Middle English Dictionary Entry
Corpus Christī phr.
Entry Info
| Forms | Corpus Christī phr. |
| Etymology | L |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
The Blessed Sacrament; ~ fest, fest of ~, the feast of the Blessed Sacrament celebrated on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday; ~ plai, play performed in celebration of this feast.
Associated quotations
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)15.381 : As clerkes in corpuschristi feste singen & reden.
- (1417) Mem.Bk.York in Sur.Soc.12563 : Omnes pagine ludi, vocati, Corpus Christi play.
- (1439) LRed Bk.Bristol2.155 : Here light brennyng in the fest of Corporis Christi.
- (1446) Invent.Lytham in Chet.n.s.6029 : j Coupe pro corpor Christi.
- (1454-5) Acc.St.Ewen in BGAS 15147 : Verses yn ryme of benysons of the fest of Corpus Christi.
- (1470) Will York in Sur.Soc.45184 : The gilde of Corporis Christi in the same town.
2.
The Thursday after Trinity Sunday; ~ dai, Corpus dai Christi; ~ even, the evening preceding, or of, Corpus Christi day; Vtas of ~, the octave of Corpus Christi.
Associated quotations
- (1434-5) Acc.St.Michael Oxf.in OAST 7832 : For berynge of the banere polles on corpus Crist ys day.
- (a1438) MKempe A (Add 61823)107/25 : On Corpus Cristi Day aftyr, as þe prestys born þe Sacrament a-bowte þe town wyth solempne processyon.
- (c1438) MKempe B (Add 61823)234/21 : On Corpus Cristi Euyn it lukkyd hem to comyn to a lityl ostage fer fro any towne.
- (c1438) MKempe B (Add 61823)235/24 : It was wyth-inne þe Vtas of Corpus Cristi.
- (c1438) MKempe B (Add 61823)236/7 : Þei comyn at a good town in the Vtas of Corpus Cristi.
- (1443) Proc.Privy C.5.295 : On Corpus day Christi last passed.
- (1444) RParl.5.105b : Upon the Monday after Corpus Cristi day thenne next folowyng.
- (1448) Shillingford67 : On Wendisday next after Corporis Christi day..y rode oute of Exceter.
- c1450(1415) Crowned King (Dc 95)19 : Ones y..caught me in a company on Corpus Christi even.
- (1465) Paston4.150 : Wryten on the Tewysday nex before Corpus Christi.
- (1472) Acc.St.Edm.Sarum6 : j cowpe..servyng on Corpus Christi day for the sacrament..to be born on.