Middle English Dictionary Entry
omelī(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | omelī(e n. |
| Etymology | OF omelie & ML homilia, omelia; from Gr. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Eccl. A homily or sermon; esp. a discourse on a scriptural passage; ?also, a story, a relation [quot.: St.Anne]; bok of omelies, a homiliary.
Associated quotations
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)2.183 : Gregorie in an omelye [Higd.(2): omely; L omilia] seiþ þat man haþ beynge wiþ stones..and vnderstondynge wiþ aungels.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)5.49 : Zephirinus..made menye omelyes and pistlis.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)5.237 : Seint Maximus..made noble omelyes [L homeliis], and..he made þat famous omelye of martires.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars.(Manly-Rickert)I.1088 : Of the translacioun of..bookes of legendes of seintes and Omelies and moralitee and deuocioun, that thanke I oure lord Iesu Crist.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)5.1901 : Gregoire upon his Omelie Ayein the Slouthe of Prelacie Compleigneth him.
- c1425 Arderne Fistula (Sln 6)7/15 : Also in another place, in an omely vpon the gospel of the sonez of Zebedee..seid he..'May ȝe drink þe chalice þat I am to drink?'
- c1450(c1440) Scrope Othea (StJ-C H.5)23/10 : Seint Gregor seith in his Omelies [vr. Omelyis] that men scholde haue the prechoures of Holi Scripture in greete reuerence.
- ?c1400 CGosp.Prol.Luke.(Bod 143:F&M)p.ix : Alquin alleggith myche the grete Origen, Epiphanye, Eusebie, and Maximus, famouse in omelies.
- c1450(?c1400) 3 KCol.(1) (Cmb Ee.4.32)10/29 : Sermouns and omelyes þat be drawe oute of diuers bokys be thus write togedir and pute in to one boke.
- c1450 Capgr.Rome (Bod 423)85 : Seynt Gregory..ordeyned þese staciones..and prechid þere, as we may notabilly parceyue in many of his omelies.
- (c1450) Capgr.St.Aug.(Add 36704)57/3 : Be-side þese werkys he mad many a book, tretys, epistoles, sermones, omelies.
- (c1456) Pecock Faith (Trin-C B.14.45)305 : That in the tyme of Austyn..the comoun crede hadde not this seid article, it is open bi dyverse and manye omelies and exposiciouns, which Austyn and the othere seid fadris maden.
- (1458) Visit.St.Paul in Camd.n.s.5573 : Sunt ibidem vnum missale..vnum Gradale..vnum Antiphonarium..vnum processionale..et quod ligatur vt supra, vnus liber de omelys.
- (a1464) Capgr.Chron.(Cmb Gg.4.12)115 : Of this Ode have I sey dyvers werkes: On upon the Sauter and a gret book of Omelies.
- c1475(c1445) Pecock Donet (Bod 916)83/4 : Þis now seide discrecioun..allowiþ ful wel..seynt gregorye in his writing vpon ezechiel in þe first partie, þe ixe omely.
- c1475 St.Anne(2) (Trin-C R.3.21)421 : And so forth the verrey pleyne Omely Of dyuerse tretyse ys drawyn oute.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)88b : Omely: omelia.
- a1500(?a1400) SLChrist (Hrl 3909)4569 : Sayn Gregory in his omely schowes thes skilles..whi faurty daies continuely we fasten byfore Pasche daie.
- a1500 Craft Dying (Rwl C.894)411 : Be pacience mannys soule is trewly had and kept, so be vnpacience & murmuracion it is loste & dampned, wittnessyng seynt Gregory in his omely.