GLOSSARY
Of obsolete words, or words used in an obsolete sense
(N) An outcast, low scoundrel (V) To humble oneself |
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To set abroach = to start something one cannot or will not stop |
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Burdened |
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Accompt |
Account |
Accustomably |
Normally |
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Acoluthes |
Acolytes |
To bind under penalty of an oath |
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Praying to the saints |
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Advoutry |
Adultery |
Advowson |
The right of appointment to a benefice |
A disposition or emotional attitude towards something |
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Affiance |
Trust |
A blow struck unexpectedly at an opponent who had thought the fight was over. |
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Withstand, defeat |
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To acknowledge |
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An alehouse sign |
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To cite in argument |
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Alms |
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Almous |
Of or relating to almsgiving or charity |
Roundabout or deceitfully ambiguous speech; legal technicalities |
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To fine or tax heavily |
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Relating to; as anences = as regards |
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The income of a diocese or benefice for the first year of a new appointee's tenure, which was given to the Pope. |
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Annoiling |
Anointing with sacred oil |
A right of preference or precedence |
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Openly |
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The pope |
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To damage or weaken |
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Appellatores |
One who makes a false accusation for a reward |
Appliable to their beck |
Ready to obey them |
Appone |
To make use of |
Appose |
To interrogate or question in court |
Raised up |
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To gather and prepare an army |
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Summoned |
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Formally tasting food before giving it to a king or other important person |
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Assize |
To impose or assess a tax; or, to set the price of a staple foodstuff etc. |
Assoil |
To pardon, absolve |
Astonished |
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Astonyings |
Astonishment, confusion |
Audience |
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Altar |
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To declare publicly |
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Avowe |
Vow |
A storehouse |
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Against |
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Bailiff, steward |
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Ballads |
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Agreement, contract |
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Ban-dog |
A big savage dog |
A Turkish general or pasha |
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Debate, strife |
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A person employed or appointed to pray for others |
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Bead-roll |
A long list of names |
Bearing sheet |
A winding-sheet or shroud in which a corpse is wrapped for burial |
Bearward |
A keeper or trainer of performing bears |
A mallet |
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Decorated with hanging tapestries etc. |
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Behewed |
Hacked with an axe |
Behight |
Gave, given |
Gluttony |
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Bel-wether |
The best sheep in a flock |
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Are |
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Benemen, Benomin |
Deprive, take away from |
Beset |
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Are, is |
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To betray |
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To proclaim or declare |
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Disconcerted |
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Believe |
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To sift |
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Good fortune, benefit |
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A sermon learned by heart and recited |
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To thump |
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To quarrel loudly |
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Brary |
One who brays or talks nonsense |
Brast |
Burst |
Burn |
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Brennen |
Burn |
To steal |
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Brim |
Brightly shining |
Bristow |
Bristol |
A noise |
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A shield |
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A ghost, monster or other terrifying thing |
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An ambush |
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An archery range |
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Obedient |
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Buxumnesse |
Obedience |
Legal quibbling or trickery |
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Build |
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Promised |
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Deprive, take away from |
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A benefice which involves serving God by warfare |
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In canicular days: dog-days, early August |
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Canivise |
Apparently a nonce-word invented by Foxe; presumably "To make into a dog" |
Canning |
Memorizing |
Canvassed |
Beaten, knocked about, defeated |
Believing in the Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation |
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Carle |
A low churl or villain |
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Casule |
A chasuble |
Legal quibbles or trickery |
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High rank, majesty; your celsitude = your highness |
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To bless with incense |
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Certainly |
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A fit of temper; fury |
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Chaffare |
Merchandise |
Channel |
Gutter |
Chap-men |
Merchants |
Chaps |
Fissures |
Chargeous |
Dependent upon |
Chart |
A charter or official decree. Blank chart = a blank royal decree to be filled in with the names etc. of those it will refer to |
