• advocacion

ML & OF The patronage of a church, including the duty of protecting the church and the privilege of presenting nominees to the benefice, advowson; right of . c1460 Oseney Reg. 112/9 The church of Barton with þe pertinencis, whoos

• stolen

stolen v. From stole n. To adorn or furnish (a church or part of a church) with altar stoles. c1475 Reg.Crabhouse [OD col.] 60 The Prioresse..pathed the chirche and the quere, and stolid it..the veyl of the chirche with the

• daungering

daungering ger. The act of doing damage or harm. (1447) Doc.N.Convocation in Sur.Soc.113 180 Some that rejoyse hem in vexation..or dawnegeryng and undoyng..of persones of the Church.

• ecclesiasticere

ecclesiasticere adj. From ML ecclesiastic-us n. Ecclesiastic, of the Church. (1447-8) Shillingford 87 To the Bysshop and so to every of the personys ecclesiasticeris forsaid.

• ministratour

ministratour n. Shortened form of administratour . Administrator. (1450) Proc.Privy C. 6.102 Lowys late administratour of the bysshoprich of Ely..the said late ministratour of the church of Ely.

• festial

festial adj. festial dai , church holiday. a1422 Gild St.Geo.Nrw. Rwl D.913 448 It is ordeyned þat euery brother and suster schal on þe festial day after mete ben at euesong.

• dedicaten

dedicaten v. From ppl. To dedicate (a church). ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) Hrl 2261 7.351 They scholde mete at his churche in the idus of Maii and dedicate [L dedicarent] hit.

• enterdiccioun

enterdiccioun n. Cp. enterdit & L interdictum . Prohibition of public ministrations of the Church, interdict. 1543(1464) Hardyng Chron.B Grafton 272 Besekyng hym of mercy and of grace..For to release thenterdiccion.

• pad-lok, -lokke

pad-lok n. Also -lokke . From lok n.(2); the origin of the first element is obscure. A padlock [see also Rogers Hist.Agric. 2.575, 3.554]. (1478-9) Acc.St.Edm.Sarum 366 A Padlokke to the Church.

• pap-pai

pap-pai n. From pap , var. of pope & paie n. ?A contribution to the papal treasury. (1283) Will Court Hust. Gldh 1.64 [To the church of S. Augustine] pappai [rents of houses].

• quitale

Shortened form of aquitaille n. Discharge or payment of a debt. (1474-5) Acc.St.Edm.Sarum 19 Item, y paid to pastu Hervy and William Raynold in a quytale of a chalice to them delyverd at the last account for the church dette.

• repugning

repugning ger. Contradiction. (1395) Wycl.37 Concl. Tit D.1 131 Cristen men..where they be vncertein of such founding eyther repugning, put it [church doctrine] aback, neyther take it as beleue, neyther dispise it as false.

• inofficiate

inofficiate adj. From ML officiatus , p.ppl. of officiare . Of a church: without a priest, not having divine service. -?-(1450) Pet.Hen.VI in Archaeol.1 91 xvii parrysshe churches stond inofficiate att this day.

• undowid

undowid ppl. From dowid , p.ppl of douen v.(2). Of the church: not endowed with privileges, property, etc. a1425(?c1384) Wycl.Church Bod 788 357 Þis power were in vein ȝif þe Chirche were undowid.

• caruke

caruke n. ML carruca A plowland, a carucate. c1460 Oseney Reg. 8/13 I haue grauntyd..to the sayde church..þe ȝifte..of oon caruke, or plowlonde, of grounde.

• catermew

catermew n. Some part of a church. (1417-18) Acc.Met.Col. in Archaeol.J.6 65 Item, solut' Roberto masun pro catermews et basis faciendis, pro stallis ecclesie.

• peuing(e, puing, puiinge

peu(e n.(1). (a) The providing of pews for a church; (b) pews. (1449) Will in Nicolas Testamenta 267 Y bequethe..the mony rising thereof to be bestowed upon the complesshyng..of the seyd chirch of Staunford..in..makyng of pleyn desques, and of a

• purseint, pursent

, ppl. of purceindre ; cp. CF porceindre . Surrounding, encircling, adjacent; yerd , precincts of a church, the consecrated ground surrounding a church. a1400(c1303) Mannyng HS Hrl 1701 8914 Hyt ys vyleynye to werche, A lewed man to plete

• kinnes-folk, kinse-, kinnesfolkes, kennes-

myne aunceturs..to þe church of Saynte marye..my church of Saynte George. c1460 Oseney Reg. 70/21 We, Citisens of Oxonford..for owr helth and of our and for þe Sowles of our kennesfolkes and of our aunceturs, graunte..to þe Church of Seynte

• exercisioun

OF A church ceremony [here as part of the coronation ceremony]. Cp. exercisen 5 . c1475 Gregory's Chron. Eg 1995 165 The arche-byscoppys and byschoppys stode rounde a-boute hym [the king] and radde exercysyons ovyr hym, and many antemys i-song