Middle English Dictionary Entry
galilẹ̄ n.
Entry Info
| Forms | galilẹ̄ n. Also galilie; (?errors) galie, galeie, galoie. |
| Etymology | ML; cp. CL Galilæa & Galilæus, from Gr. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A small chapel near the entrance of a church; a porch or open gallery; (b) Galilean, as a name for Jesus; (c) a Galilean, as applied to Christ's followers, a Christian; (d) ?the Milky Way [?error for galaxie].
Associated quotations
a
- [ (?a1327) RParl.1.463b : Un lu q'il apelent la Galyleie. ]
- [ (1341-2) Sacrist R.Ely 2117 : Pro hostio galilee. ]
- ?c1450 Trivet Constance (Harv Eng.938)p.246 : Eleyne, the senatours wyfe, and Constaunce, stoode an hygh aboue A Galilee ordeyned opon hygh Greeses so that they myght see the kyng of ynglonde..he roode under the tresaunce of that Galilie.
b
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)8.1628 : The laste woord I fynde that he [Julian the Apostate] spak: 'Thou Gallile hast ouercome in deede!'
- (a1464) Capgr.Chron.(Cmb Gg.4.12)80 : He cried, 'Thou hast ovir come, Thou Galile,' for so cleped he Crist, and no othir name.
c
- (a1460) Bokenham Sts. (Adv Abbotsford B3)70.59 (v.2:p.42) : There was comen a Galilee [viz., Saint Mark] the which despised the sacrifise of goddis.
d
- c1430 Chaucer PF (Cmb Gg.4.27)56 : Affrican seyde, 'Ȝa..rightful folk schul gon aftyr they deye To heuene,' and schewede hym the galylye [vrr. galye, Galeye, Galoye, galaxye].