Law & gov. (a) Declare null and void: deny (a claim), dismiss (an accusation), quash (an indictment); cancel or revoke (a charter, a privilege); set aside or repeal (an order, statute, or law); (b)……

Fulfillment, satisfaction, reparation; maken (don) asseth, give satisfaction: (a) fulfillment of a wish, expectation or requirement; (b) fulfilling of a need; (c) satisfactory answer to a question or……

A singer, composer, poet, minstrel; also used fig. of the cock. …

Eccl. & theol. (a) The sacrament of penance or reconciliation; -- also personified; penaunce of the chirche, sacrament of penaunce; bok o (of) penaunce, a treatise on penance, a penitential; taken……

(a) Persons, human beings, men and women; -- also pl.; gret (muche) peple, many people [see also muche adj. 2. (b)]; congregacioun of peple, a crowd of people; (b) the general public, everyone, all……

(a) Food for domesticated animals, fodder; provendre for hors, hors provendre; (b) food for people; also fig.; (c) eccl. the stipend of a member of the chapter of a cathedral or collegiate church, a……

(a) Eccl. One to whom the pope has granted the right to be appointed to a benefice as soon as a vacancy occurs; also, a religious to whom the pope has granted exemption from the duty of obedience to……

Eccl. Residing where one's church duties are performed, residentiary. …

(a) A reply, an answer; (b) eccl. a series of verses and responses said or sung alternately by a soloist and a choir or congregation, a responsory; (c) arch. a semi-pillar attached to a wall to……

(a) The act of offering a life (animal or human) to a deity as an act of propitiation or homage, a ritual slaughter, often followed by immolation of the victim; the formal offering up of produce, a……

(a) Robbing, looting, theft; also, an instance or act of robbing or stealing; (b) eccl. holding a benefice properly belonging to another. …

(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) 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). …

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) Lasting a short time, fleeting; having a finite duration, transitory; (b) temporal imnes, ?eccl. hymns for use during mass at different times and seasons. …

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……

The state of having three parts, threefoldness, threeness; also, a threesome, triad, trio. …