Middle English Dictionary Entry

pilgrimāǧe n.
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Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)

Note: Cp. pelrinage.
1.
(a) The act of journeying to a holy place; a pilgrimage; ~ of, a pilgrimage to (a specific saint's shrine); ~ doing (going), going on pilgrimage; biheste (voue) of ~, a vow to go on pilgrimage; (b) gon ~, gon in (on, o) ~, fonden in ~, passen in (on, to) ~, wenden ~, wenden in (of, on, o, to, upon) ~, winden on ~, to go on pilgrimage; yede (on) ~, went on pilgrimage; faren on ~, maken viage in ~, travel on a pilgrimage; comen in (on) ~, come on pilgrimage; (c) don (maken) ~, to make a pilgrimage; don (fulfillen, performen) ~, make (one's) pilgrimage; ben (in) ~, be on a pilgrimage; vouen in ~, vow to go on a pilgrimage; (d) a group of pilgrims; (e) a crusade; (f) a place to which pilgrimages are made.
2.
(a) Traveling, a journey; also fig.; gon (maken) ~, to make a trip; gon in (on) ~, travel, journey; riden on ~, wenden ~, journey; (b) sojourning, residing, living as a guest; o ~ transient, non-resident; (c) a foreign journey; a wandering abroad; lond of ~, Canaan; ~ of goddes children, journey to Canaan, Canaan; in ~, abroad, while wandering abroad; on ~, abroad; gon in (on, o) ~, maken ~, wenden ~, wenden in (on, o) ~, to go or travel abroad; yede (of) ~, went abroad; haven in ~, wander in (a land); (d) gon in ~, to go away; ben went on ~, be gone away; ben (gon) in ~ from, be absent from (sb. or sth.); walken ~ bi, of an indecisive person: move by (sth.) without pausing long; senden on ~, send (wine) away for sale; (e) an unorthodox teaching.
3.
(a) Man's journey through life or sojourn in the world, life's pilgrimage; the journey of the soul after death [quot.:?Brampton PPs.(1)]; also, man's destination [quot.: c1390]; fleshli (bodili) ~, ~ of man, ~ of this lif, etc.; (b) a literary, allegorical pilgrimage or journey; (c) 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 (= time of peregrinacion, tempus peregrinationis)..

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Note: With reference to the quot. from Glo.Chron.C (sense 1.(a)), note that "this spelling occurs three more times in the same passage [on f.319r], and once as 'purgrimage,' no doubt an error" -- E.Kooper, personal communication.