Middle English Dictionary Entry
peregrināciǒun n.
Entry Info
| Forms | peregrināciǒun n. |
| Etymology | OF peregrinacīon |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A journey, pilgrimage; fig. the human journey through life; (b) time of ~, one of the 'ages' of the world, usually said to comprise the span from the coming of the Holy Spirit to the last Judgment; the corresponding portion of the ecclesiastical calendar.
Associated quotations
a
- c1475 Þe tyme approcheþe (Hrl 2251)p.308 : Pray for vs, that we come by processe Vnto the right wey of saluacioun After this worldly peregrinacioun.
- a1500(?c1425) Spec.Sacer.(Add 36791)177/16 : Who-soeuer schall plese me with his pilgrimage, he must firste make confession to his preste and after in his peregrinacion punysshe his trespasses.
b
- (a1460) Bokenham Sts. (Adv Abbotsford B3)36.80 (v.1:p.258) : In the parte of this boke immedyatly byforne is .. tolde of the festys which fallen in the tyme that is conteyned in partie within the tyme of reconciliacion, & in partie in the tyme of peregrinacion [L (Graesse, p. 145): tempus peregrinationis], which tyme is representid in the chirch from the tyme of our lordis byrthe into Septuagesme.
- (a1460) Bokenham Sts. (Adv Abbotsford B3)87.112 (v.2:p.105) : Now that is seid in this parte past of the festes which falle within the tyme of Reconciliacion, the which tyme representith ws holi chirch from the resurreccion of Criste vnto the vtaas of Pentecoste, now it is convenyent for to speken of the festis which fallen within the tyme of Peregrinacion [L tempus peregrinationis] .., the which tyme the chirche representith vnto vs from the Octaue of Pentecost vnto Aduent .. : the begynning of this tyme .. varieth .. aftir the pascal nombre.