eOE Cleopatra Gloss. in W. G. Stryker Lat.-Old Eng. Gloss. in MS Cotton Cleopatra A.III (Ph.D. diss., Stanford Univ.) (1951) 365
Phase, eastran.
lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1101,
To Cristesmæssan ...on Westmynstre & to Eastran on Winceastre.
OE Ælfric De Temporibus Anni (Cambr. Gg.3.28) (2009) iv. 84
... fram ðære halgan eastertide oð eft eastron.
OE Blickling Homilies 67
Hælend cwom syx dagum ær Iudea eastrum, to Bethania.
OE Descent into Hell 15
Sohton sarigu tu sigebearn Godes ænne in þæt eorðærn þær...
OE Homily: Sunnandæges Spell (Tiber. A.iii) in A. S. Napier Wulfstan (1883) 222
... halgan eastorsunnandæg.
OE St. Mary of Egypt (Julius) (2002) 106
He...þe heora Eastergewuna wæron togædere becuman.
OE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Cambr. Univ. Libr.) v. xix. 470
Ic..., þæt ic ðas tide Eastrena
OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Hatton) (1900) i. x. 83
Se for his lichaman hefinysse & untrumnysse wearð forðfered on sæternes dæge on þam halgan easteræfenne.
OE West Saxon Gospels: John (Cambr. Univ. Libr.) xx. 11 (rubric)
...easterucan.
OE West Saxon Gospels: Mark (Corpus Cambr.) xiv. 1
Soþlice þa æfter twam dagum wæron eastron.
1225a (▸?a1200) MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 101 (MED),
...biforen estre ...
1225a (▸?a1200) MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 95
On ester euen ...
1275c (▸?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 9230
He ferde to Lunden. He wes þere an Æstre.
1300c St. Brendan (Harl.) l. 151 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 224
Þer ȝe schulle þis ester ...
1300c St. Brendan (Harl.) l. 215 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 225 (MED), ...
ester-feste.
1300c St. Brendan (Laud) l. 366 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 229 (MED),...
an ester eue.
1325a (▸c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 3289
Ðor-of in esterne be we wunen Seuene siðes to funt cumen.
1325c (▸c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) l. 6062 (MED),
Þe saterday þe ester wouke þis holy man...
1325c (▸c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) l. 9098 (MED),
Nobliche is ester feste he huld..
1387▸a J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. ix. xxxi. 546
Ester hattepascha in grewe..and is iclepid in ebrewe phase, þat is ‘passinge oþir passage’.
1387▸a J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 111 (MED),
Euery ȝere an Ester...
1387▸a J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1876) VI. 189 (MED),
For to holde ariȝt þe Ester ...
1387▸a J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1879) VII. 439 (MED),
... in þe Ester wyke.
1389 in T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 35
Þe soneday fourtnythe after esterne.
1400a (▸c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) l. 2023 (MED),
...; yn estyr tyme ...
1400c Prose Versions New Test.: 1 Cor. (Selwyn) v. 8 (MED),
Crist is y-offred, oure astur-lomb.
1425a Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) II. 133 (MED),
On Eestir monedai.
1429 in Norfolk Archaeol. (1904) 15 148 (MED),
Ye saterday estern even we herieden j acre of lond.
1440▸ Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 143/2
Eesterne, Pascha.
1443 Acct. in Berks., Bucks. & Oxon. Archaeol. Jrnl. (1902) 8 27 (MED),
Estertapur.
1450a St. Edith (Faust.) (1883) l. 3131 (MED),
Þis astere-lomb apered þere opynlyche in herre syȝt.
1450a St. Edith (Faust.) (1883) l. 3140
Þis miracle was þus..y-do, In þe astere nexste after hurre body-dyenge.
1450c (▸c1400) Bk. Vices & Virtues (Huntington) 131 (MED),
... I haue desired þis Eestren, þat is þis Paske.
1455 in Trans. Bristol & Gloucs. Archaeol. Soc. (1890) 15 147 (MED),
... Tuesday yn the Estur weke.
1475a in F. J. Furnivall Polit., Relig., & Love Poems (1903) 277 (MED),
He ros on estryn morwe.
1480 Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxxxiii. 254
The clergye..wold not graunte vnto Estre next comyng.
1500a(▸a1415) J. Mirk Festial (Gough) 68 (MED),
... tyll he come to Astyr Setyrday.
1517 R. Torkington Oldest Diarie Eng. Trav. (1884) 66
....Ester evyn, Ester Day, And also Ester munday..Ester Tewysday..we Departyd.
