So it is in very truth, so be it, amen: (a) as a liturgical response of solemn ratification after the creed, prayers, etc.; (b) after an informal prayer or wish; (c) at the conclusion of a sermon……
(a) The spirit of evil, the Devil; beliales bidel, an officer or servant of the Devil; Belial children, the followers of Antichrist; sone of Belial, a son of the Devil, a lawless or wicked man……
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 barbaric people, ?the Scythians; also, the king of this people; also, the followers of Antichrist; (b) a king imprisoned by Alexander the Great.
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(a) A legendary giant in Britain; (b) a king imprisoned by Alexander the Great [see Gog n. (2)]; (c) a misshapen giant; ?a picture or an image of the British giant.
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A Biblical measure of weight or volume; also, a container holding this weight or volume. [The wide range of values shown in the quots. is partly due to the confusion of two different Heb. measures in……
(a) A traitor or betrayer; (b) Judas children, those who have inherited the evil character of Judas Iscariot; Judas felaues, those who are like Judas in race, Jews.
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(a) The miraculous food sent from heaven to the Israelites in the Sinai wilderness; (b) a miraculous substance found in the tombs of the Virgin Mary and St. John the Evangelist after their ascension……
(a) Michael, the Archangel; (b) Mighel dai (feste), seint migheles dai, feste of seint Mighel, Michaelmas day, September 29; Mighel mete, a rent paid at Michaelmas, ?a food rent to provide a feast……
(a) Moses; (b) Moises laue, laue of Moises, the Mosaic law, the Pentateuch [see also laue n.5. (a)]; Moises yerde, ?a limb of some kind of tree; ? = next; yerde of Moises, ?the rod of Moses preserved……
(a) An exclamation meaning 'Save, we pray' used to express praise to Christ or the Trinity, hosanna; (b) the sung hosanna in the liturgy for Palm Sunday.
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(a) Passover, the Passover feast; don (holden, kepen, maken) pask, to celebrate Passover; (b) dai of pask, feste (of) pask, pask messe(dai, pask of ebreues (jeues), pask of the lord, solempnite……
(a) Coll. The heavenly hosts; -- used only in phrases: oure lord (lordes) sabaoth, lord god sabaoth, lord (god) of sabaoth; (b) = sabat n.; sabaoth dai.
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(a) The seventh day of the week, observed by the Jews as a day of religious rest, in accordance with the commandment of God transmitted to them by Moses; the Sabbath, Saturday; (b) dai of (the) sabat……
(a) Solomon, king of Israel in the 10th century B.C., known for his great wisdom; the reputed author of various books of the Old Testament; also, Solomon's writings [quot.: c1390]; (b) a person with……
(a) The supreme embodiment of evil, the devil, Satan; -- also in oaths; also, the character Satan in a mystery play; prince Satan, self (himself) Satan; (b) fig. of a person: an opponent, a tempter.
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(a) The supreme embodiment of evil, the devil, Satan; -- also in oath; also fig.; set of Satanas, assigned to Satan; sinagoge of Satanas, false Jews; tempten Satanas, to put oneself in mortal danger……
The shittah tree (?Acacia seyal); also as place name, prob. by confusion with Bibl. Shechem [quot.: a1398]; thorn of sechim, fig. a righteous man in heaven; tres of sechim, shittah trees; also, acacia……
(a) Tau, the name of the letter T in the Hebrew and Greek alphabets; (b) a sign in the shape of the letter T, sometimes taken as standing for the cross; the sign of the cross, marked on the forehead……
Usu. coll. Images or representations of household gods, usu. associated with a cult of ancestor worship in Biblical Israel; also, an image or a representation of one such god [vr. to 1st quot.].
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(a) The image of Moloch in the valley of Hinnom on which human sacrifices were burned; (b) in Bibl. transl.: a site or shrine in the valley of Hinnom; (c) a place of burning, Gehenna, hell.
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