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) A drinking vessel, such as a bowl, beaker, or goblet; wine chalice; (b) chalice cuppe, chalice pece, chalice shape. …

(a) A division or section of a book; chapter, paragraph; (b) a short Scriptural or patriotic passage read during a service; a lesson. …

(a) A division in a piece of writing; specif., a section of a book in the Bible; (b) a passage from the Scriptures read at a service; (c) a summary or capitulation; (d) a subject treated in a separate……

Eccl. A nun who sings or leads the singing; chorister, precentor. …

(a) A dialogue, discourse, or narrative; collaciouns, bok of collacioun, the Dialogues (of the pious fathers of Egypt concerning monastic life by Cassianus, c400 A.D.); (b) a speech or sermon. …

A commonwealth; a community, town; also, the people of such a body politic; the commune of the land. …

Eccl. (a) The last of the seven daily services or 'hours' (following even-song vespers) observed by monastics and priests of the Roman Church; complin; houre of complin; don complin, saien complin,……

(a) Admission (of an offense or of guilt); (b) revealing or disclosing (of experiences, etc.); also, an account of experiences; in confessioun, by way of confession, ?confidentially; (c) testimony. …

(a) Ratification or confirmation (of a grant or agreement); (b) approval or confirmation of the election or appointment (of a bishop or other officer), or of the establishment (of a religious order)……

Eccl. (a) The court of a diocese for adjudication under canon law, bishop's court; also, a session of such a court; consistorie session; (b) the senate of cardinals, the consistory. …

Eccl. A solemn agreement to enter into matrimony, marriage vow or contract; contract of matrimonie (weddinge); also, a breach of this vow [quot.: 1395]. …

Eccl. 'Sorrow of heart and detestation of sin committed, with the purpose of not sinning in future' [F. L. Cross, Oxf.Dict.Christ.Church (1958)]; remorse, contrition; treue contricioun, verei……

(a) A dead body, corpse; ded cors; dedman cors; (b) cors present, a customary gift to the clergy from the estate of a deceased parishioner, a mortuary. …

(a) A drinking vessel; a bowl, goblet, cup, etc.; also, a receptacle for fruit or confections; (b) stonding cuppe, a cup with a foot or base; trussing cuppe, ?a cup or chalice for traveling; (c) a……

Eccl. (a) A papal commission, representatives of the pope; (b) the delegating of papal authority; lettres of delegaci, letters appointing a papal commission and prescribing its duties, authority, etc……

(a) An indication that something is true, a proof; a sign, token, portent; (b) an account, a description; (c) an explanation, interpretation. …

Law (a) Disposition or settlement of a suit or dispute; decision, verdict; (b) power to adjudicate, jurisdiction. …

Eccl. A bishop's diocese. …

Eccl. Penitential chastisement, self-inflicted mortification of the flesh; also, an act of penance or mortification; nimen, taken discipline, to suffer such chastisement, etc. …

(a) A household official who administers the possessions of a lord, a steward or treasurer; also, one who has power to distribute legacies; (b) eccl. administrator or steward of the Church. …

(a) Power to dispose of wealth; (b) eccl. stewardship; (c) physiol. function. …

(a) The act of rising; (b) astron. the altitude or angular height above the horizon. …

Eccl. The maniple, one of the Eucharistic vestments. …

(a) A tax, charge, duty, tribute; (b) the levying of a tax, charge, duty, or tribute. …

(a) Eccl. The formal installation of a clergyman in a benefice; also, putting someone in possession of an inheritance; (b) logic inductive reasoning; a conclusion, a judgment, or an interpretation……

(a) The action of establishing a religion, system of government, etc.; the founding of a religious order, a kingdom, etc.; the founding or reestablishment of an episcopal see; the promulgation of……

(a) Something designed to be read or listened to; a written composition; (b) a subject in written composition; (c) something read aloud; a spell, a sermon. …

Eccl. The elevation of the consecrated Host and chalice in the Mass; ?also, the lesser elevation at the end of the Canon of the Mass; the levacioun time, the time of the elevation, the elevation; the……

Eccl. A maniple, one of the Eucharistic vestments of a priest. …

Eccl. (a) One who suffers torture and execution for the Christian faith, a martyr; -- also used of Abel as a type of Christ; bok of martires, a martyrology; (b) a Christian witness; (c) in title. …

(a) The rendering of personal service or aid; an act or function of serving; (b) agency, mediation; (c) conduct. …

(a) Eccl. One undergoing a probationary period in a religious order before taking the required vows, a novice; novice bed (celle), a bed (cell) occupied by a novice; (b) a beginner, one who is……

Eccl. A homily or sermon; esp. a discourse on a scriptural passage; ?also, a story, a relation [quot.: St.Anne]; bok of omelies, a homiliary. …

(a) Sg. & pl. Ornamental apparel, trapping(s, jewel(s, trinket(s, etc.; also fig.; (b) an ornament of the heavens, the earth, the elements, the body, a virtue, etc.; an embellishment, a distinction……

(a) Forgiveness; pardon of sins or wrongdoing; also, permission [quot.: Wycl.MCh.]; don pardoun, to grant pardon; (b) eccl. remission of part or all of the temporal penalty in purgatory for sins……

Eccl. (a) The plate which holds the sacramental bread during the celebration of the Mass; (b) the cover of the chalice which holds the sacramental wine; chalice paten, a chalice cover. …

