| 词汇 | vestry |
| 释义 | vestry noun[ C ] uk /ˈves.tri/ us /ˈves.tri/(alsosacristy) a room in a church, especially one in which priests and the group of people who sing in church put on the special clothes they wear for church ceremonies, and in which things used in church ceremonies are sometimes kept（教堂的）祭衣圣器储藏室，祭衣室 Parts of religious buildings altar apse belfry bell tower chancel cloister confessional crypt flying buttress font gargoyle nave pew pulpit rood screen rose window sanctuary steeple transept vault Examples of vestryvestry The early eighteenth-century activities of the vestry were unusually bold across a wide front. On occasion individuals refused to serve on the vestry because they probably felt they had already done sufficient service. However, despite these failures, it is the value rural vestries placed on the education of poor children that is revealing. He avidly collected vestry minutes to prove this point later in life. In 1617 the need for more urgent repairs became apparent and the vestry resorted to arm-twisting. Without detailed vestry minutes, evidence on the subject is fragmentary. Furthermore, the small tenements act was voluntary : it was parish vestries who decided whether it should be adopted. The forum that enabled them to do so was the parish vestry, a body whose constitution remains obscure. Of course one might argue that the small numbers receiving relief meant that vestries could afford to be generous. Needs changed, and at monthly meetings during the remainder of the year the vestry agreed to adjustments in both names and amounts on the list. The role of the vestry envisioned in the act may well have accorded with local views in rural settlements. It is also evident in the drift towards pruning participation in the vestry as more select vestries of ' substantial ' parishioners were set up after 1600. Even where overseers of the poor were chosen, they remained subordinate to the vestry, which still set the poor rate and distributed it. In the 1660s, thirty-eight individuals served on the vestry, seven of them attending more than half of the ten meetings. In the 1740s, thirty men served on the vestry, ten of them attending more than half the meetings. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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