assembly, gathering:
(
c.1334;
MS: s.xivm
)
les congregacions des ewes il
(=God) apella mer
TREVET Cron1 1.29
(
1360-61
)
totes alliances o covignes des maceons et carpenters o congregacions, chapitres […]
Stats i 367 ix
(
1378
)
a vous les Co[mun]es est assignez la maison appellez le Chapitre dein le grante cloystre de ceste abbeye pur y faire voz congregations
Rot Parl1 iii 33
(
1390;
MS: s.xv1
)
pluseurs semblees et congregacions des communes et du people
Lett & Pet 2.iii.12
(
1427
)
expendés a nostre primer congregacioun et autres potaciouns
Grocers 162
♦
eccl.monasticmonastic community:
(
1181-85;
MS: s.xiv1/4
)
cele seintime mesun U Deu fist congregatiun
Hosp Rule 362
(
1212;
MS: 1212-13
)
Car sachez, nostre ordre ert ital, E la reille de la meison, Q’enz en la congregation Onc a nuli, por nul aveir, Proprieté ne lut aveir
Dial Greg SATF 19700
(
s.xiii1;
MS: s.xiii4/4
)
la congregation de Ely et la religion De dames ki remises furent […]
S Audree1 2404
♦
merch.(merchant) company:
(
1406
)
qe null congregation ne compaignie se face de tiele liveree de drap
Rot Parl1 iii 600
♦
zool.
herd, gathering of animals:
(
s.xii1;
MS: c.1145
) Encrepe les bestes del rosel, congregatiun des tors es vaches des poples
Oxf Ps ANTS 81.67.33
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