1526 Bible (Tyndale) Acts xx. 6
After the ester holidayes.
1530 Myrroure Oure Lady ii. f. clviv,
From passyon sonday tyl Esterne.
1534 King Henry VIII in J. Bacon Liber Regis (1786) p. vi,
..., boks of accoumpt, Ester boks, and all other writings.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Esdras vii. 10
They that came out of captiuyte, kylled the easter lambe.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ezek. xlv. 21
Vpon ye xiiij. daye of the first moneth ye shal kepe Easter.
1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Mark xiv. 15
There prepare you for vs our easter souper.
1549 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16267) Celebr. Holye ommunion f. lx,
Tuisdaye in Easter weke.
1563 2nd Tome Homelyes Whitsunday i, in J. Griffiths Two Bks. Homilies (1859) ii. 453
Easter, a great, and solemne feast among the Jewes.
1565 T. Stapleton tr. Bede Hist. Church Eng. ii. ii. f. 49v,
As yet they kept not the Easter sondaye in dew time,...
1568 L. Vaux Catechisme f. 90,
Euery Christian man and woman..at euery Easter time to receiue [the Sacrament].
1579 G. Gilpin tr. P. van Marnix van Sant Aldegonde Bee Hiue of Romishe Church v. f. 330v,
These are the wordes which shee doeth vse vpon Easter eeuen, in the hallowing or sanctifying of her Easter Tapers.
1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xxx. 561
Jesus the true Easterlambe.
1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie iv. xi. 194
Keeping the feast of Easter on the same day the Iewes kept theirs.
1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxxii. 208
That one Sabboth or Saturday which falleth out to bee the Easter-eue.
1598 R. Hakluyt tr. Vincent of Beauvais in Princ. Navigations (new ed.) I. 66
Vpon Easter euen we were called vnto the tent.
1602 S. Patrike tr. J. de Hainault Estate of Church 196
This Theodorus instituted the blessing of the Sierge on Easter Saterday.
1611 Bible (A.V.) Acts xii. 4 Intending after Easter to bring him foorth.
1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 173
That Impostury of fetching fire from the Sepulcher upon Easter eve.
1615 in H. Fishwick Hist. Garstang (1878) i. ii. 88 The
Easter dueties and paymts att Easter commonlie called the Easter Reckonings.
1617 J. Moore Mappe Mans Mortal. iii. x. 255
The sweet Easter-Lambe must be eaten with sowre hearbes.
1623 J. Abbot Iesus Præfigvred ii. 47
At Easter time ...(As was the Israelites) with a Lambe stord.
1635 R. Boyle Diary in Lismore Papers (1884) 1st Ser. IV. 138, 50li
...which I am to abate owt of his next Easter exhibicon.
1642 T. Fuller Holy State iii. xxv. 229
Necessity will..make him study his Easter-book more then all other Writers.
1653–4 B. Whitelocke Diary 27 Mar. (1990) 345
Easter Monday there was great solemnity ...
1654a A. Ross Πανσεβεια (1655) xiii. 447
They [sc. Catholics] consecrate also their Crosses and Images, and Easter Tapers.
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. i. v. 30
The solemnity of Easter Festivall duly celebrated.
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ii. 55
The Spring-time, wherein the Feast of Easter..was celebrated.
1662 Bk. Common Prayer Collect Easter Evening,
That through the grave, and gate of death, we may pass ...
1662 E. Reynolds Articles Diocese of Norwich 5
Do all Communicants pay their Easter dues to your Minister?
1662 P. Gunning Paschal or Lent-Fast 37 S.
...to observe the Christian Easter on the same day with the Jewish Easter.
1665 Disc. conc. Devils & Spirits i. iv. 5 in R. Scot Discov. Witchcraft (ed. 3) ,
... Good-friday, and Easter-sunday.
1670a S. Collins Present State Russia (1671) 18
In the Easter week all his Majesties Servants and Nobility kiss the Patriarchs Hand, and receive either gilded, or red Eggs.
1676 A. Marvell Mr. Smirke sig. B2v,
... yea their Easter-pence by advance.
1679 R. Haines Method of Govt. 5
...to the Justices at their Easter sitting.
1680 Dryden Kind Keeper iv. i. 39 ...and out-fac'd me with Oaths, it was but Easter.
1700 T. Marwood Diary 8 Apr. in Publ. Catholic Rec. Soc. (1909) 7 62,
... & Saw ye Quire do their Easter.
1708 W. Nicolson London Diaries 25 Mar. (1985) 465
She miscarryed on Easter-Monday ...