Flattering words |
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Cheer |
Facial expression |
Chequer |
In chequer matters: Lawsuits relating to the collection of royal revenue |
Chesille |
A chasuble |
A loose gown with red sleeves, worn by a bishop |
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Chisil |
A chasuble |
A sacred anointing |
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Chrisoms |
Chrism, a holy oil used for anointing |
A lawyer specialising in civil law. |
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To botch together |
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To clean, absolve |
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Clepe |
Call |
A monk or nun who stays in a monastery or convent; opposed to a friar, who wanders around begging. |
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Closter |
An enclosure |
To coerce |
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Coactive |
Coercive |
Coadjutor |
An assistant |
A weed of corn fields (Lychnis githago) |
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To foist or publish a forged document |
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Of equal rank; one of the joint holders of an office |
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Collation |
1) Appointment of a clergyman to a benefice 2) A commentary on scripture |
Colleginer |
A fellow of a college |
Comforting |
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Commencement |
A conference |
Comminatory |
A sealed-off place, a cloister |
Commodity |
Advantage |
Compter |
A lock-up |
A public speech |
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Concupiscence |
Overpowering desire (not necessarily sexual) |
Confute |
To prove wrong |
Congruent |
Appropriate, suitable |
Conjunction adversative |
A phrase (beginning with e.g. but or however) qualifying or contradicting the one before |
Conning |
Wisdom |
Contemn |
To despise |
Contentation |
Content, satisfaction |
Contumacy |
Contemptuous refusal to obey |
Contumelious |
Degrading or insulting |
Contumely, Contumelies |
Insults |
Convent |
(V) |
Conventicle |
A clandestine or illegal religious meeting |
A long silken cloak worn as an ecclesiastical vestment on certain occasions |
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Copulative |
Forming a connected whole |
A carter of grain |
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Corporace |
A cloth laid on the altar on which the chalice and paten are placed |
Corporal |
1) of the body, physical 2) in Corporal oath, one taken while holding a physical object, such as a Bible, relic, or consecrated host. |
Breast |
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Covetousness |
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Courser |
A war-horse |
Courtesan |
A member of the Papal Curia |
Cousin-german |
A first cousin |
Covetousness |
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A blowhard or boaster |
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Criminal; relating to crime |
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Marked with a cross; having take the cross as a crusader |
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Croisy |
To bestow the cross upon someone, i.e. to declare him a crusader |
Croysies |
Crusaders |
Cruelty |
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Cologne |
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Customary or habitual |
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A pistol |
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Damaged or injured |
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Damp |
A state of stupefaction |
A coward |
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Originally, a letter written by a Pope in response to a query; later, any papal decree or document |
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To bring |
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To throw down |
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Judge |
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Demi-lance |
A short-shafted lance |
To despatch a messenger |
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Debtor |
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Deturbate |
To cast down or thrust out |
Died |
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To strike, beat |
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The matins of the Service for the dead, beginning Dirige, Domine, Deus meus, in conspectu tuo viam meam. |
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Dirt-dauber |
A plasterer esp. one who uses mud to make wattle-and-daub walls |
Debate |
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Disgarnish |
To deprive of |
Dishonest |
To defile |
Disme |
A 10% tax or charge |
Disparkle |
To scatter or disperse |
Dispensator |
One who dispenses or distributes goods |
Disperkle |
To scatter, disperse |
Disseize |
To dispossess |
Dissever |
To separate |
Dissimule |
To deceive by hiding one's true feelings of inentions |
Distain |
Dishonoured |
Distinction |
A division or section of a book or document |
Judgement |
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Domesmen |
Judges |
An honorary or temporary member of a religious order |
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Donative |
A benefice which can be bestowed by the founder or patron without reference to the bishop or abbot. |
Strongly |
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Spent brewing grains used as animal feed |
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Draught |
A privy (US: bathroom) |
A kind of trumpet |
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Doubt |
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A state of bewilderment |
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To plough |
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Earlich |
Early |
Soon afterwards, immediately |
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Eyes |
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A diplomatic mission |
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Emblemish |
To damage or disfigure |
Embull |
To seal |
Endowing |
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To assign a fief of property or office to someone |
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Hostile |
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Example |
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Assiduous in learning |
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To surround |
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An atheist |
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Riches obtained by plunder |
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Eschew |
Renounce, reject |
Spy |
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Pagans |
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To nullify |
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Evangely, Evangelies |
The Gospels |
The day before a feast day |
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Even-christened |
Fellow-Christians |
Everichone |
Each one |
A person under examination, either as witness or accused |
