Something that happens or occurs; a fortuitous happening. …

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

(a) A member of a foreign nation or country, a foreigner; (b) a foreign resident or merchant, an alien; an alien born; (c) theol. a stranger or transient. …

Theol. One of the four methods or levels in the interpretation of Holy Writ [i.e. the literal (temporal), spiritual (allegorical), moralizing (tropological), and mystical (anagogical)]: spiritual……

(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……

(a) Of a period of time: the beginning; (b) the onset (of a disease); (c) activity, behavior. …

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……

A reply to an inquiry or request; maken answere, yeven answere (ayain), to reply, give an explanation; quethen to answere, say in reply; final answere, definite answer or decision. …

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……

Evil-doing; a misdeed. …

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) A happy condition of existence; well-being, prosperity, good fortune; ?happiness caused by well-being or prosperity; blis and bale, good fortune and misfortune, happiness and misery; sone of blis……

(a) Blood; drauen blod, to draw blood; leten blod, sheden blod, spillen blod, shed blood; cause bloodshed, take life; as red as blod; (b) leten blod, to bleed (a person), phlebotomize; fig. to wound……

(a) Any collection of sheets or leaves, bound or unbound, making up a volume of writings; a book as a material object; (b) bok bindere, one who binds books; bok haspe, a clasp for the covers of a……

(a) Law The giving of surety, suretyship; (b) theol. the act of redeeming, redemption. …

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) Wedding feast; (b) brid-ale cloth, festive wedding dress; brid-ale hous, bridal chamber. …

(a) A young woman about to be married or just married, bride; also, a woman recently married, young wife; wife; (b) brid bed, nuptial couch, marriage bed; (c) brid clothes, festive wedding dress. …

(a) A young man about to be married or recently married; bridegroom, husband; (b) theol. of Christ: spouse in mystical union with Christendom or with a saint. …

(a) The mineral sulphur; (b) quik brim-ston, native or virgin sulphur; ded brim-ston, sulphur which has been rendered inert; poudre of brim-ston, flowers of sulphur; brim-ston water, water containing……

(a) The refuse of grain, i.e. the straw, the ears, and the husks; chopped straw used as fodder, bedding or stuffing, or in making bricks; (b) barli chaf, bene chaf, ote chaf, whete chaf, barley straw……

(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……

Theol. An angel of the second order (ranking below a seraph) in the hierarchy of nine orders; angel cherubin; also used allusively of the Evangelists for their wisdom. [Cherubs stand beside God's……

(a) A young child, a baby; child infaunte, litel (smal, yong) child, ; beren child, to give birth; (b) an unborn child, a fetus; unborne child; (c) ben (mid) with child, gon with child, to be……

Theol. One of the elect. …

A religious rite of Jews and Mohammedans: removal of the foreskin, circumcision [corresp. in significance to baptism among Christians]; holden, kepen circumcisioun, observe the rite of circumcision……

(a) Theol. Damnation; (b) sentencing or conviction, as for an offense; a sentence; (c) a penalty or punishment imposed by sentence. …

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

(a) Fitness, appropriateness; (b) convenience; (c) theol. adequacy of deserving behavior (as distinct from condignity, q.v. in OD). …

(a) Ritual dedication to God; consecration (of a place of worship, of oil for sacramental use, etc.); (b) ordination (of a bishop) to sacred office. …

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. …

(a) A precious circlet, often of gold and gems, worn about the head for ornament or to show rank; a coronal, coronet, diadem; (b) such a circlet worn about a helmet; (c) theol. an aureole or halo. …

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) Any tool, implement, or utensil consisting of, or having as an important part, a curved piece of metal or hook, such as a grappling iron, a pot hook, a reaping hook or sickle, ?a hoe, ?a fork, a……

A period of 24 hours, a natural day; dai natural; a daies space, a whole day; daies bred, daily bread; prime of the dai; etc. …

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

(a) A dead man, a corpse; pl. dead men, corpses, the dead; dedes office, funeral service; (b) a ghost; (c) one who has died; the ded, the deceased; dedes wille, will or desire expressed by someone who……

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

Loss of life; dying, death as an event; deth of the bodi, deth of lif; dout (dred) of deth, fear of dying; paien the dette of deth, to die as man must die; dethes cares, throes of death. …

