Middle English Dictionary Entry
lavācre n.
Entry Info
| Forms | lavācre n. |
| Etymology | L lavācrum |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A place for washing; baptemes ~, the baptismal font.
Associated quotations
- c1400(?a1387) PPl.C (Hnt HM 137)20.71 : He [the samaritan]..Enbaumede hym and bond hus heuede..And ledde hym forth to lauacrum, lex dei, a graunge..And lefte hym þere a lechinge.
- a1500 Mirror Salv.(Beeleigh)p.49 : First Jordan, the figure of haly baptesme, thay passed, Are thai ware in the lande of gods promissionne entred; Right so be baptesmes lauacre [L lavacrum baptismi] mot ilk man have passing.