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Confiscation of property, or encroachment on the privileges of another |
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Excoriate |
To flay |
Asked |
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To remove an office or responsibility from someone |
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To examine or test |
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Expugn |
To conquer or overcome |
A papal decree not included in the standard list |
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Deed |
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Broken or destroyed |
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A shrine |
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A bundle or parcel |
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Farmary |
An infirmary |
Farmer |
A bailiff |
Weariness, long drawn-out effort |
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A patron, supporter or abettor |
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Filthiness |
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Many |
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Under the feudal system, the action of assigning lands to someone |
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A weekday |
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Fetched |
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Fetch |
(V) To steal by fraud or cunning (N) Such an act of theft |
Fetch |
A trick or swindle |
A house in which a fire is regularly lit (i.e. a dwelling-house) |
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Very wicked |
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Fled from |
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Flown |
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A defeat |
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(A) Foolish (V) To speak foolishly |
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An ancestor |
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Foreface |
Preface |
Forefact |
A criminal accusation |
Forefend |
Prevent |
Foreslack |
To neglect |
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Forfend |
Prevent |
Form |
A bench |
Forward |
A contract or sgreement |
Basis, foundation |
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The wall of the refectory in a monastery |
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Fraught |
Filled with; (of a ship) fully laden. |
Frail |
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Fretted |
a) Worn, rubbed b) Inlaid with precious metal or stones |
Baptised |
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Fullen |
To baptise |
Angry, irascible |
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Flogging |
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To pledge |
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To oppose |
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A worthless trinket |
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Something people stare at |
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Spititual |
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If |
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Guile, dishonesty |
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Gilten |
To offend against |
A mechanism |
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A weapon consisting of a short, broad blade fixed to a long handle |
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Glaverer |
A flattering deceiver |
To smear with paint |
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To explain, or more often distort, the meaning ofa text |
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Glossary |
A commentary or explanation |
Gloss-writer |
A writer of commentaries, or a spin-doctor |
The relationship of God-parent and God-child |
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To find out someone's business or secrets by cunning |
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An office of the court of chancery, which collected fees for sealing and registration of documents |
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Them |
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Their |
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Heren |
Theirs |
Hery |
To worship |
Commandment |
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Was named |
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Held |
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Holocaust |
A sacrifice where the entire animal is burnt (not just the inedible bits) |
Holpen |
Helped |
Holydeme |
Holiness |
Friendly, affable |
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Brothel |
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Whores |
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Horsed up |
Pulled up on a man's back or a frame, to be whipped |
Stockings |
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Hostelar |
The landlady of an inn |
(N) The eucharist; |
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Literally: crouching or bowing low. Figuratively: with abject humility |
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Hold |
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An instance of dishonest exaggeration |
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Hypotyposis |
A vivid description of a scene |
I |
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The thirteenth or fifteenth day of the month |
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Negligence or laziness |
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Helplessness |
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Imbrued |
Stained with blood |
Adoption as a heir |
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Unbearable |
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Imposthume |
An abscess |
Unfitness, disqualification |
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Full of anger |
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Incommodity |
Disadvantage |
Incontinency |
Lechery |
Incontinent, Incontinently |
Immediately |
A period of fifteen years |
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Indurate |
Hardened, stubborn or callous |
To slip in edgeways |
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To make infamous |
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Infect |
Imperfect |
Infeoff |
To assign a fief of property or office to someone |
Infer |
To state or bring forward as an argument |
Infestine |
Troublesome, annoying |
Giving life to |
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Instant |
Insistent |
Instantly |
Insistently |
An interdict, i.e. a punishment laid by the church on a town etc., prohibiting any church service from being held there |
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Intermit |
To interrupt |
Intestine |
Internal |
A prayer or verse of the Bible recited at the beginning of a church service |
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Involve |
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The prophet Isiah |
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A privy (U.S: bathroom) |
