Pentecost

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. özel isim Synonym of Shavuot (“a Jewish harvest festival which falls on the sixth day of Sivan in the spring, fifty days after the second day of the Passover when the omer (“sheaf of barley”) is offered; a ceremony held on that day to commemorate the giving of the Torah (“first five books of the Hebrew scriptures”) to Moses and the Israelites on Mount Sinai”).

   “Novv vvhen I vvas come home againe, & my vvife Anna vvas reſtored vnto me vvith my ſonne Tobias, in the feaſt of Pentecoſte, vvhich is the holy feaſt of the ſeuen vvekes, there vvas a great dinner prepared me, in the vvhich I ſate dovvne to eat.”

2. özel isim A festival which falls on the seventh Sunday after Easter which commemorates the event described in Acts 2 of the Bible when the Holy Spirit descended upon the Apostles during the Jewish festival of Pentecost (proper noun sense 1), conferring on them the miraculous ability to explain the gospel in languages they did not know; also, the Sunday on which the festival is celebrated.

   “Pentecost, day of rejoicing, had come. The church of our village / Stood gleaming white in the morning's sheen.”

3. özel isim In full day of Pentecost or Pentecost day: the day on which the event commemorated by the festival (proper noun sense 2) occurred; also, the event itself.

   “But pray in vvhat language did Remi preach to theſe Bructeri and Sicambri? He ſpoke either Latin or VVelſh; and the Sicambri ſpoke the antient Teutonic. Remi, in all appearance, renevved the miracle of the Pentecoſt: Et unuſquiſquis intendebat linguam ſuam, And each underſtood his ovvn language.”

4. özel isim Synonym of Whitsuntide (“the week beginning on Whitsunday; also, the weekend which includes Whitsunday”).
5. özel isim The gift of the Holy Spirit to a Christian; also, the occurrence of this.

   “Ever the fiery Pentecost / Girds with one flame the countless host, / Trances the heart through chanting choirs, / And through the priest the mind inspires.”

6. özel isim A surname.