Middle English Dictionary Entry
pax-brēd n.
Entry Info
| Forms | pax-brēd n. Also -brede, -breid(e, paxebrede, pakisbrede. |
| Etymology | From pax n. & brēd n.(2). |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A pax-board [see pax (a)].
Associated quotations
- (1350) Doc.in Riley Mem.Lond.263 : [One] paxbred [covered with a silver plate, with a gilded image on it of the Holy Trinity].
- (1381) Doc.in EGilds233 : [For the altar of the gild..a] paxbrede.
- (1395) EEWills5/22 : To the same Iohane my doughter I bequethe a chales and a paxbred.
- (1395) Will York in Sur.Soc.457 : Item, j paxbreyd et super-altare.
- (1397) Inquis.Miscel.(PRO)6.111 : [A portable altar, a] paxbred, [part of an old missal].
- (1415) Reg.Chichele in Cant.Yk.S.42 (Lamb 69)47 : A paxbred of laton and overgilte.
- (1416) Plea & Mem.R.Lond.Gildh.53 : [One] paxbrede [of silver of the value of 13 s. 4 d.].
- (c1422) Invent.Norwich in Nrf.Archaeol.12198 : j paxbrede argenti deaurati..ij paxbredes de putyr.
- (1429) Will Braybroke in Ess.AST 5306 : I wol..that a pax brede of siluer and gilt..be deliuered to ye cherche of Horsyndon.
- (1431) Instrum.Pax in Antiq.33212 : iij lyttel paxbredes of tre.
- (1436) Will York in Sur.Soc.3075 : I be wytt to ye auter..a chales, a corporax, a paxbrede.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)388 : Pax brede: Osculatorium.
- (1445) MSS Middleton in HMC : Item, I bequethe..ij fyallz of sylver with a paxbreyde of sylver.
- (1447) Acc.St.Mary Thame in BBOAJ 11118 : Item, a paxbrede of the resurecion of Crist.
- (1447) St.Alb.in RS 28.5 pt.1 (Hrl 3775)450 : Item, unum pakysbrede.
- a1450 As I went on Yole (Sln 2593)p.309 : Jankyn at the Angnus beryt the paxbrede; He twynkelid, but sayd nowt, and on myn fot he trede.
- (1463) Will Bury in Camd.4929 : I wil that the berere of the paxbrede longyng to Seynt Marye awter..haue yeerly viij d.
- (1472) Acc.St.Edm.Sarum6 : Item, a pax brede of silver gilt with a Crucifixe and Mary & John.
- (1477) Will York in Sur.Soc.4101 : Unam paxbrede vocatam relik.
- ?a1500 Lndsb.Nominale (Lndsb)756/14 : Osculatorium: a paxbrede.
- -?-(1407) Will in Som.RS 1628 : [A pair of vestments] cum facitergiis paxebrede.