1lifting, raising (of prisoner on to pillory):
(
s.xiiiex;
MS: s.xiv1/3
)
overtes penaunces sunt cestes [...] elevacion al pillorie, al tumbrel, emprisonement
142
2liturgicaleccl.Elevation of the Host, raising of the consecrated bread during the Eucharist:
(
c.1270;
MS: s.xiii4/4
)
(At the Requiem Mass for St. Richard) quant a l’elevatiun vint, Sa face trestute devint Cum fut la face d’un home vivant )
85 M61
(
MS: c.1335
) En memoire de la passioun Jesu Christ, deit um dire [...] a la elevacion, 'Te Deum laudemus'
286.52
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elevacion (c.1270)