1theol.antichrist, embodiment of supreme evil who is predicted to oppose Jesus Christ and to rule as a false Messiah in the time before Doomsday:
(
c.1141;
MS: s.xiii4/4
) Li malfé antecrist, Ki contraire iert a crist
915
(
MS: s.xiiim
)
Pur ce, sacez, antecrist apelé serra, Kar encuntre crist ert
6
(
c.1270;
MS: c.1270-75
)
Mes ceuls [...] aurrunt auntecrist le diable, disaunz ke nul n’est semblable a auntecrist, ne nul n’est k’em pust auwelir a sa force
568-9
(
s.xiii2;
MS: s.xiv1/4
)
Un deable en terre engendré serra Que ert auntecrist appelé
23
(
1311
)
En qi temps fust la vewe granté en bref d’entrusion en le temps le antecrist
Ed II xi 77
(
c.1334;
MS: s.xivm
) le fyne du siecle, qant anticrist serra venuz
7
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antecrist (c.1141)