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A story-teller |
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A low scoundrel |
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Duress, punishment |
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Kele |
To satisfy hunger or thirst |
A small or trifling article |
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The rosary, usually the full 15 decades |
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A renegade or fugitive |
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Brass |
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Praise |
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Ceremonial washings which were part of a royal levée |
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A cesspit |
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Lend |
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Leasing |
Lying |
A reading |
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Believe |
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Leefull |
Lawful |
Leese |
To surrender or be deprived of |
Leeue |
A leeue Lord = O Lord in whom we believe |
Lawful |
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Of or relating to a Papal legate |
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Legerdemain |
Trickery |
A lover |
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Leaper |
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Pasture |
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Lesing |
(A) False (V) Lying |
Lesser Britain |
Brittany |
To hinder or prevent (also past tense and noun) |
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Faith or confidence |
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Ignorant or futile |
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A leopard |
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Libel |
A document or certificate |
In Roman times, an official who attended a magistrate and carried out his orders to arrest, flog, execute etc. malefactors |
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The holder of a feudal lordship or office |
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Livelihood |
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Lie |
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Likely |
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Limbo, in Catholic theology a state without either the torments of Hell or the bliss of Heaven, occupied by the souls of unbaptized children |
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Limiting |
Begging |
A strip of cloth |
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List |
To want to do |
Brittany |
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Livelihood |
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A low scoundrel |
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Ritual washing |
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Gained, profited |
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Telling outrageous lies |
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To mash or chop up |
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The act of bailing a prisoner |
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A trouble-maker |
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Makebate |
A lie designed to stir up trouble for someone |
Insolent |
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Mall |
A heavy hammer |
Fine white bread |
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Manducation |
Nourishment; usually spiritual, via the Eucharist |
Maniple |
1) A troop of soldiers 2) A strip of cloth worn hanging from the cuff |
Manqueller |
A murderer |
Mansuetude |
Gentleness |
Hebrew name of a false god mentioned in Dan. xi 38. |
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A tax paid by a vassal to his lord on the marriage of his (i.e. the vassal's) daughter |
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Mark |
Silver, or unspecified: Thirteen shillings and fourpence in money Gold: Eight ounces |
Marmoset |
A grotesque painting or statue |
Series of three hundred masses |
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Despite |
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Maumet, Mawmet |
An idol |
Maundement |
Commandment |
Idolatry |
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An effeminate weakling |
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Any valuable item or reward |
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Meet |
Suitable |
Household |
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Mainz |
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To fine |
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Mercement |
A fine or imposition |
Mercery-ware |
Fine cotton, velvet or silk goods; the stock-in-trade of a mercer |
Mere |
Pure, complete or unmixed |
Merilich |
Merrily |
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Mete done = should do |
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Great |
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In the capacity of an administrator. |
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A wretch |
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Misprision |
Under an Act of Parliament of 1534, misprision was the crime of refusing to swear an oath acknowledging the King as head of the church |
More |
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Instruction, warning |
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Monitory |
Containing a warning or admonishment |
1) May 2) Must |
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May |
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A young mule |
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A document proving ownership or entitlement to something |
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Munition |
A fortification |
A purplish-red colour |
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Great |
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Especially |
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Watercress (the flower now called nasturtium was not known in England in Foxe's time) |
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Wicked |
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Navarre |
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No, not, nor, neither |
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A cow-herd |
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Will not |
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To take |
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Nene |
Destruction |
Silly |
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Will not |
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The 7th of March, May, July, or October; the 5th of any other month. |
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Neither |
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To train or educate |
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Annoying, troublesome |
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1) An animal offered for sacrifice 2) Money given to the church 3) One of two parts of the Mass; either the Offertory, or the presentation of the consecrated bread and wine with the words "Behold the Lamb of God, etc" |
