Middle English Dictionary Entry
graiel n.
Entry Info
| Forms | graiel n. Also graile, grei(e)l, graiȝille, & grael, grale, grele. |
| Etymology | AF grahel, grayel & CF gräel, grel. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A service book containing the variable sung scriptural parts of the mass, and also sometimes the other sung parts; (b) the Gradual, a verse and response sung at mass after the Epistle.
Associated quotations
a
- c1380 Vncomly in (Arun 292)p.291 : Mani is the sorwfol song, it sigge upon mi bok..I gowle au mi grayel, and rore als a roke.
- (c1322) Will de Bohun in Archaeol.J.2349 : iij greieles, j manuel, j epistolarie.
- ?c1430(c1400) Wycl.FCLife (Corp-C 296)194 : Ȝif alle þe studie and traueile þat men han now abowte..graielis & alle oþere bokis weren turned in-to makynge of biblis..hou moche schulde goddis lawe be forþered!
- ?c1430 Wycl.Stip.Ministr.(Corp-C 296)202 : Þei neden to have bokis of holy writt..more þan Graielis and oþere bokis of song.
- (1446) Invent.Lytham in Chet.n.s.6029 : iij Grayels.
- (1447) Doc.in HMC Rep.3 App.316a : Item, a Grayles.
- (1455) Acc.St.Ewen in BGAS 15145 : Item, a Grayel noted, whiche begynneth with the Kalender, with this versicle, Prima dies mensis, etc., and endeth with this Evangelye -- Factum est autem cum baptizaretur, etc.
- (1455) Acc.St.Ewen in BGAS 15146 : Item, j Grayel noted, begynnyng with the office of Seynt Anne -- Gaudeamus, etc., and endeth with Agnus Dei, etc.
- (1460-1) Acc.Yatton in Som.RS 4101 : As for the grayell..viij marcs.
- (1466) in Cox Churches Derb.4.85 : iij greles.
- a1500 Mayer Nominale (Mayer)719 : Hoc gradale: a grale.
- ?a1500 Lndsb.Nominale (Lndsb)755 : Hoc gradale: a grayelle.
- c1500 PParv.(Hrl 2274)207 : Grayȝylle: [Gradale, vel gradalis].
b
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)5.231 : Celestinus..ordeynede..þat þe grayel [vr. grael] and þe offertorie schulde be i-seide to fore þe sacrement.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)127b/a : In þe esterne wooke þe graiel [L graduale] is I-songe with alleluia.
- a1425 NHom.Corp.Chr.(Hrl 4196)514 : By ierom and ambrose ordaind es To sing þe graell [vr. grayel] at the mes.
- (a1460) Bokenham Sts. (Adv Abbotsford B3)123.127 (v.2:p.315) : Whanne .. the grayel and othir thyngis were seyd and sunge as yt awte .., the dekne whiche shulde redyn the gospel, comyng to the bysshop .., wook hym.
- c1475(a1449) Lydg.IVMass (Trin-C R.3.21)241 : Aftyr the epystyll foloweth the grayle, Token of Ascendyng vp from gre to gre.
- a1500(?a1390) Mirk Fest.(GoughETop 4)68/35 : Þen scho [the Church] leyþ don tractys, and grayles, and syngyþe dowbull Alleluia.
- a1500(?c1425) Spec.Sacer.(Add 36791)50/36 : All the Paske weke we synge the grayele with 'Alleluia'.
- a1500(?c1425) Spec.Sacer.(Add 36791)51/1 : Be the grayelee we betokeneþ laboure.
- a1500(a1460) Towneley Pl.(Hnt HM 1)172/205 : Lefe pystyls and grales; Mes, matyns noght avalys, All these I defende.