maundy
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English maundee, maunde, from Old French mandée (“mandated”), from Latin mandatum (“commandment”). Doublet of mandate. The word came to refer to the foot-washing ceremony performed on Thursday before Easter because of the phrase used by Jesus to explain his act of foot-washing, which in the Latin Vulgate begins: Mandatum novum do vobis ut diligatis invicem ..., i.e. "A new commandment I give unto you: That you love one another …" (John 13:34).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
maundy (countable and uncountable, plural maundies)
- (obsolete) A commandment.
- (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.
- (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.
- (Christianity) The office appointed to be read during the religious ceremony of foot-washing.
Synonyms[edit]
- (foot-washing ceremony): nipter
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Translations[edit]
commandment — see commandment
sacrament of the Lord's supper
ceremony of washing the feet of poor persons or inferiors
office to be read during the foot-washing ceremony
References[edit]
- “maundy”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Further reading[edit]
foot washing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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