Golgotha
name, noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 A charnel house.
- 2 A hat. UK, obsolete, slang
"[…] to the hat-rail; when Wigg went to put it on, it of course resisted, and giving it a spatch, off came the brim. In his fury at the destruction of his “Golgotha,” Wigg rushed to the counter, and seizing a fifty sovereign brass weight, hurled it […]"
- 1 The hill outside Jerusalem where Jesus was crucified.
""And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha""
- 2 The rooms of the heads of the colleges. obsolete
"But Printing is not the only, nor the principal uſe, for which theſe ſtupendous ſtone-walls were erected; for here is that famous apartment, by idle wits and buffoons nick-named Golgotha, i.e. the place of Sculls or Heads of colleges and halls, where they meet and debate upon all extraordinary affairs, which occur within the precincts of their juriſdiction."
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More examples"The world famous Hungarian painter Mihály Munkácsy's Christ Trilogy includes the paintings entitled "Christ before Pilate", "Golgotha" and "Ecce Homo"."
Etymology
* From the Ancient Greek Γολγοθᾶ (Golgothâ) from the Aramaic גּוּלְגּוּלְתָּא (gulgultā). * (rooms of the heads of the colleges; a hat): Punning on "the place of the skulls/heads".
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