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congregation 音標拼音: [k ,ɑŋgrəg'eʃən] n. 集合,會合 集合,會合 congregation n 1: a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church [ synonym: { congregation}, { fold}, { faithful}] 2: an assemblage of people or animals or things collected together; " a congregation of children pleaded for his autograph"; " a great congregation of birds flew over" 3: the act of congregating [ synonym: { congregation}, { congregating}] Congregation \ Con` gre* ga" tion\, n. [ L. congregatio: cf. F. congr[' e] gation.] 1. The act of congregating, or bringing together, or of collecting into one aggregate or mass. [ 1913 Webster] The means of reduction in the fire is but by the congregation of homogeneal parts. -- Bacon. [ 1913 Webster] 2. A collection or mass of separate things. [ 1913 Webster] A foul and pestilent congregation of vapors. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 3. An assembly of persons; a gathering; esp. an assembly of persons met for the worship of God, and for religious instruction; a body of people who habitually so meet. [ 1913 Webster] He [ Bunyan] rode every year to London, and preached there to large and attentive congregations. -- Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster] 4. ( Anc. Jewish Hist.) The whole body of the Jewish people; -- called also { Congregation of the Lord}. [ 1913 Webster] It is a sin offering for the congregation. -- Lev. iv. 21. [ 1913 Webster] 5. ( R. C. Ch.) ( a) A body of cardinals or other ecclesiastics to whom as intrusted some department of the church business; as, the Congregation of the Propaganda, which has charge of the missions of the Roman Catholic Church. ( b) A company of religious persons forming a subdivision of a monastic order. [ 1913 Webster] 6. The assemblage of Masters and Doctors at Oxford or Cambrige University, mainly for the granting of degrees. [ Eng.] [ 1913 Webster] 7. ( Scotch Church Hist.) the name assumed by the Protestant party under John Knox. The leaders called themselves ( 1557) Lords of the Congregation. [ 1913 Webster] Congregation ( Heb. kahal), the Hebrew people collectively as a holy community ( Num. 15: 15). Every circumcised Hebrew from twenty years old and upward was a member of the congregation. Strangers resident in the land, if circumcised, were, with certain exceptions ( Ex. 12: 19; Num. 9: 14; Deut. 23: 1- 3), admitted to the privileges of citizenship, and spoken of as members of the congregation ( Ex. 12: 19; Num. 9: 14; 15: 15). The congregation were summonded together by the sound of two silver trumpets, and they met at the door of the tabernacle ( Num. 10: 3). These assemblies were convened for the purpose of engaging in solemn religious services ( Ex. 12: 27; Num. 25: 6; Joel 2: 15), or of receiving new commandments ( Ex. 19: 7, 8). The elders, who were summonded by the sound of one trumpet ( Num. 10: 4), represented on various occasions the whole congregation ( Ex. 3: 16; 12: 21; 17: 5; 24: 1). After the conquest of Canaan, the people were assembled only on occasions of the highest national importance ( Judg. 20; 2 Chr. 30: 5; 34: 29; 1 Sam. 10: 17; 2 Sam. 5: 1- 5; 1 Kings 12: 20; 2 Kings 11: 19; 21: 24; 23: 30). In subsequent times the congregation was represented by the Sanhedrim; and the name synagogue, applied in the Septuagint version exclusively to the congregation, came to be used to denote the places of worship established by the Jews. ( See { CHURCH}.) In Acts 13: 43, where alone it occurs in the New Testament, it is the same word as that rendered " synagogue" ( q. v.) in ver. 42, and is so rendered in ver. 43 in R. V.
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