
=> aggregate, egregious, gregarious, segregate
congregation (n.): mid-14c., "a gathering, assembly," from Old French congregacion (12c., Modern French congrégation), from Latin congregationem (nominative congregatio), noun of action from congregare (see congregate).

Used by Tyndale to translate Greek ekklesia in New Testament and by some Old Testament translators in place of synagoge. (Vulgate uses a variety of words in these cases, including congregatio but also ecclesia, vulgus, synagoga, populus.) Protestant reformers in 16c. used it in place of church; hence the word's main modern sense of "local society of believers" (1520s).

1. The congregation fell back from them slightly as they entered.: 教堂會眾在他們進(jìn)來時(shí)稍稍往后退了退。

2. Most members of the congregation begin arriving a few minutes before services.: 禮拜儀式開始前幾分鐘，大部分教堂會眾陸續(xù)到來。

5. The preacher addressed a congregation of more than one thousand people.: 傳教士向一千多人的會眾講演.