jubilee 音标拼音: [dʒ'ubəl
, i] [dʒ
, ubəl'i]
n .
50 年节;大赦年;
50 周年庆
50 年节;大赦年;
50 周年庆
jubilee n 1 :
a special anniversary (
or the celebration of it )
Jubilee \
Ju "
bi *
lee \,
n . [
F .
jubil ['
e ],
L .
jubilaeus ,
Gr . ?,
fr .
Heb .
y [=
o ]
bel the blast of a trumpet ,
also the grand sabbatical year ,
which was announced by sound of trumpet .]
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1913 Webster ]
1 . (
Jewish Hist .)
Every fiftieth year ,
being the year following the completion of each seventh sabbath of years ,
at which time all the slaves of Hebrew blood were liberated ,
and all lands which had been alienated during the whole period reverted to their former owners . [
In this sense spelled also ,
in some English Bibles , {
jubile }.]
--
Lev .
xxv .
8 -
17 .
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2 .
The joyful commemoration held on the fiftieth anniversary of any event ;
as ,
the jubilee of Queen Victoria '
s reign ;
the jubilee of the American Board of Missions .
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3 . (
R .
C .
Ch .)
A church solemnity or ceremony celebrated at Rome ,
at stated intervals ,
originally of one hundred years ,
but latterly of twenty -
five ;
a plenary and extraordinary indulgence granted by the sovereign pontiff to the universal church .
One invariable condition of granting this indulgence is the confession of sins and receiving of the eucharist .
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4 .
A season of general joy .
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The town was all a jubilee of feasts . --
Dryden .
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5 .
A state of joy or exultation . [
R .] "
In the jubilee of his spirits ." --
Sir W .
Scott .
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73 Moby Thesaurus words for "
jubilee ":
anniversaries ,
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annual holiday ,
bicentenary ,
bicentennial ,
biennial ,
birthday ,
bissextile day ,
celebrating ,
celebration ,
centenary ,
centennial ,
ceremony ,
commemoration ,
decennial ,
diamond jubilee ,
dressing ship ,
elation ,
exultation ,
fanfare ,
fanfaronade ,
festivity ,
flourish of trumpets ,
golden wedding anniversary ,
holiday ,
holy days ,
hoopla ,
immovable feast ,
jubilance ,
jubilation ,
leap year ,
marking the occasion ,
memorialization ,
memory ,
merriment ,
name day ,
natal day ,
observance ,
octennial ,
ovation ,
quadrennial ,
quasquicentennial ,
quincentenary ,
quincentennial ,
quinquennial ,
raucous happiness ,
rejoicing ,
religious rites ,
remembrance ,
revel ,
rite ,
ritual observance ,
salute ,
salvo ,
septennial ,
sesquicentennial ,
sextennial ,
show of joy ,
silver wedding anniversary ,
solemn observance ,
solemnization ,
tercentenary ,
tercentennial ,
testimonial ,
testimonial banquet ,
testimonial dinner ,
toast ,
tribute ,
tricennial ,
triennial ,
triumph ,
wedding anniversary ,
whoopee Jubilee a joyful shout or clangour of trumpets ,
the name of the great semi -
centennial festival of the Hebrews .
It lasted for a year .
During this year the land was to be fallow ,
and the Israelites were only permitted to gather the spontaneous produce of the fields (
Lev .
25 :
11 ,
12 ).
All landed property during that year reverted to its original owner (
13 -
34 ;
27 :
16 -
24 ),
and all who were slaves were set free (
25 :
39 -
54 ),
and all debts were remitted .
The return of the jubilee year was proclaimed by a blast of trumpets which sounded throughout the land .
There is no record in Scripture of the actual observance of this festival ,
but there are numerous allusions (
Isa .
5 :
7 ,
8 ,
9 ,
10 ;
61 :
1 ,
2 ;
Ezek .
7 :
12 ,
13 ;
Neh .
5 :
1 -
19 ;
2 Chr .
36 :
21 )
which place it beyond a doubt that it was observed .
The advantages of this institution were manifold . "
1 .
It would prevent the accumulation of land on the part of a few to the detriment of the community at large .
2 .
It would render it impossible for any one to be born to absolute poverty ,
since every one had his hereditary land .
3 .
It would preclude those inequalities which are produced by extremes of riches and poverty ,
and which make one man domineer over another .
4 .
It would utterly do away with slavery .
5 .
It would afford a fresh opportunity to those who were reduced by adverse circumstances to begin again their career of industry in the patrimony which they had temporarily forfeited .
6 .
It would periodically rectify the disorders which crept into the state in the course of time ,
preclude the division of the people into nobles and plebeians ,
and preserve the theocracy inviolate ."
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