(a) Theol. Power to intercede, intercession; (b) law a charge or accusation. …

(a) Correction or rectification (of a bad situation, a fault, an error, etc.); bringen in amendment, set to rights; stonden upon amendment, be subject to correction; on amendment, ?on pain of a fine……

(a) Reparation, retribution, amends (as for an offense or crime, or for harm done); don, maken, paien amende, make amends, compensate; -- often with of phrase; (b) reparation demanded by, or owing to……

Theol. (a) The announcement of the incarnation of Christ, made by the angel Gabriel to the Virgin; (b) the church festival commemorating that event (March 25); (the feste of) the anunciacioun of our……

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 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……

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……

(a) Uttered insult or irreverence to God, blasphemy (against God or anything holy; also, against heathen gods); (b) theol. any action, belief, or utterance offering insult to God [see quots.]. …

A branch or twig of a tree, vine, or other plant; a frond of a palm; also fig.; braunch of pes, the olive branch brought by the dove to Noah; braunch gaderer, one who prunes or gathers branches. …

(a) A comfortable seat, such as a chair, armchair, couch, or lounge; long chaier; (b) a sedan chair or litter; (c) chaier of esement, a stool for relieving oneself; (d) chaier boue, ?the frame of a……

(a) Destruction, ruin; death; bringen to confusioun; (b) a source or cause of ruin; (c) theol. perdition, damnation. …

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. …

An agreement between parties binding them to certain provisions; a compact (as of betrothal or marriage), a pact (as of peace); maken (a) covenaunt; binden to covenaunt; holden covenaunt, kepen……

(a) Judicial condemnation; sentencing, conviction; also, death sentence; hous of dampnacioun, ?a law court or tribunal; (b) doom, ruin, injury. …

Loss or lack of hope or confidence; despair, desperation, despondency. …

(a) Whatever one owes another in goods, money, tribute, rent, dues, or the like; a debt; paien (quiten, yelden) dette, to pay a debt; borwen dette, incur a debt; axen dette, demand payment of a debt……

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

(a) The physical shape of something, contour, outline; the figure or shape (of a person), body; also fig.; (b) forme and shape, shape or forme, forme and shafte, etc. …

Theol. The attribute or endowment of being exempt from death, sickness, pain, etc. …

(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……

(a) An alphabetic character, a letter; initial, capital letter; also, in sg. and pl.: writing, script; style of handwriting, hand; ?also, in pl.: words; blak lettre, letters written in black, black……

(a) The action of marrying; marriage; maken mariage, to enter into marriage, be married; prepare or arrange for marriage; (b) the state or condition of being married; matrimony; wedlock; (c) alliaunce……

(a) The boundary or limit of a field, mountain, forest, etc.; a border between countries or regions; the shore or bank of a sea or river; mark wei [OE mearc-weg], a road that serves as a boundary……

(a) Physical substance, matter; material; mater subget, the matter or substance of which a thing consists; bodilich (ertheli) mater, corporeality; ?also, element [quots.: a1393 & c1400]; (b) prime……

(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,……

(a) A sex organ; sg. penis; also, foreskin [quot.: c1425]; also, vagina, vulva; pl. male or female genitalia; also, testicles; (b) manli (privi, secret, shamefast, shameful, sinful) membres; membre of……

(a) Pardon for a sin or an injury, forgiveness, mercy; (b) asken (bidden, bisechen, craven, crien, sechen) merci, crien for merci, to beg for pardon, forgiveness, or clemency; with ind. obj.: bidden……

(a) A condition of a person's character or conduct that deserves either reward or punishment; merites, deserts; ben of god merites (wikked merit), to be worthy (unworthy); (b) due reward or……

Theol. Hidden symbolism, doctrine, or spiritual significance in matters of religion; mystical truth; misteri of the feith, misteri of god; misteri of holi chirche, etc. …

