Middle English Dictionary Entry
sinod n.
Entry Info
| Forms | sinod n. Also sinode, sinodus & (early) sinoð(e, sinað. |
| Etymology | OE seonoþ, sinoþ, synod, sinað & L syn(h)odus. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) An ecclesiastical gathering, esp. a meeting of bishops; a church council; also used jocularly [last quot.]; ~ nicene, nicene ~; bidden ~, to call a council; hauen (holden, maken) ~, hold an ecclesiastical gathering; (b) a formal meeting; hauen (holden) ~, to hold a meeting.
Associated quotations
a
- a1121 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.656 : Theodorus..heold his sinoþ mid his biscopes & mid þe lerede folc..Þis sinað was ge halden æfter ure Drihtnes acennednesse seox hundred wintra & iii & hund seofenti wintra.
- a1121 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.675 : Ic beode æc þet þe scyr biscop ne seo swa dyrstlece þet he ne hading ne haleging ne do on þis abbot rice buton seo abbot hit him bidde ne biscop wite ne sinað ne nanes kinnes þing na haue þær nan onsting.
- (a1382) WBible(1) Prols.Judith (Bod 959)2.602 : But for this boc Nycene synod [L sinodus] in the noumbre of holi scripturis is rad to han countid, I assentide to ȝoure asking.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)5.145 : In þe Synodus Nicena were þre hondred bisshoppes and eyȝtene; Þat synodus was i-made..aȝenst þe Arianns..Seint Nicolas was at þat synod.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)5.231 : By help of Theodocius þe emperour..þe þridde greet synode of þre hondred bisshoppes was i-made at Ephisus.
- c1425 Liber de Hyda in RS 45249 : Athelgar archebyshop had the same tyme a gret synod at London.
- (c1400) Higd.(1) (Hrl 1900)7.511 : Thanne the se was voyde about an thre ȝere, and there was made a synod for the electioun of the bischop.
- (a1402) Trev.DCur.(Hrl 1900)44/29 : Þere alle religious men beþ acursed in dede, þat assoyleþ eny men þat beþ acursed by statutes of prouynces oþer of synodes.
- a1500 MSerm.Mol.(Adv 19.3.1)82 : Thryis sche sende aftur the iiij ssynodes of Rome to wytte why..that Alelya was closud.
b
- a1150(OE) Vsp.D.Hom.Nicod.(Vsp D.14)80/10 : Þiss heo atealden eall on heora sinoðe.
- a1150(OE) Vsp.D.Hom.Nicod.(Vsp D.14)80/17 : Annas & Caiphas cwæðen to eallen þan sinoðe, [etc.].
- c1175(?OE) HRood (Bod 343)28/33 : Ða iudeiscæn þa mucele sinoð heom bitweonon hæfden.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)12645 : Noðeles a þan ende, enne ræd heo ifunden þat was þurh þa senaturs þa þet sinað heolden.
- c1225(OE) Wor.Aelfric Gloss.(Wor F.174)538/33 : Sinodus, sinoþ, uel imot.