Middle English Dictionary Entry
pās(e n.(2)
Entry Info
| Forms | pās(e n.(2) Also pace, passe. |
| Etymology | From paske n. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Passover; feste of ~, ~ time; (b) Easter; also applied to Yule; ~ dai, Easter Sunday; ~ feste, Easter; ~ time, time of ~, the Easter season.
Associated quotations
a
- a1425 Nicod.(1) (Add 32578)517 : Þe Iuwes were wont euere at þe pace, A man out of þaire prisone take.
- a1425 NPass.(Cmb Gg.5.31)7/44 : A full grete fest it was..Þat passe tyme [vrr. esterne daye, Ester day; pash, paske, paske daye] es called..Þe Iewis honourd þat ilke fest.
- (1440) *Capgr.St.Norb.(Hnt HM 55)828 : Israel out of Egipt went Toward the holy lond at þe fest of Pase.
- a1450 Yk.Pl.(Add 35290)233/4,11 : Here will I holde..The feeste of Paas with frendis in feere..Ilke man..Shall roste a lambe at paas, To hym and his meyne.
b
- a1425 NHom.(3) Leg.Suppl.Hrl.(Hrl 4196)90/807 : Tel him þus..On pase-day next..When men redes of Cristes rising.
- a1450 Ben.Rule(2) (Vsp A.25)1123 : In tyme of winter..Fro þe kalandes of Nouember Vn-to þe pase, es risyng right At þe aght our of þe nyght.
- a1450 Ben.Rule(2) (Vsp A.25)1131 : Fro al tyme of pase..Vn-to þo same kalandes cum eft..nunes sal vnto matens rise Whan þe day be-gyns to daw.
- a1450 Ben.Rule(2) (Vsp A.25)1703 : Fro pas right vnto witsunday, At þe sext our ete sal þai.
- a1450 PPl.B (Cmb Dd.1.17)11.226 : Passe [Ld: Witnesse in þe Paske wyke, whan he ȝede to Emaus].
- c1450 Alph.Tales (Add 25719)298/30 : Leo, þe pape, opon a Pace day said mes.
- (c1450) Capgr.St.Aug.(Add 36704)25/30 : He was baptized of Seynt Ambrose..in þe pase-tyme.
- ?c1450 St.Cuth.(Eg 3309)3393 : Done solempnite of pace, To farne agayne he takes his trace.
- ?c1450 St.Cuth.(Eg 3309)3693 : Othir..leuys wiked in synn, Or in dew tyme haldis noȝt þair pase.
- ?c1450 St.Cuth.(Eg 3309)5477 : Þai halowed pace fest in þat stont With mare gladnes.
- (a1464) Capgr.Chron.(Cmb Gg.4.12)68 : Victor, Pope of Rome..mad a lawe that Pase day schuld be on Sunday evyr betwix the xiiii day of the month and the xxi.
- (a1464) Capgr.Chron.(Cmb Gg.4.12)84 : He ordeyned that..the Pascale schuld be blessed at Pase.
- (a1464) Capgr.Chron.(Cmb Gg.4.12)245 : Now was Pase day go, at whech tyme this duke Robert had behestid he schuld a be in Erland.
- (1472) Doc.in Sur.Soc.8525 : The crosse in the markythe his defectyff &..the Lord sall reperell be Passe day.
- a1500(?a1390) Mirk Fest.(GoughETop 4)129/24 : Þys day is called in sum place Astyr-day, and in sum plase Pase-day, and in sum plas Godis Sonday.
- a1500 Mayer Nominale (Mayer)736/35 : Pascha: pase.