Moral or virtuous conduct and thought; pl. moral dispositions and qualities. …

(a) Destruction of property, a person, nation, etc., ruin; defeat in battle; dai of perdicioun, time of final destruction; (b) great harm; death; (c) the loss of part of the body; perdicioun of……

Theol. (a) The foreordaining of souls to salvation, election; also personified; (b) foreordination to either good or evil destiny; ?also, divine foreknowledge. …

(a) Arrogance, overconfidence, presumption; impertinence, forwardness; -- also personified; presumpcioun of, overconfidence in (oneself) [quot.: Treat.Hope]; arrogance about (sth.) [quot.: PPl.C]; (b)……

(a) A religious procession; also, the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem; also fig.; (b) a funeral procession; (c) a secular procession, parade; joie and processioun, celebration, festivity; (d)……

Theol.?A member of the heretical Paulician sect. …

(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……

(a) The release of a prisoner of war by payment; also, fig. with payment in blood; bien raunsoun [see bien v. 1a.(a)]; maken raunsoun, to effect (one's) ransom; also fig.; proferen to raunsoun, offer……

(a) Theol. Salvation, redemption; maken redempcioun, to effect redemption (of sb.); (b) moral reformation; (c) liberation from captivity or hell; also fig.; (d) deliverance from captivity or restraint……

(a) Release from duty or obligation; freeing of captives; Bibl. dai of remissioun, a holiday from work; yer of remissioun, a Jubilee year; also, a Sabbatical year; don (maken) remissioun, to grant……

(a) Theol. Spiritual rebirth, regeneration; (b) rebuilding, reconstruction. …

(a) A meal; a feast; also fig.; (b) food; nourishment; also fig.; (c) theol. Christ om the Eucharist. …

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) 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) Protection or preservation from some present or threatened danger, trouble, calamity, etc.; deliverance from destruction; defense; (b) a state of safety, security; personal safety; savacioun of……

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

Theol. (a) An angel of the first order (ranking above cherub) in the hierarchy of nine orders; the name of this first order; also, the name of the second highest order of angels [quot.: c1390]; (b) a……

(a) A symbol; in significacioun, as a symbol, symbolizing; (b) symbolic meaning; also, interpretation [quots.: Lydg.Pilgr.]; (c) symbolization, representation; a gret significacioun, an important……

Theol. Prefiguring, foreshadowing; in signifure, as a foreshadowing. …

(a) A type or kind of person, flavor, etc.; (b) the human species; mannes spice, mankind; (c) a species of plant; a genus of animals, fish, trees, etc.; (d) med. & pathol. a type or variety of……

(a) Marriage, wedlock; also, the sacrament of matrimony; -- also pl.; spousaille lovinge, love pertaining to marriage, marital love; knotte (lok) of spousaille, the marriage bond; oute of spousaille……

(a) A wife, married woman; a bride; also fig.; -- sometimes used as a term of address; spous female (womman), she (womman) spous; haven (taken, etc.) to spous, to have (sb.) as wife; also fig. [quot……

(a) One who is obedient to another or to the wishes of another; a servant; a lover; also fig.; also, something which may be put to the service of man; (b) one who is absolutely under the control of or……

(a) A type or kind of thing; a thing; also, a material thing; up substaunce, above material things, spiritual, transcendent; (b) an entity possessing physical properties; -- used of the incarnate……

(a) Arrogance, presumption, pride; (b) theol. as a branch of the deadly sin of pride: arrogance, presumption; (c) overconfidence. …

(a) Arrogance, pride; presumptuousness; also person.; also, conceit; (b) theol. as a branch of the deadly sin of pride: presumption, arrogance, self-importance; (c) intellectual presumption; (d)……

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

(a) Insusceptibility to differentiation, indivisibility, lack of diversity; also, purity, freedom from adulteration (b) theol. the essential unity among the persons of the Trinity; the oneness or……

Physical strength, power; force, energy; also, vigor; also, stamina; vertu of bering (child-beringe), the strength to give birth. …

(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……