Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Middle English form of
church .
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Examples
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And in the myddes of the chirche is a tabernacle, as it were a lytylle hows, made with a low lytylle dore: and that tabernacle is made in manere of half a compass, righte curiousely and richely made, of gold and azure and othere riche coloures, fulle nobelyche made.
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And fro that hospitalle, to go toward the est, is a fulle fayr chirche, that is clept Nostre Dame la Graund.
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And fro that hospitalle, to go toward the est, is a fulle fayr chirche, that is clept _Nostre Dame la Graund_.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And in the myddes of the chirche is a tabernacle, as it were a lytylle hows, made with a low lytylle dore: and that tabernacle is made in manere of half a compass, righte curiousely and richely made, of gold and azure and othere riche coloures, fulle nobelyche made.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And fro that hospitalle, to go toward the est, is a fulle fayr chirche, that is clept _Nostre Dame la Graund_.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I Richard Hakluyt 1584
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And in the myddes of the chirche is a tabernacle, as it were a lytylle hows, made with a low lytylle dore: and that tabernacle is made in manere of half a compass, righte curiousely and richely made, of gold and azure and othere riche coloures, fulle nobelyche made.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I Richard Hakluyt 1584
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And 2 myle fro thens, is a faire chirche; where oure lady mette with Elizabethe, whan thei weren bothe with childe; and seynt John stered in his modres wombe, and made reverence to his Creatour, that he saughe not.
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In that place was wont to ben a faire chirche; and many othere there weren; but thei ben alle beten doun.
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And fro that chirche, is a myle to the castelle of Emaux; and there also oure Lord schewed him to 2 of his disciples, aftre His resurrexion.
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And with in the chirche of Seynt Sophie, an emperour somtyme wolde have biryed the body of his fadre, whan he was ded; and as thei maden the grave, thei founden a body in the erthe, and upon the body lay a fyn plate of gold; and there on was writen, in Ebreu, Grece and Latyn, lettres that seyden thus,
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