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Abuse, calumny |
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Happening |
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Something which leads or causes a person to commit sin |
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Offension |
Injury or damage |
Onyx |
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1) Infamy, shame 2) Insults |
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Oppugn |
To fight against |
A book of rules and regulations |
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Ordinary |
The ecclesiastical chief of an area i.e. the Parish priest in a parish, the bishop in a diocese, etc. |
A wondrous event or miracle |
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A gold or jewelled brooch or buckle |
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Crosswise, either literally or figuratively |
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A scoundrel |
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Paction |
An alliance |
A canton of Switzerland |
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Painstaking |
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A small horse |
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Pall |
A kind of scarf or stole worn by a bishop; used figuratively to mean the office of bishop. |
Palsgrave |
A Count Palatine, i.e. a ruler who has been granted full powers in his fief by the Holy Roman Emperor |
A pagan or other non-Christian |
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Pantofle |
Expensive, highly decorated slippers; Stood upon their pantofles = Stood on their dignity |
A parish priest |
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To smash |
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Patin, patine, paten |
A dish on which the communion bread is placed |
Wooden overshoes |
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To cut open the belly of |
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A pagan or Muslim |
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To address with insults or reproaches |
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1) A penitent 2) A priest specially appointed to hear confessions of reserved sins (ones which cannot be absolved by ordinary priests) |
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Perhaps |
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Peregrine |
A pilgrim |
Perfitlich |
Perfectly |
Perpend |
To consider |
Hypocritical displays of virtue |
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Poitou, in France |
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To rob, pillage |
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Pilled |
Tonsured i.e. having the top of the head shaved |
The rack or similar instrument of torture |
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Pin-fold |
A pound for stray animals |
A small box in which consecrated hosts are carried about. |
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An official document or proclamation |
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Plaice-mouth |
A pursing of the lips |
Complete |
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Plete |
To argue one's case |
A lead ball on a cord |
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A maker of laces for fastening clothes |
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Poising |
Weighing |
To extort money from |
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The robes of a bishop or cardinal |
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The corn-cockle (Lychnis githago), a weed of wheat fields |
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Appearance |
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Porthose |
To canonize as a saint |
Portues |
A breviary or book of liturgy |
Portuous |
(Of a saint) Included in the standard breviary or calendar |
A note or comment on a document |
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Potestate |
A ruler, potentate |
Of a metal object, decorated by embossing or engraving |
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The crime in English law of appealing to, or acknowledging, a power outside England (usually the Papacy) in defiance of the monarch. |
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Wickedness |
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The revenue of a specific plot of land belonging to an ecclesiastical foundation; a prebendary was the priest to which a prebend was allocated or prebendated |
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Prefe |
Proof |
Premonish |
To speak of beforehand |
Prepense |
Inclined towards |
Presul |
A prelate or bishop |
Pretensed |
Pretended, falsely claimed |
Pretermit |
To leave out, omit |
Preue, preve |
Proof |
Privately |
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Privation |
Deprivation, removal from office |
Privily |
Secretly |
Privy |
Secret |
Plausibly, convincingly |
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Probation |
Proof |
Probations |
Conclusive arguments, proofs |
Proclive |
Inclined towards |
Prodition |
Treachery |
Prolix |
Long-winded |
Proll |
To prowl or rob |
Prolocutor |
1) a spokesman 2) The chairman of a parliament or congress |
Prompt |
Prompt with = armed with, and very ready to use |
Propone |
To propose |
Prorogations |
Postponements |
Prorogue |
To postpone |
Proscript |
Proscribed |
Prosopopœia |
An orator's trick of speaking as if in the voice or person of someone else |
Protonotary |
A senior papal clerk or envoy |
Prototypon |
The first or original version of a document etc. |
Prove |
To test |
Provisor |
A person holding the right to be appointed to an office or benefice when it becomes vacant |
Provoke |
To invite |
Writer of Psalms; a title of King David of Israel and Judah |
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Power |
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Puissant |
Powerful |
Puissant |
Powerful |
To peck |
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A messenger or agent |
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To quell, suppress |
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Quarrel |
A cross-bow arrow |
Members of a commission of enquiry |
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Alive |
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Quier |
A book |
Quindecim |
A fifteenth part |
Quire |
A choir |
Former, formerly |
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Rabbin |
A Jewish Rabbi; used contemptuously to refer to other religious leaders |
At random |
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To plunder or destroy |
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Rash |
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To scold, abuse |
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Quick-witted and eloquent |
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Reave |
To rob |
A harbourer of criminals |
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Recluse |
A prison cell |
Recure |
To restore to health |
Advise |