1708a R. Davies Acct. Convincem., Exercises, Services & Trav. (1710) 133,
... for that which he called Easter-Reckonings... He said, I owed him for several Years for the Sacrament.
1712a G. Martine Reliquiæ Divi Andreae (1797) 188
The senȝie mercat..beginning the second week after Easter.
1722 London Gaz. No. 6052/1,
The Easter-Holidays having passed.
1748 A. Bower Hist. Popes I. 234
At Easter, ..., in all likelihood, all Easter time.
1754 J. M. Magens tr. P. S. Nakskow Art. Faith Holy Evangelical Church xxvii. 168
Christ..instituted..the Lord's Supper in the Room of the Easter Lamb.
1755 T. Forbes in C. Gist Jrnls. (1893) 148
Easter Tuesday we embarked.
1775 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 65 329
...; but the Easter book enumerates only 450 families.
1782 in J. H. Harting Hist. Sardin. Chapel (1905) 25
On the 20th of April, 1782, on Easter Eve, this year.
1782 J. Priestley Hist. Corruptions Christianity II. viii. 129 The first..festival..that was observed..was Easter.
1785 Strother's Jrnl. 30 Mar. (1912) (modernized text) ii. 81 ...receiving the Easter dues to six days.
1789 J. Clarke Surv. Lakes Cumberland (ed. 2) p. xxi, ... to mention here the pace-eggs of Easter-Sunday, [etc.].
1791 J. Woodforde Diary 22 Apr. (1927) III. 267 ... to go with us to a Play at Norwich in the Easter Week.
1792 J. Douglas Disc. Infl. Christian Relig. xii. 213 The catastrophe took place at the celebration of Easter, when the Jews had flocked to the city from the distant regions of the empire.
1797 J. Hey Lect. Divinity II. iii. vi. §2. 49 This part of Scripture [sc. 1 Pet. iii: 19] is still used as the Epistle for Easter Even.
Phase, eastran.
lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1101,
To Cristesmæssan ...on Westmynstre & to Eastran on Winceastre.
OE Ælfric De Temporibus Anni (Cambr. Gg.3.28) (2009) iv. 84
... fram ðære halgan eastertide oð eft eastron.
OE Blickling Homilies 67
Hælend cwom syx dagum ær Iudea eastrum, to Bethania.
OE Descent into Hell 15
Sohton sarigu tu sigebearn Godes ænne in þæt eorðærn þær...
OE Homily: Sunnandæges Spell (Tiber. A.iii) in A. S. Napier Wulfstan (1883) 222
... halgan eastorsunnandæg.
OE St. Mary of Egypt (Julius) (2002) 106
He...þe heora Eastergewuna wæron togædere becuman.
OE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Cambr. Univ. Libr.) v. xix. 470
Ic..., þæt ic ðas tide Eastrena
OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Hatton) (1900) i. x. 83
Se for his lichaman hefinysse & untrumnysse wearð forðfered on sæternes dæge on þam halgan easteræfenne.
OE West Saxon Gospels: John (Cambr. Univ. Libr.) xx. 11 (rubric)
...easterucan.
OE West Saxon Gospels: Mark (Corpus Cambr.) xiv. 1
Soþlice þa æfter twam dagum wæron eastron.
1225a (▸?a1200) MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 101 (MED),
...biforen estre ...
1225a (▸?a1200) MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 95
On ester euen ...
1275c (▸?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 9230
He ferde to Lunden. He wes þere an Æstre.
1300c St. Brendan (Harl.) l. 151 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 224
Þer ȝe schulle þis ester ...
1300c St. Brendan (Harl.) l. 215 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 225 (MED), ...
ester-feste.
1300c St. Brendan (Laud) l. 366 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 229 (MED),...
an ester eue.
1325a (▸c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 3289
Ðor-of in esterne be we wunen Seuene siðes to funt cumen.
1325c (▸c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) l. 6062 (MED),
Þe saterday þe ester wouke þis holy man...
1325c (▸c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) l. 9098 (MED),
Nobliche is ester feste he huld..
1387▸a J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. ix. xxxi. 546
Ester hattepascha in grewe..and is iclepid in ebrewe phase, þat is ‘passinge oþir passage’.
1387▸a J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 111 (MED),
Euery ȝere an Ester...
1387▸a J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1876) VI. 189 (MED),
For to holde ariȝt þe Ester ...
1387▸a J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1879) VII. 439 (MED),
... in þe Ester wyke.
1389 in T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 35
Þe soneday fourtnythe after esterne.
1400a (▸c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) l. 2023 (MED),
...; yn estyr tyme ...
