About Report a problem

Menu

theophania

theophania [LL < θεοφάνεια, θεοφάνια] 1 appearance of God to man. b (also dies ~iae Christi or sim.) festival celebrating the appearance of God to man (Epiphany). his quidem frequentes fiunt sed semper breves et citissime disparentes ~ie, sanctorum revelantur splendores et exsultationes Dei in cordibus eorum. ‥ in ~iis his brevis quidem hora et parva mora H. Bos. Thom. III 13; de illo manifestationis genere quod preexcellenter ~ia dicitur Id. LM 1369B (cf. ib. 1369C: divine iste apparitiones que ~ie dicuntur, que animam tam vehementi desiderio anxiam crebro refocillant); cavendus est error dicentium Deum non videri nisi quibusdam ~iis aut divinis apparitionibus Peckham QA 174.  b in ~ia seu epiphania domini Bede Hom. I 12. 58A tit.; octavas idus colitur theophania Christi Kal. Met. 2; sic permansit a ~ia Domini usque ad Letaniam Majorem Lantfr. Swith. 26; sicque theophania Christi permansit ab alma, / idibus octavis Janum relevante capella Wulf. Swith. II 478; regali tumulato more ante diei missam ~iorum Herm. Arch. 22; a natali Domini usque ad octavam Teophanie [Inst. Cnuti: Epiphanie] (Cons. Cnuti) GAS 297; die ~ie sepultus est W. Malm. GR II 228. 2 (as personal name). 1301 versus Theophaniam que fuit uxor Johannis de Bulemere PlRCP 135 m. 197d..

Saved

Recent