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autel1 (1121-35)
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autel1 (1121-35)

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altel;  autelle,  autiel; 
pl. alteus  (auteiz,  autez  Secr WATERFORD1 77.136)  
  FEW:  altare 24,351b Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  altel 8,89b TL: autel 2 1,686 DEAF:  autel  DMF:  autel 1  TLF:  autel  OED:  aultel n.  / altel n.  MED: ∅ DMLBS:  altare 2 69c

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1eccl.altar: 
( 1121-35; MS: s.xii3/3 )  Li clers vent a l’autel  Best ants 2285
( c.1136-37; MS: s.xiiex )  Devant l’autel sent Vince[n]z A Wincestre  GAIMAR1 4074
( MS: s.xii )  area: place; ara  TLL i 21
( 1163-70; MS: s.xiii2 )  Devant l’altel ki est sacré El num de sainte ternité, S’est li reis A. arestu  S Edw barking 2965
( c.1240; MS: c.1300 )  La en le honurance seint Pere Trova devant sun autel lumere  Mir N-D 34.36
( 1266-1300; MS: c.1300 )  Il fist auteiz et orataires az fauz dieus et les aora  Waterford busby 236.S32.62
( 1302 )  devant l'image et le autiel Nostre Dame que est en la voute de l'eglise de la Trinité de Canterbir'  Priv Lett Ed I 83
2eccl.altar oblations, altarage: 
( c.1200; MS: s.xivin )  De terre aveient environ Dunt pussent vivre a fuison, Estre l’aport de lur autel  S Osith 1465
halt, mestre autel
eccl.high altar, chief altar of a cathedral or church: 
( 1160-74; MS: s.xvii )  Au moustier Nostre Dame fist primes s’oroison, Devant li mestre autel fist mainte afflicion  Rom de Rou wace i 116.3074
( 1415 )  je devise a l’haute autelle de l’esglise […] pur defaut de mes dismes ubliez v marcz  Reg Chich iii 406

See also:

auter1  superaltare 
This is an AND2 Phase 1 (A-E) entry © 2000-2006 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. On-line entry partially revised after the print version of AND2 went to press (2007-03-22) The printed edition of AND2 A-E is published by Taylor & Francis for the MHRA, sole owners of the print-media publication rights. All other rights reserved. Digitisation funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
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