1monasticarchit.eccl.cell, room used by a monk, nun, etc. in a monastic community or by a recluse, hermit, etc.:
(
1155;
MS: s.xiiex
)
Li bon abé ne li bon moine N’unt pas seurté de lur vies; Celles laissent e abeies, Cors sainz e reliques en portent
13498
(
s.xiiim;
MS: s.xiiim
)
l’us de la celle de plum enseela
66
(
s.xiiiex;
MS: 1307-15
)
la celle e le enclosteure de recluse ke deust […] estre li plus secré […] e li plus solitarie liu ke soit
194.14
2monasticeccl.monastery, nunnery, etc. (as a daughter house or dependent of a larger house):
(
c.1136-37;
MS: s.xiiex
)
[…] vers Cirecestre – La est la sele, la deit estre
4038
(
1212;
MS: 1212-13
)
Honorez […] Qui fut fait abbes ore tart De la celle
3689
(
1292
)
ses moignes de la celle de W.
i 77
(
1305
)
a refere le Eglise de lur cel de R.
i 473
(
c.1334;
MS: s.xivm
)
founda la meson de Cluni et la fist selle de la mere meson
260.17
(
1346-57
)
[...] de quelle selle les ditz priour et covent sont oustez
186
3archit.domesticstoreroom, storage place:
(
s.xiii1/4;
MS: s.xiiiex
)
'En la celle de ses vins
(Latin: in cellam vinariam) le Rei me ad mené [...]'. Iceste celle u Deus ad ses vins herbergé Est Jerusalem lasus
891
(
s.xiiiex;
MS: 1307-15
)
li bon roi [...] mustra les celles de ses aromaz, son grant tresor e ses preciouses choses
237.6
4anat.compartment, section of the brain:
(
s.xiii2/4;
MS: s.xiii3/4
)
une apostume en la deraine celle du chief
i 172
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celle1 (c.1136-37)