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1. accurse, v. View full entry lOE
...trans. = curse (in various senses)....
2. advent, n. View full entry lOE
...Christian Church Chiefly with capital initial. The ecclesiastical season immediately preceding Christmas....
3. † almightin, adj. (and n.) View full entry lOE
...As an attribute of God: = almighty1a. Also as : the Almighty, God....
4. † anˈblow, v. View full entry c1175
...To blow on or into, breathe upon, inspire....
5. belief, n. View full entry c1175
...Theol....
6. bidding, n. View full entry c1175
...The offering of a price for an article; a bid....
7. ˈbishoping, n.1 View full entry c1175
...The action or rite of confirmation. arch....
8. blessed | blest, adj. View full entry c1175
...Consecrated, hallowed, holy; consecrated by a religious rite or ceremony....
9. blissful, adj. View full entry c1175
...Of persons: Full of bliss, joyful; happy or joyous in the highest degree....
10. boon, n.1 View full entry c1175
...A prayer, petition, entreaty, request. Obs....
11. † ˈcantel-cape | ˈcantel-cope, n. View full entry a1121
...A kind of cope or cape....
12. cardinal, n. View full entry 1125
...One of the seventy ecclesiastical princes (six cardinal bishops, fifty cardinal priests, and fourteen cardinal deacons) who constitute the pope's council, or the sacred college, and to whom the right of electing...
13. chapter-house, n. View full entry a1122
...A building attached to a cathedral, monastery, etc., in which meetings of the chapter are held....
14. charity, n. View full entry 1154
...Christian love: a word representing caritas of the Vulgate, as a frequent rendering of ἀγάπη in N.T. Greek. With various applications: as...
15. † ˈchristenman | cristenman, n. View full entry a1200
...= Christian man, Christian....
16. Christmas, n. View full entry a1123
...The festival of the nativity of Christ, kept on the 25th of December. Usually extended more or less vaguely to the season immediately preceding and following this day, commonly observed as a...
17. church hay, n. View full entry c1175
...A churchyard. Cf. church haw...
18. church key, n. View full entry c1175
...Freq. in pl....
19. churchyard, n. View full entry ?a1160
...The enclosed piece of consecrated ground in which a church stands, formerly almost universally used as a burial ground for the parish or district, and occasionally still used for Christian burials or...
20. circumcision, n. View full entry c1175
...The action of circumcising; practised as a religious rite by Jews and Muslims, and by various other nations; also as a surgical operation....
