Search Constraints

Number of results to display per page

Search Results

1. advocacīe, advō̆cātie n.

Additional spellings: advocatie
5 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
Law (a) the activity of a professional pleader in courts of law, advocacy; (b) the advocacy performed by a prosecutor, a charge or accusation; (c) theol. intercession or advocacy on behalf of a sinner…

2. apprōpriāble adj.

1 quotation in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
Theol. appropriately applied, attributable.

3. assīse n.

166 quotations in 12 senses
Sense / Definition
(a) A session of a court charged with the deliberation and disposition of civil actions (esp. actions concerning land tenure and imprisonment); the deliberations of such a court (the gathering of…

4. bidel n.

39 quotations in 3 senses
Sense / Definition
One who makes announcements or carries messages and performs other services on the authority of a lord, court, guild, etc.; herald, town crier, summoner; bidel hod, a beadle's hood; bidel land (a…

5. circumincessiǒun n.

1 quotation in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
Theol. a term describing the mutuality within the Trinity (literally 'going around').

6. cō-ordinātī̆f adj.

Additional spellings: coordinatif
1 quotation in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
Theol. having a coordinating effect, harmonizing.

7. dampnāble adj. (& adv.)

24 quotations in 2 senses
Sense / Definition
(a) Reprehensible, blameworthy; deserving of condemnation; (b) harmful, damaging.

8. dampnāciǒun n.

38 quotations in 2 senses
Sense / Definition
(a) Judicial condemnation; sentencing, conviction; also, death sentence; hous of dampnacioun, ?a law court or tribunal; (b) doom, ruin, injury.

9. dampnen v.

95 quotations in 5 senses
Sense / Definition
To pass adverse judgment upon (sth., sb.); condemn or repudiate (a doctrine); object to or condemn (a practice); ban (a book); blame, censure or criticize (sb.).

10. elevātī̆f adj.

1 quotation in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
Theol. having an uplifting effect, elevating.

11. incarnāciǒun n.

39 quotations in 3 senses
Sense / Definition
(a) Theol. The Christian doctrine that God became man, Christ's incarnation; cristes incarnacioun, incarnacioun of the lord, etc.; taken incarnacioun of, to assume human form from (the Blessed…

12. mediāciǒun n.

46 quotations in 2 senses
Sense / Definition
(a) Mediation, negotiation; also, intermediation [quot.: a1475(?a1430)]; bi (thurgh, with)..mediacioun, with (someone's) help, through the good offices (of sb.); (b) means; bi mediacioun (and mene,

13. mediāt(e adj.

Additional spellings: mediate
6 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
(a) Intermediate, median, mean; mediat doing, intermediary action, performance by an agent or instrument; lordes mediates, mesne lords; (b) theol. intercessory; of Christ: ben mediat to, ?to intercede…

14. omniscient adj.

1 quotation in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
Theol. omniscient; -- as attributed to God.

15. prē̆dicāble adj.

2 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
Theol. attributable, predicable.

16. Pū̆blicā̆n n.(2)

1 quotation in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
Theol.?A member of the heretical Paulician sect.

17. purgā̆tōrī(e n.

Additional spellings: purgatorie
72 quotations in 4 senses
Sense / Definition
(a) Theol. A place or condition of temporal punishment for the spiritual cleansing after death of souls destined for heaven, purgatory; (b) chirche sleping in purgatori, soules in purgatori, the…

18. repā̆st(e n.

Additional spellings: repaste
20 quotations in 2 senses
Sense / Definition
(a) A meal; a feast; also fig.; (b) food; nourishment; also fig.; (c) theol. Christ om the Eucharist.

19. sāvā̆ble adj.

8 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
(a) Saving, protecting; (b) theol. capable of being saved; also, as noun: the savable, those who can be saved; (c) med. curable, able to be healed.

20. transsubstansinge ger.

1 quotation in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
Theol. The effecting of the transformation of the consecrated bread into the body of Christ during the Eucharist.