Marian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: Christianity
Etymology: Etymology tree
Biblical Hebrew מִרְיָם (miryɔm)bor.
Aramaic מרים (maryam)bor.
Ancient Greek Μᾰρῐ́ᾱ (Mărĭ́ā)bor.
Latin Marīa
Old French Mariebor.
Middle English Marie
English Mary
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Old French -ainder.
Middle English -an
English -an
English Marian
From Mary + -an.
Inflected forms:
form: more Marian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Marian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Marians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the Virgin Mary.
pos: adj
examples: a Marian apparition
Marian devotions
When, e.g., Dr. Pusey and others tell him, on à priori grounds, that his constant and unintermitting worship of Mary lessens his simple trust in Jesus, such a statement can only elicit from him amazement and pity; because he knows, as a matter most strictly within his own personal cognisance, that Marian devotion is among his most efficacious helps for growing in the knowledge and the love of God.
Like the Mass, the cult of the saints and their shrines was a potent meeting of spiritual and physical: a human being who could be guaranteed as having entered heaven had kept a particularly intense relationship with a place on earth and thus rendered it sacred: sometimes through a relic, perhaps the saint's skeleton or a possession, or simply through association with a holy well or past miracle. A special case was Mary, the Mother of God, for whom there could be no bodily relics, since quite early on, both eastern and western Churches had decided that she had entered heaven in a specially privileged way, with a body that had not experienced the normal pains of death. Characteristically, the West had made sure that this devotional concept was turned into a precise doctrine, that of Mary's bodily Assumption. So although Marian shrines were common throughout Europe, particularly in regions which had bred few native saints, they centred not on a bodily relic (apart from various items of clothing and a remarkably generous number of examples of mother's milk), but instead on a representation of the Virgin's body in the form of a statue. In two famous cases, at Walsingham in England and Loreto in Italy, they went further in exhibiting a replica or transmigrated reconstruction of the Holy House in which the Christ-child had grown up in Nazareth; both these Marian shrines enjoyed an unprecedented boom in the fifteenth century, perhaps reflecting a new interest in seeing family life in the context of the life of the Church.
gloss: Of or relating to Mary I of England.
pos: adj
examples: I judge the meaning of it to be, that men who raigne like Lions, Kings and great ones who under the face of men carry the hearts of Tygers; and their Children who equall them in, and inherit their fathers crueltie; and their wives who ſurpaſſe them in Inſolence, and Marian perſecntions;^([sic]) muſt all receive ſuch puniſhments as their ſins deſerve, they end their lives tragically, […]
The Marian bishops had undoubtedly anticipated trouble when the daughter of Anne Boleyn ascended the throne.
Far from being open to dialogue with those of opposing beliefs, the Marian regime effectively shut down interconfessional debate through an uncompromising campaign against Protestants in print, pulpit and, above all, through a brutal programme of persecution.
gloss: Of or relating to Mary, Queen of Scots.
pos: adj
gloss: One of the Scots who remained loyal to Mary, Queen of Scots, in the disputes following her deposition.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Related words: Ave Maria
St Mary's
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