1400c Prose Versions New Test.: 1 Cor. (Selwyn) v. 8 (MED),
Crist is y-offred, oure astur-lomb.
1425a Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) II. 133 (MED),
On Eestir monedai.
1429 in Norfolk Archaeol. (1904) 15 148 (MED),
Ye saterday estern even we herieden j acre of lond.
1440▸ Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 143/2
Eesterne, Pascha.
1443 Acct. in Berks., Bucks. & Oxon. Archaeol. Jrnl. (1902) 8 27 (MED),
Estertapur.
1450a St. Edith (Faust.) (1883) l. 3131 (MED),
Þis astere-lomb apered þere opynlyche in herre syȝt.
1450a St. Edith (Faust.) (1883) l. 3140
Þis miracle was þus..y-do, In þe astere nexste after hurre body-dyenge.
1450c (▸c1400) Bk. Vices & Virtues (Huntington) 131 (MED),
... I haue desired þis Eestren, þat is þis Paske.
1455 in Trans. Bristol & Gloucs. Archaeol. Soc. (1890) 15 147 (MED),
... Tuesday yn the Estur weke.
1475a in F. J. Furnivall Polit., Relig., & Love Poems (1903) 277 (MED),
He ros on estryn morwe.
1480 Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxxxiii. 254
The clergye..wold not graunte vnto Estre next comyng.
1500a(▸a1415) J. Mirk Festial (Gough) 68 (MED),
... tyll he come to Astyr Setyrday.
1517 R. Torkington Oldest Diarie Eng. Trav. (1884) 66
....Ester evyn, Ester Day, And also Ester munday..Ester Tewysday..we Departyd.
1526 Bible (Tyndale) Acts xx. 6
After the ester holidayes.
1530 Myrroure Oure Lady ii. f. clviv,
From passyon sonday tyl Esterne.
1534 King Henry VIII in J. Bacon Liber Regis (1786) p. vi,
..., boks of accoumpt, Ester boks, and all other writings.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Esdras vii. 10
They that came out of captiuyte, kylled the easter lambe.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ezek. xlv. 21
Vpon ye xiiij. daye of the first moneth ye shal kepe Easter.
1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Mark xiv. 15
There prepare you for vs our easter souper.
1549 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16267) Celebr. Holye ommunion f. lx,
Tuisdaye in Easter weke.
1563 2nd Tome Homelyes Whitsunday i, in J. Griffiths Two Bks. Homilies (1859) ii. 453
Easter, a great, and solemne feast among the Jewes.
1565 T. Stapleton tr. Bede Hist. Church Eng. ii. ii. f. 49v,
As yet they kept not the Easter sondaye in dew time,...
1568 L. Vaux Catechisme f. 90,
Euery Christian man and woman..at euery Easter time to receiue [the Sacrament].
1579 G. Gilpin tr. P. van Marnix van Sant Aldegonde Bee Hiue of Romishe Church v. f. 330v,
These are the wordes which shee doeth vse vpon Easter eeuen, in the hallowing or sanctifying of her Easter Tapers.
1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xxx. 561
Jesus the true Easterlambe.
1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie iv. xi. 194
Keeping the feast of Easter on the same day the Iewes kept theirs.
1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxxii. 208
That one Sabboth or Saturday which falleth out to bee the Easter-eue.
1598 R. Hakluyt tr. Vincent of Beauvais in Princ. Navigations (new ed.) I. 66
Vpon Easter euen we were called vnto the tent.
1602 S. Patrike tr. J. de Hainault Estate of Church 196
This Theodorus instituted the blessing of the Sierge on Easter Saterday.
1611 Bible (A.V.) Acts xii. 4 Intending after Easter to bring him foorth.
1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 173
That Impostury of fetching fire from the Sepulcher upon Easter eve.
1615 in H. Fishwick Hist. Garstang (1878) i. ii. 88 The
Easter dueties and paymts att Easter commonlie called the Easter Reckonings.
1617 J. Moore Mappe Mans Mortal. iii. x. 255
The sweet Easter-Lambe must be eaten with sowre hearbes.
1623 J. Abbot Iesus Præfigvred ii. 47
At Easter time ...(As was the Israelites) with a Lambe stord.
1635 R. Boyle Diary in Lismore Papers (1884) 1st Ser. IV. 138, 50li
...which I am to abate owt of his next Easter exhibicon.
1642 T. Fuller Holy State iii. xxv. 229
Necessity will..make him study his Easter-book more then all other Writers.
1653–4 B. Whitelocke Diary 27 Mar. (1990) 345
Easter Monday there was great solemnity ...
