Middle English Dictionary Entry
patē̆n(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | patē̆n(e n. Also patein(e, patin, paiten, pattene & patent. |
| Etymology | OF patene & ML patena. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Eccl. (a) The plate which holds the sacramental bread during the celebration of the Mass; (b) the cover of the chalice which holds the sacramental wine; chalice ~, a chalice cover.
Associated quotations
a
- (c1300) Havelok (LdMisc 108)187 : Þe king..þer-on leyde þe messebok, Þe caliz, and þe pateyn ok.
- c1350(a1333) Shoreham Poems (Add 17376)52/1444 : He takþ þe chalys wyþ þe wyne, And brede of þe pateyne [rime: seyne].
- c1390(?c1350) SVrn.Leg.(Vrn)57/996 : Bernard seide Pax domini; Goddus bodi he tok þen And leyde vppon þe paten.
- a1400(c1303) Mannyng HS (Hrl 1701)10057 : Hym þoght þe prest broȝte on þe pateyn [vr. patin] Morselles of þe chylde alle newe sleyn.
- a1425 Roy.17.C.17 Nominale (Roy 17.C.17)648/8 : Nomina pertinencia ecclesie..patena: patent.
- ?a1425(a1400) Brut-1377 (Corp-C 174)311/32 : Karoll leyd his right honde on the patene wiþ Goddis body, & his left hand on þe missale.
- (1440) *Capgr.St.Norb.(Hnt HM 55)289 : Onclennesse whech is I-founde On þe auter..schal be taken oute, Leyd on þe patene or on sum othir þing.
- (1469-70) Acc.St.Edm.Sarum13 : Reparacio infra ecclesiam et extra..Et eidem Margerie pro le burnysshynge candelabrorum de argento and..pro emend' vnius Pattene and pro argento eidem addito in toto iij s. iiij d.
- c1475 Gregory's Chron.(Eg 1995)86 : Charlys dyd do syng a masse..and..layde his ryght honde uppon the patent, were uppo lay Goddys owne precyus body.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)93a : A paten: patena.
- a1486(a1460) Coron.Kings Eng.in Archaeol.57 (Mrg M 775)48 : The crosse, the patene, the septir, and the kyngis rodde, the whiche bene thingis of Ryalte, schull be bore in the procession bi the abbot.
- ?a1500 Lndsb.Nominale (Lndsb)754/1 : Nomina ecclesie nessessaria..paterna: a patyn.
b
- (1397) Inquis.Miscel.(PRO)6.224 : [A silver-gilt] chalis [with a] vernicle [engraved on the] patyn.
- (a1430) Invent.Randolf in Archaeol.61173 : j chalys of silver broken wt the paten and the fote gild.
- c1430(a1410) Love Mirror (Brsn e.9)314 : Priuely I hilede the chalice with the patene and the patene with the corporase.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)385 : Patene or pateyne [vrr. patent, paten, payten] of a chalys: Patena.
- a1456(a1449) Lydg.Corp.Chr.(Trin-C R.3.20)126 : O þe chalyce patyn a chylde yong of age Shewed affter þere þe consecracyoun.
- (1454) Grocer Lond.(Kingdon)351 : Item, j Chalise of syluer..wt þe patene, weyinge xviij vnces demi.
- (1454) Will York in Sur.Soc.30189 : j chalis..with j lambe graven in ye patyn.
- (1466) Rec.St.Stephen in Archaeol.5034 : Item, another chalex ouergyldid wt a scochon on the fote ther of..And in the patent ther of an ymage of the trinite.
- (1472) Acc.St.Edm.Sarum4 : Chalices: Furst j Chalice with j patent bothe through gilt.
- (1476-78) Acc.St.Andrew Hubbard in BMag.3234 : Where that a Chalyce with a patent weying togider xviij ounces..hit is so now the patent of the said Chalyce was lost in defaut of Richard now Clerk of the said Chirch and a new patent ordeyned.
2.
A plate, platter, flat dish.
Associated quotations
- (?1340) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.99203 : In coquina..Item, 2 patene bone.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)196b/a : Quik siluer..is y-made of myneus y-do in concaues Of yre and a paten or a shelle y-do þer vnder.
- (1400) Doc.in Collect.Topogr.169 : Coquina..iij patene.
- (c1430) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.9960 : Item, in 3 vangis et 1 shovele, 11 d.; Item, in emendacione 1 patene, 6 d.