Eccl. A suffragan bishop. …

(a) The third hour of the day, 9 a.m.; mid-morning; undern dai (daies, sele), undern of the dai; undern tide (time), q.v.; ringen undern (belle, to announce the hour of undern (b) half undern, the……

Eccl. The assistant to the sexton of a religious community. …

Eccl. One who accompanies or assists the precentor in a religious house, a precentor’s deputy, succentor. …

(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]……

(a) To have the use (of sth.), make use (of the imagination, reason, etc.); usen of godes bord, make use of God’s table, administer the sacrament (b) to use (sb. or sth., a part of the body, God’s……

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. A candle carried in the front of a procession or set before a group of candles. …

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. …

Eccl. An act of supplication or penitence, usu. involving some form of kneeling or prostration; maken (nimen, taken) venie. …

(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) To go to see (sb.), pay a call on; also, seek out (sb., sheep) (b) to visit (a sick person, prisoner, etc.) for the purpose of bestowing comfort or assistance, minister to; also fig. [quot.……

(a) The act of visiting a person for social or charitable purposes; visiting of the apostles, a pilgrimage to the shrine of the apostles (b) the act of making a visit for the purpose of conducting an……

(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) To do household washing or cleaning [quot. c1400(?a1387)]; wash (sth.) in or with water or other liquid, clean by scrubbing, rinsing, soaking, etc. in liquid; wash (a dish, vessel); also, wash……