英语词汇congregation的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	congregation
词源	congregation. The use of the term flock as a synonym for a church’s congregation has an etymological as well as poetic ba- sis, for congregation derives from the Latin congregare, to flock together, suggesting birds rather than lambs or sheep, however. Daniel Defoe’s verse satire The True-Born Englishman (1710), which sold some 80,000 copies on the streets, had this to say on the subject: Whenever God erects a house of prayer The devil always builds a chapel there; And ‘twill be found upon examination, The latter has the larger congregation.
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