English Dictionary

Candlemas

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈkæn.dəl.məs/

名詞

The festival in the Christian year celebrated on February 2nd. It commemorates the purification of the Virgin Mary and the presentation of the infant Jesus in the Temple. / A quarter day in Scotland.

日本語の意味

キリスト教の祭日（2月2日）、聖母マリアの清めと幼子イエスの神殿奉献を記念する行事。 / スコットランドにおける四分期日の一つ。

Every year our parish decorates the altar with white candles for Candlemas, and the children carry them in a quiet procession.

毎年私たちの教区では、聖母マリアの清めと幼子イエスの神殿奉献を記念する2月2日の祝日である聖燭祭のために祭壇を白いろうそくで飾り、子どもたちが静かな行列でそれらを持って歩きます。

意味（1）

The festival in the Christian year celebrated on February 2nd. It commemorates the purification of the Virgin Mary and the presentation of the infant Jesus in the Temple.

To make Capons […] [S]ome for this Purpoſe make it their Buſineſs after Harveſt-time to go to Markets for buying up Chickens, and between Michaelmas and All-hollantide caponize the Cocks, when they have got large enough to have Stones [i.e., testes] of ſuch a Bigneſs that they may be pulled out; for if they are too little, it can't be done; […] [M]aking a Cut here big enough to put her Finger in, which ſhe thruſts under the Guts, and with it rakes or tears out the Stone that lies neareſt to it. This done, ſhe performs the very ſame Operation on the other Side of the Cock's Body, and there takes out the other Stone; then ſhe ſtitches up the Wounds, and lets the Fowl go about as at other Times, till the Capon is fatted in a Coup, which is commonly done from Chriſtmas to Candlemas, and after.

意味（2）

A quarter day in Scotland.

Candlemases （ plural ）