Middle English Dictionary Entry
crūet n.
Entry Info
| Forms | crūet n. Also creuet, crouet. |
| Etymology | AF; cp. OF cruie, crüe, (ult. Gmc.; cp. OE crūce jug). |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A small vessel for sacramental wine, holy water, or chrism; (b) a jug, bottle, or bowl (as for water); (c) fig.
Associated quotations
a
- c1300 SLeg.Brendan (LdMisc 108)318 : Weued and chaliz and Cruettes.
- c1350(a1333) Shoreham Poems (Add 17376)48/1350 : Taper and crowet To hand me schal hym brynge.
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Zech.14.20 : Cruetis [L phialæ] byfore the auter.
- (1394) Will York in Sur.Soc.4196 : Unum auterclath & iiij crewets.
- (1419) Grocer Lond.(Kingdon)127/12 : j paire crewets of silver.
- (1436-7) Acc.St.Michael Oxf.in OAST 7841 : For a peyr of cruets viii d.
- (1439) Liber Scac.in Archaeol.2137 : A Chalys & ij Cruettes of gold.
- (1454) Grocer Lond.(Kingdon)351/15 : j Peyre cruettes of tyn.
- (1460-65) Acc.St.Andrew Hubbard in BMag.31395 : Payd for..ij Crewettys.
- (1470) Will York in Sur.Soc.45181 : The crowettis and the paxbrede.
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)5.131 : A cruette [L phialam] of golde with bawme brennenge faste in hit.
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)5.291 : Kynge Lodowicus was baptizede on Ester day..a dove come from hevyn havenge a cruette [Trev.: viol; L ampullam] conteynenge creame in her mowthe..of the whiche creame kynges in Fraunce be noyntede.
- (1487) Will Uvedale in SAC 3163 : I will also..there be ordained by myne executors..ii honest cruett of silver ..to serve in the honor of Almighty God at that auter.
b
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Mark 7.4 : Waischingis of cuppis and cruetis [L urceorum].
- c1390(?c1350) Jos.Arim.(Vrn)287 : Two Angeles..eiþer bar in his hond a basyn of seluer; Oþur Tweyne aftur hem with cruetes.
- ?a1425(a1415) Wycl.Lantern (Hrl 2324)15/18 : Þe fifþe aungel pourid his cruet [L phiolam] vpon þe seete of þe beest.
- (1451) Capgr.St.Gilb.(Add 36704)132/25 : Sche broute eke of þat same watir in a crowet, in whech þe holy confessour body was wasched.
- (a1464) Capgr.Chron.(Cmb Gg.4.12)273 : In a corwet of ston.
- a1500(?a1450) GRom.(Hrl 7333)189 : Ionathas hadde þer a crewette [Add: botell] and fillid hit of that water.
c
- c1450 Jacob's W.(Sal 103)116/6,7 : None of hem wyll drynken of my crewettys of temptacyouns..he hath drunkyn of my crewett of euyll thouȝtys.