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Disprove |
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Refuse |
To reject |
Rule |
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Register |
A keeper of records, registrar. |
To return to one's original beliefs |
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Stages in the arguing of a case before a court i.e. The prosecutor makes a charge, then The defendant makes a reply, then The prosecutor makes a replication, then The defendant makes a replication duplic |
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Repugn |
To oppose, fight against |
Strictly, the decision of the Roman emperor on a case referred to him by a governor or judge; more loosely, any formal written command by a person in authority |
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Residentiary |
The canons of a cathedral |
Reck, care themselves with |
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To don vestments for a religious ceremony |
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Revestry |
The vestry of a church |
The River Rhône |
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A linen surplice |
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A crucifix |
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Chanting the litany of the saints during a procession |
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Dig up with the snout, like a pig in filth |
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To whisper |
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A state of excitement or pride |
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Ruffler |
A fine-clothed but useless fellow |
Ruffling |
Showing off |
A fugitive scoundrel |
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Lord of Sabaoth = Lord of Hosts, a title of God |
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One who holds "heretical" (i.e.not Catholic) views on the Eucharist |
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Sacring |
The consecration of the Mass |
To assail |
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Repletion |
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The Book of Psalms |
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A fine cloth of silk and wool woven together |
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Harm |
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Shall |
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A soldier sent out to see what the enemy is doing, a scout |
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Scutage |
A tax paid instead of military service |
Eight bushels |
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Seek |
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Say |
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Lordship or dominion; or the lands over which this is held |
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Sein |
Say |
Seised |
Of land or property: assigned or granted to someone |
Seizin-taking |
Taking possession of a token of ownership e.g. the keys of a house. |
Certain |
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Similar |
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As a judicial sentence |
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Sententiary |
A person who has compiled a compendium of theological opinions. |
A tomb |
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Bondage, serfdom |
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A servant who lays the table, serves the meal etc. |
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See |
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Shed |
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Shaveling |
A tonsured monk |
Shawm |
A musical instrument resembling an oboe. |
A cloth-shearer |
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Sheave |
To collect, gather up |
Shent |
Ruined, destroyed |
Shew-bread |
Special loaves of bread which were placed on a table in the Temple of Jerusalem every Sabbath and eaten by the priests at the end of the week. See Exod. xxv. 30. |
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Shone |
Shoes |
Absolution |
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Shriuing |
Confession |
Shall |
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Shulne |
Shall |
Seat |
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Innocent |
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A sewer or drain |
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Since |
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Sith that |
Provided that |
Sithe |
Times |
Sithen |
So that |
Sithence |
Since |
To be of importance |
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Encouraging others to sin by bad example |
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Slay |
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Slean |
Slay |
Sleight |
Deceitful |
Baggy trousers |
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Slowen |
Slain |
An emerald |
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A horse bridle |
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To take snuff = to take offence |
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Boiled |
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Sultan |
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Solicitor |
An agent or deputy |
A bailiff or court messenger |
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A formally appointed deputy or representative |
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Soothfastness |
Constancy in holding to the truth |
A cobbler or shoemaker |
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The clergy or hierarchy |
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Adultery |
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Spoushod |
Marriage |
A young man |
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Oozing of matter, fæces etc. from the body |
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Spurn |
Kick or trample underfoot |
A, or the only, legally licensed market for wool for purchase by foreigners |
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To place among the stars |
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Sternship |
Haughtiness |
Went (the word is principally used to describe Christ's ascension into heaven) |
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The name of a market for meat and fish in the City of London |
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Stover |
Fodder, animal food |
A whore |
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Obstinate |
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An assistant or subordinate bishop |
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Suffrage |
1) An assistant 2) Help, assistance of any kind |
To say |
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Sugget |
A saying |
A bailiff of an ecclesiastical court, who summons people to attend |
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Sum-papal |
A summary of papal edicts on a particular topic |
Sumpter |
A pack-horse |
In works of supererogation: in Catholic theology, the performance of good works beyond what God commands or requires; this builds up a store of grace which the Church can dispense in the form of indulgences etc. |
