1canon.eccl.liturgicalpurification, action of making something free of guilt or sin:
(
1376-77
)
le juge de Seinte Esglise [...] purra conustre de la verité del dit condition ou manere, a l’effect del purificacion d’icele
ii 373
2eccl.femaleliturgicalBibl.theol.churching, spiritual purification occurring 40 days after childbirth:
(
s.xiii2/4;
MS: s.xiiim
)
Ore avez, pucele, esprovee la tranchaunte pointe de cele espee dunt Symeon vus fist mencion le jur de vostre purificacion
(A) 68.54
(
c.1334;
MS: s.xivm
)
doner congé qe eles pussent aprocher lour barons avant les jours de purificacion acompliz
35.30
(
1397
)
la nativité, presentacion et purificacion Nostre Dame
288
♦
eccl.timeliturgicalFebruary 2nd, Candlemas, Feast of the Purification of B.V.M.:
(
c.1240;
MS: c.1300
)
Tant ke vint la duce sesun De la seinte purificaciun Ke nus apelum Chandelure
133.86
(
1326-27
)
feste de la purificacion de Notre Dame
i 255
purificacion (s.xiii2/4)