Middle English Dictionary Entry
cathēdrāl adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | cathēdrāl adj. Also cathederal, chathidral. |
| Etymology | OF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Of a diocese or a bishop; ~ chirche, the principal church of a diocese, a cathedral; ~ se, episcopal see.
Associated quotations
- c1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)5715 : Þe king him made bissop þer..Atte heye chirche of winchestre þere is se was ydo, Þat me clupede chirche cathedral.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)2.115 : Bonefas..song in euery cathedral cherche of Wales solempneliche a masse.
- a1400 CMSoul (Bod 923)263 : That penance which is cleped solempne is penaunce that is youen or enioigned on Asch Wodenesday be the bischop in cathedral churches.
- (1408-9) Mem.Ripon in Sur.Soc.81139 : In iij chathedral farr' emp. de Johanne Sutton.
- (1417) Mem.Bk.York in Sur.Soc.120184 : Item, that it be not leful to no maister of the said craft..eny Setterisday efter xij of the clok be strekyn at the cathiderall church of Saynt Petir, to wirke in eny poynt belonging to the same.
- ?a1425(a1400) Brut-1377 (Corp-C 174)323/21 : He..was yburied..in þe cathedral cherch of Avyon.
- ?1435(1432) Lydg.Hen.VI Entry (Jul B.2)423 : For next to Paulis..Is the partye moste chieff and princypall, Callyd off London the chirche cathederall.
- (1442) Let.Bekynton in RS 56.2188 : Th'archbisshop of this cite..in his cathedral chirch radde and declared the said lettres..openly in the pulpitte.
- (c1449) Pecock Repr.(Cmb Kk.4.26)543 : Thei han large and wijde chirchis like sumwhat to cathedral or modir chirchis of diocisis.
- c1450 Alph.Tales (Add 25719)200/2 : In a Cathedrall-kurk of Fraunce þer fell a dis-corde for chesyng of þer bisshopp.
- (1457) Doc.in HMC Var.Col.485 : The Deanrie of the Cathedrall Chirche of Excestre.
- a1475(a1447) Bokenham MAngl.(Hrl 4011)26/3 : Kynge Kenwalk set þe cathedralle-see at Wynchestir.
- a1475 Godstow Reg.(Rwl B.408)370/33 : There beyng present [in 1388]..Maisters Brandon of the Cathedrall chirch of lichefeld and John Botlisham of his chirche of lyncolne.
- c1475 Gregory's Chron.(Eg 1995)197 : And at every chathydralle chyrche of Inglonde.
- a1500(?c1425) Spec.Sacer.(Add 36791)247/13 : The cathedral chirche was wydowe by the deþ of hire bisshop.