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Supposition |
An argument for a proposition |
Supputation |
A system of calculation |
Provision of food, drink and other necessities |
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A false vision or fake miracle |
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In phrase To bear the swinge = to have power or authority |
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An arbitrary tax levied by special order |
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Tally for his own cates |
To obtain food and other necessities on credit |
Delay |
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Attend with |
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Rash, reckless |
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To clean a wound with a small roll of cloth |
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Tenths |
Tithes |
Desertion or apostacy |
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Terrene |
Of the earth in the sense (a) as opposed to heavenly or (b) peasant-like, low-class |
The Promised Land |
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A fuller (of cloth) |
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Thilke |
This |
Then |
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Thoore |
Unharmed |
A slave |
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To bless with incense |
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Unstable, ready to fall at a touch |
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Fastened his laces |
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A hood or hooded cloak |
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Tipstave |
A court usher or bailiff |
Decimated (i.e. every tenth man killed) |
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Titiviller |
The name of a demon in a morality play; hence, a scoundrel |
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To lie for the whetstone |
To tell outrageous lies |
Completely destroy |
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To-broken |
Destroyed, torn up |
In front of |
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Money paid in tolls or taxes |
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A shaven patch on the top of the head |
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To card wool |
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A papal dispensation allowing the holder to have any number of benefices |
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Exceptional aptitude. |
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A trifle or bauble |
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Written discussion or discourse |
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Train |
A deception or fraud |
Transumpt |
A transcript or formal copy of a record or decree |
Trauel |
Labour |
Travail |
1) Labour 2) Suffering |
Travell |
Suffering |
Traverse |
A dispute or controversy |
Travise |
A dispute or controversy |
Wooden shoes, clogs |
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Trental |
A series of thirty requiem masses |
Well-chosen to deceive |
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Truth |
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Harmoniously |
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Vicar, in the sense of appointed representative |
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Foolish |
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Unlawful |
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Disrespected |
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Lending or borrowing at (usually usurious) interest |
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The eighth day after the specified feast day |
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An extra payment or profit, a perk |
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Devastation, destruction |
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An outer fortification |
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The vanguard |
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Truly |
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Very |
True, truly |
To regard, or treat, a person as being vile or worthless |
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Vility |
Vileness |
An ornamental border of vine leaves in a manuscript |
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A mask or outward show |
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To spoil or wear out |
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To depart from |
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The members of a municipal band, employed by the city to play on public occasions |
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Welsh |
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An imprecation or curse |
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A lock |
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Year, day and wast = "a prerogative whereby the sovereign was entitled to the profits for a year and a day of a tenement held by a person attainted of petty treason or felony, with the right of wasting the tenement" (OED) |
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Waster |
A wooden sword used for fencing practice |
A cloak or costume |
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Ween |
Suppose, believe |
Weet |
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Weet |
To know |
Prosperity |
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1) to know 2) to ask of someone |
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A wheel-maker |
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A whirlpool |
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Whether he wanted or not |
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Will-works |
Works performed by the human will, without divine grace |
An auger or gimlet |
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Knew |
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Would |
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Inhabitant |
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Madness |
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Woodnesse |
Madness, violent anger |
Know |
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Revenge |
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Wrakers |
Those who wreak vengeance |
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Wreke |
To work, do something |
Thankfully |
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Bade |
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Born |
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I |
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To give |
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Yift |
A gift |
Equally |
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Towards you |
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Evil |
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Know |
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Thus; or as phrase zif all = although |