(a) A payment, stipend, or salary, paid regularly, often annually, for services rendered, by terms of a will, etc.; also fig.; (b) a payment made, not regularly repeated; a reward; (c) eccl. a regular……

(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) A number greater than one, plurality; the state or fact of being plural; numerousness; also, expression in the plural number; (b) frequency of forgiveness; (c) eccl. the simultaneous tenure by one……

(a) The formal act or ceremony of dedicating an infant or a young child to God or to a pagan deity; also, the Christian Feast of the Presentation; (b) the formal induction of an elected officer into……

(a) The act of presenting advice or instruction; (b) a document presented upon delivery of goods, an invoice; (c) eccl. the act of recommending or appointing a candidate to a benefice; nomination……

(a) A ruler or head of either sovereign or subordinate status; often, one invested with judicial powers; (b) eccl. the head of a national or regional branch of the Church; (c) the head of a religious……

(a) Food for domesticated animals, fodder, hay, grain, etc.; hors provende, provender for horses; provende poke, a bag for fodder, ?a nose bag; (b) eccl. the stipend of a member of the chapter of a……

(a) Any political or administrative division of a country; (b) a nation; also, a Greek city-state or the region containing it; also, one of the ancient kingdoms of Ireland; province of promissioun……

(a) Foresight, prudence, care; also fig. the power of faith; provisioun of aungeles, the protecting care of angels; (b) God's providence; (c) an arrangement, a provision; the act of providing or……

(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……

(a) A bag, sack, or pouch, usually of cloth or leather; also, a container for receiving offerings made to an idol [quot.: Jos.Arim.]; also fig.; red purs, a bag of wisdom, one's store of good ideas……

(a) The condition of dwelling somewhere; dwelling place; also, eccl. of a clergyman: the fact of being in residence where his duties are performed; holden (kepen) residence, to dwell, reside, live……

(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) Eccl. Solemn supplication; the Major Rogation: April 25; pl. the Rogation Days, esp. the Minor Rogations: the Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday before Ascension Day, prescribed days of prayer and……

Eccl. & theol.: (a) A sacrament of the Church, a visible sign imparting grace; sacrament of holi chirche, holi chirche sacramentes; lak of sacramentes, failure to receive the sacraments; sacramentes……

(a) A repository for sacred objects; a temple, shrine; also fig.; (b) fig. the Virgin Mary; (c) eccl. the repository in a church in which sacred vessels, relics, vestments, etc. are kept, a sacristy. …

(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……

One who saves or rescues from peril, a deliverer; also, that which delivers someone from difficulties. …

(a) That which is hidden from general knowledge; a fact, matter, etc. which is to be kept confidential, or which is to be revealed to only a few, a private matter; (b) that which is hidden from human……

(a) That which is hidden from general knowledge; a fact, matter, etc. which is to be kept confidential, or which is to be revealed to only a few, a private matter; a secret act; kepen secretes, to……

(a) A member of the laity as opposed to a cleric, a layman, laywoman; also, pl. the pagan laity as opposed to priests [quot.: 1449]; (b) eccl. a member of the clergy living in the world as opposed to……

(a) A tomb; a place of burial, grave; also fig.; right of sepulcre, the right to a place of burial; (b) the tomb, or rock cave, in which Jesus was buried; also, the church in Jerusalem built to cover……

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……

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) 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) 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……

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

Eccl. A book containing tropes or sequences, a troper or sequencer. …

(a) Eccl. A vestment similar to, or sometimes identical with, the dalmatic or the alb specifically assigned to the subdeacon assisting at the Mass; vestement of tunicle; (b) a regal or ceremonial……

(a) The act of using or employing something; the fact of being used or employed; use, employment; also, the right to the use (of sth.) [last quot.]; the capacity for use (of reason) [quot. ?a1475]……

Eccl. (a) The eighth day following a feast day, counting the day itself, an octave; utas dai; seinte jon utas (b) the period of eight days beginning with the feast day; an eight-day period after the……

Eccl. An act of penitence or supplication involving some form of kneeling or prostration; don (taken) veine. …

Eccl. ?A velvetlike or velour cloth, used to cover the chalice and paten during the Mass when not in use. …

(a) The planet Venus, regarded as the evening star; (b) eccl. pl. the sixth of the seven canonical hours, or the formal services of the divine office offered at that hour. …

(a) One who stands in place of another, a representative, deputy, lieutenant; also, fig. a thing which acts on behalf of something else [2nd quot.]; a thing which resembles something else [3rd quot.]……

(a) One who stands in place of another, a representative, deputy, lieutenant; also, a thing which serves as a substitute [1st quot.]; also, fig. a thing which acts on behalf of something else [3rd……

(a) A young unmarried woman without (or presumptively without) sexual experience, a maiden; also fig. and in fig. context (b) a person of either sex without sexual experience; a woman who has never……

(a) The act of visiting; the act of visiting prisoners or the sick (one of the seven works of corporal mercy); a visit; also, the act of visiting a saint’s relics [quot. ?a1475]; visitacioun of oure……

(a) One who visits a person or place; ?also, a guardian [1st quot.]; (b) eccl. an inspector, one charged with examining and reforming an ecclesiastical establishment; also fig. and in fig. contexts. …

(a) An alcoholic drink, usu. made from crushed whole grapes or from grape juice; also fig. and in fig. context; couchen win, to place a stock of wine in storage; fillen the win, give (sb.) the wine……