• surplis, surplise, -plice, -pleis, -ples, -plesse, -plous, -plus, serplis, sirples, surpliz, surplis(s)es, -plices, sirplices, surplis, -ples, sorplis, sarplis, sorplers, sulliperes

vestment worn by a priest or other ecclesiastic (a clerk, canon, etc.), usu. for liturgical use; also, any vestment for church use, including a chorister's robe; -- also coll.; ?with pun on surplus n. [quot. ?c1430]; (b) a Hebrew priestly

• surplusage, supplusage, surpluage

superplus vltra] the Recetts xvi s. viij d., the which the acountaunts have clerly delyvered hit and geven to the Church. (a) Superfluity, excess; (b) an overabundance; also, embellishments [2nd quot.]; trappings [last quot.]. a1475(?a1430) Lydg. Pilgr. Vit C.13 7446

• bigginge, bugging, biggin(g)s

all to that bygyng bryghth Ther joy and blys ys euer lastonde. (a) The act of constructing or building (a church, a city, etc.); in , under construction; (b) manner of building, architectural design. a1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex. Corp-C 444 762

• tiler, tilere, tilar(e, tiller, tilier, teler, teleer, teiller, tielere, tigler, tigelere, tighler, tigheler(e, -ar(e, tiegheler, tiueler, tiweler, -ur, tiulur, thigheler, teglere, tegeler, teghelere-, teilere, teuler, towelar, tuler(e, -ur, tughler, tuiler, -ur, tiler(e)s, tielleres

15562 125b A Teler..tegulator. (1477-9) Rec.St.Mary at Hill 82 Item, payd to a tyler & his laborer, wirkyng apon the Church. a1500 Add.37075 Gloss Add 37075 61/297b Tegularius, tector: tylar. a1500 Medulla Cnt D.2 129a/a Tegellarius: a teleer. a1525(?1435) Cov.Leet

• sautri(e, sautri~x0021d~e, -trẹ, -trei, -teri(e, saltre, psautri(e, -trẹ, -teri, saueray

monk of] Saltre. (1305) Cart.Ramsey in RS 79.2 344 Walteri de Sautre. (1317) Pat.R.Edw.II 679 John Morel [parson of the church at] Sautre. (1317) Pat.R.Edw.II 696 John le Barker [of] Sautre [and..] William le Fevre [of] Sautre..[broke his house at]

• seculer(e, secler, sekeler, secular(e, cekeler, seculer(e)s, seculiers

etc.: not overtly religious, secular; prophetes , secular writers; (c) of or belonging to the state as opposed to the church, civil; accioun (demaunde, exaccioun, sute) , a civil suit (tax, complaint); arm , honde(s , the civil authority, civil

• Siọn

Jerusalem itself; Israel; hille of , mount (of) , tour of ; doughter of [see doughter n.3. (a).]; (b) the church; also, fig. the body of contemplatives; (c) the monastery of Syon at Isleworth; also, the name of an unidentified

• traunsom, traunsum, trauncein, transome, transe(i)n, transin, trannesson, trannessene, tramson, trampsoun, traumsom, trason, traunsomes, traunsum, transum, tramson, trasons, trawasones

same hous contenyng vij someres and lx trasons. (1366) in Salzman Building in Engl. 292 [72] traunceynbarris [of iron..for the church]. (1411) Fabric R.Norwich in Nrf.Archaeol.15 186 [Item, paid for 2] transen bars [& 2] Sondletts [occupied by the glass

• unien, uni(e, unied, uned, unied, uniette, unid, i)uned

grete charges of the same Toune, have unied and annexit the Touneship. c1460 Oseney Reg. 161/22 Persons of þe parisch church of Dunstywe of þe saide lincoln diocise to vs and to our priorye vnyed and annexid and Incorporate of

• ward, warde, wart, weard, -werd, -(h)ard

keeper; bere [see ber(e-ward(e n.]; brigge , a custodian or warden of a bridge; chirche , a custodian of a church, a sexton or sacristan; dore , a gatekeeper, porter;-used in fig. context [see also dor(e n.(1) 4. (d)]; erv

• wẹrien, weri(e, wirie, veri, wergen, werieth, werith, werreith, werget, weried(e, ~x0021d~wer~x0021d~i

62 It weryth [vr. werieth] me þis mater for to trete. c1460 Oseney Reg. 47/16 Hit be not lawfull to no man to trobull þe foresaide church or his possessions to take aweye or to wery þem with oony vexacions.

• adressen, adressed, adrest

B.490 91 He graunted the kynge that he sholde into Irland wende, forto adresse and sprede the termys of holy church. (a1393) Gower CA Frf 3 5.5021 This lord of Rome it [the cord] nam, And therupon him hath adresced.

• brid-ale, bridal, bridalle, bridell, brud-ale, bruid-, bruit-, brẹd-ale

howse: Nuptorium. Theol. Festive mystical union (of man with God, of Christ as God and man, of Christ and the Church). a1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) Stw 34 95/33 He mai cumen..in to ðe bredale to-fore ðe bredgume, and mid him

• canoun, canon

(a) Ecclesiastical law, canon law; also, an authoritative statement or writing of the Church; (b) a rule or principle; also, a rule or set of rules in written form, an authoritative statement. (1395) Wycl.37 Concl. Tit D.1 114 Gregori there

• chapitle, chapitel(e, -ul, chapetil

he gyueþ vs lytel, ffor a monk can nought bot his chapitel. Eccl. (a) An assembly of dignitaries of the Church, as of a religious order, a cathedral, etc., acting as an administrative, legislative, or judicial body; plenere , a

• commune laue, comune , comoun , com(m)on , comen , com(m)in

schulde non accion procede, That ones owt of courte hath be with-drawe Convicte as fals. The general law of the church; the of the chirche . ?c1430(?1383) Wycl.Curse Corp-C 296 288 Þerfore..þei offeren defouled bred, as Seynt Gregory and Seynt

• complin(e, cumplin(e, compelin, cumpelin, complen(e, compling, compli, cump(e)lie, comple, cumple

The last of the seven daily services or `hours' (following even-song vespers) observed by monastics and priests of the Roman Church; complin; houre of ; don , saien , singen ; (b) the part of the breviary containing this service.

• confederen, confedren, -fetren, -fetheren, confid(e)ren

to this Accorde. c1432 Bishop Notes in PMLA 49 Cmb Dd.14.2 457 Lollardes fals heretikes..to geders confederid..þe feyþ of holy church to destruye. (1450) Complaint in War.AM 4 183 The said other persons have knyt and confetrid hem selfs togedres..for

• constitucioun

or edict (of the Pope); a regulation (of the Church or its dignitaries); (b) a rule (of a monastic order); (c) a decree (as of a ruler), a law; (d) an ordinance or statute (of a town or guild). c1390(?c1350)

• convenientli

on Seynt Thomas day..and conveniently deied he in Silvestir fest, ageyn whom he had venemously berkid for dotacion of the Church. ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) Hrl 2261 4.297 Augustus founde firste þis letter x..and conuenientely, whiche letter representethe the crosse of Criste.