Eccl. (a) A musical composition built on an often original Latin text and sung or chanted at various points during the liturgy and at certain times in the church year; sequence of seinte osmunde, ?a……

(a) Separation; (b) deferral; putten in sequestracioun, to lay aside (a matter), defer; (c) eccl. ?the lawful impounding of goods associated with a vacant benefice; (d) med. ?secretion from a boil……

(a) To remove (sth.); also, quarantine (sb.), isolate; sequestren to, put (sth.) aside for the use of (sb.); (b) sequestren from, to keep (sth.) apart from (sb.); distinguish (sth.) from (sth.)……

Eccl. (a) To absolve (sb.) of sin; -- also without obj.; soilen of sinnes; so god me soile, may God forgive my sins; -- used as a pious oath; (b) to grant remission of sins; soilen to, grant……

Eccl. A member of the lowest clerical order, ranking below the diaconate, a subdeacon; ordre of soudeken; popes soudeken, a subdeacon assisting at papal masses or attached to the Pope's household; (b)……

Eccl. A church official ranking immediately below and acting as an assistant to a dean, a subdean [for PPl. quots. cp. den n.(2) 1.(b)]. …

(a) Constant, steadfast; also, steadfast in virtue, virtuous; stable and stedfast, stedfast (ferm, etc.) and stable; stable in feith (bileve), stable of bileve; (b) of a lover: faithful, true; of……

(a) A place which one normally occupies: a place of business; an official seat, a see; a garrison; also, the men in a garrison; (b) a place in which something is fixed: an anchorage for ships; the……

(a) A long garment; a robe; -- also coll. [quot. a1398]; stoles of bataille, war garments, armor; first stole, the best robe; (b) fig. and in fig. contexts; (c) the robe of a Jewish priest or high……

Eccl. A nun who assists the precentor of a convent. …

Eccl. (a) A member of the lowest clerical order, ranking immediately below the diaconate, a subdeacon; (b) the set of vestments worn by a subdeacon; (c) = soudeken n. (b). …

Eccl. A church official ranking immediately below and acting as an assistant to a dean, a subdean [for 1st quot. cp. den n.(2) 1.(b), for 2nd quot. cp. 1.(a)]. …

A loose-fitting overgarment, usu. of white linen and with wide sleeves, a surplice: (a) eccl. a vestment worn by a priest or other ecclesiastic (a clerk, canon, etc.), usu. for liturgical use; also……

(a) A movable dwelling place, tent, temporary hut; a pavilion; valei of tabernacles, Biblical Succoth, a site of uncertain location in the central Transjordan region; (b) feste of (solempnite of the)……

(a) A small, portable writing tablet made from a slab of wood or other hard material, often covered with wax in which the characters are incised; pl. a set of tablets, usu. tied or hinged together, a……

(a) A small, portable writing tablet made of a durable material, often covered with wax in which the characters are incised; also, a stone or metal tablet bearing an inscription; also, one of the……

(a) Lasting a short time, fleeting; having a finite duration, transitory; (b) temporal imnes, eccl. hymns belonging to the temporale, for use during mass at specific feasts and seasons of the……

(a) Darkness, esp. the darkness at noon accompanying Christ's crucifixion; (b) eccl. Tenebrae, an evening service held during Holy Week at which candles are extinguished one after the other to……

Astron. and geom. A sixtieth part of a second of an arc, one thirty-six hundredth of a minute of an arc. …

(a) A piece of cloth used to wipe something dry; washinge touail, a piece of cloth for wiping or cleansing something [see also washing(e ger. 2.]; (b) a cloth of the length of a table, chiefly for……