(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 chief officer of a law court, a judge or magistrate; a ruler of the Hebrews before the kingdom; also, one who has the power to render judgment; (b) an arbiter; (c) domes-man sete, a judge's……

The action of choosing; choice, free choice; selection. …

(a) Phil. Substance, or true being, as distinguished from accidental qualities; (b) theol. divine essence or being; that in respect of which the three persons of the Trinity are one. …

(a) The flesh of the human body; esp., the muscular, gristly, and glandular portions (as opposed to blood vessels, bones, fat, hair, ligaments, nerves, skin, etc.); (b) corresponding portions of an……

(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. …

(a) The breaking (of an object); fracture (of a bone); (b) theol. the breaking or dividing of the Host; (c) math. an aliquot part of a unit, a fraction or subdivision; also, a mark indicating such a……

Theol. (a) The beginning of the World, the Creation; the period before the Fall of Man; early times; (b) the period before the Creation, Eternity; the creative principle, the first cause. …

(a) The state of being filled, fulness; (b) abundance, plenty; (c) height or perfection (of wisdom). …

(a) Trust, confidence; haven hope to (in), to trust in (sb. or sth.); (b) wishful desire, hope; without hope, without wishful thinking, without exaggeration; (c) expectation; state of expectancy; (d)……

Phil. & theol. The archetype of a thing as existing in the mind of God, the Platonic 'idea' [cp. forme n. 14a. & exaumple 5.]. …

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……

Theol. Insufflation, a blowing in of the Holy Ghost. …

(a) A key; lok and keie; also fig.; kinges keies, crowbars and hammers used to force locks or doors; (b) a representation of a key in a heraldic device; keie of rome, a key as a sign of Roman……

(a) The aggregate of inherent qualities or properties of persons, animals, plants, elements, medicines, etc.; essential character; the nature of emotions, attributes, and the like; after the fleshes……

(a) A ladder; also, Jacob's ladder; ?also, a stone stairway; (b) a removable framework attached to the body of a cart; cart ladder [see cart 8. (b)];(c) ?a splint used on broken bones; (d) ladder(es……

(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) Love (either the emotion itself or the manifestation of it in action or conduct); friendship, friendly behavior; (b) actual love, a specific feeling or expression of love; brenninge love, hot love……

(a) A person, a man or woman; (b) erest men, the first men, Adam and Eve; cristen man, ded man, fals man, god man, haveles man, hethen man, ivel man, povre man, riche man, rightwis man, unilered man,……

(a) Human condition, nature, or form; in manhed, in human form; (b) theol. the human condition, nature, or body of Christ after His incarnation; nimen (taken) manhed, to become incarnate. …

(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) A gift; noble or royal endowment; a suitor's blandishments; maken mede, to institute the giving of gifts; (b) a material reward; compensation (for work or services); wages, earnings, salary; (c) a……

Theol. Intercession. …

(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 mediator, negotiator; agent, emissary, messenger; go-between; also, agency, means [quots.: NHom., *MS Wel.]; (b) theol. of a saint, of the Virgin Mary: intercessor; of Christ: the Mediator. …

(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) Recompense, reparations; damages; to mend, as recompense; maken mendes, to make restitution; also, pay a fine; maken mi mendes, recompense me; geten mendes; (b) remedy, cure. …

(a) Improvement, alleviation, redress, remedy; (b) benefit. …

(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) Unity, oneness, singularity; also, the number one, unity; in on-hed, as one, as a single person or entity [quot.: Cleanness]; single of on-hed, simple in nature; (b) theol. unity of being or……

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) 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. …

Theol. Foreordination, predestination. …

Theol. Foreshadowing, prefiguration. …

Theol. Foreshadowing, prefiguration. …

(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……

Theol. Redeemer, savior, esp. as an epithet for Christ. …

(a) Advice, counsel; also, teaching; also, a suggestion, piece of advice; red bore [OE rǣd-bora], red man [cp. redes-man n.], a counselor; red wise, wise in counsel; (b) after (mid, of, thurgh) red……

(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. …

(a) Justice; fairness, impartiality; court of right-wisnes, court of justice; (b) an instance of justice; just punishment; also, just punishment personified; don right-wisnes, to see justice done……

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……