1654a A. Ross Πανσεβεια (1655) xiii. 447
They [sc. Catholics] consecrate also their Crosses and Images, and Easter Tapers.
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. i. v. 30
The solemnity of Easter Festivall duly celebrated.
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ii. 55
The Spring-time, wherein the Feast of Easter..was celebrated.
1662 Bk. Common Prayer Collect Easter Evening,
That through the grave, and gate of death, we may pass ...
1662 E. Reynolds Articles Diocese of Norwich 5
Do all Communicants pay their Easter dues to your Minister?
1662 P. Gunning Paschal or Lent-Fast 37 S.
...to observe the Christian Easter on the same day with the Jewish Easter.
1665 Disc. conc. Devils & Spirits i. iv. 5 in R. Scot Discov. Witchcraft (ed. 3) ,
... Good-friday, and Easter-sunday.
1670a S. Collins Present State Russia (1671) 18
In the Easter week all his Majesties Servants and Nobility kiss the Patriarchs Hand, and receive either gilded, or red Eggs.
1676 A. Marvell Mr. Smirke sig. B2v,
... yea their Easter-pence by advance.
1679 R. Haines Method of Govt. 5
...to the Justices at their Easter sitting.
1680 Dryden Kind Keeper iv. i. 39 ...and out-fac'd me with Oaths, it was but Easter.
1700 T. Marwood Diary 8 Apr. in Publ. Catholic Rec. Soc. (1909) 7 62,
... & Saw ye Quire do their Easter.
1708 W. Nicolson London Diaries 25 Mar. (1985) 465
She miscarryed on Easter-Monday ...
1708a R. Davies Acct. Convincem., Exercises, Services & Trav. (1710) 133,
... for that which he called Easter-Reckonings... He said, I owed him for several Years for the Sacrament.
1712a G. Martine Reliquiæ Divi Andreae (1797) 188
The senȝie mercat..beginning the second week after Easter.
1722 London Gaz. No. 6052/1,
The Easter-Holidays having passed.
1748 A. Bower Hist. Popes I. 234
At Easter, ..., in all likelihood, all Easter time.
1754 J. M. Magens tr. P. S. Nakskow Art. Faith Holy Evangelical Church xxvii. 168
Christ..instituted..the Lord's Supper in the Room of the Easter Lamb.
1755 T. Forbes in C. Gist Jrnls. (1893) 148
Easter Tuesday we embarked.
1775 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 65 329
...; but the Easter book enumerates only 450 families.
1782 in J. H. Harting Hist. Sardin. Chapel (1905) 25
On the 20th of April, 1782, on Easter Eve, this year.
1782 J. Priestley Hist. Corruptions Christianity II. viii. 129 The first..festival..that was observed..was Easter.
1785 Strother's Jrnl. 30 Mar. (1912) (modernized text) ii. 81 ...receiving the Easter dues to six days.
1789 J. Clarke Surv. Lakes Cumberland (ed. 2) p. xxi, ... to mention here the pace-eggs of Easter-Sunday, [etc.].
1791 J. Woodforde Diary 22 Apr. (1927) III. 267 ... to go with us to a Play at Norwich in the Easter Week.
1792 J. Douglas Disc. Infl. Christian Relig. xii. 213 The catastrophe took place at the celebration of Easter, when the Jews had flocked to the city from the distant regions of the empire.
1797 J. Hey Lect. Divinity II. iii. vi. §2. 49 This part of Scripture [sc. 1 Pet. iii: 19] is still used as the Epistle for Easter Even.
Of the 79 sources, 42 are from primary sources. Of the remaining 36 sources, the Gentle Reader may come their own conclusion regarding their accuracy. It is interesting that as late as 1792, people still associate Easter with both Christianity and Judaism.
Because of the ambiguity of Easter at the end of the 18th century, we will research "paschal" below.
Because of the ambiguity of Easter at the end of the 18th century, we will research "paschal" below.
1426–7 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 64 For a pece of tymbre to þe newe Paschall, ij s..for a dysch of peuter of þe Paskall, viij.
1442 Acct. in Berks., Bucks. & Oxon. Archaeol. Jrnl. (1901) 7 114 (MED), For Pascal & Trendill lights x d. ob.
1443▸c R. Pecock Reule of Crysten Religioun (1987) 313 Þe chirche makiþ þe paschal tapir forto represente þe persoon of crist.
1450c Alphabet of Tales (1904) I. 86 (MED), Onone as þe pascall was blissid, sodanlie it was away.
1475?a (▸?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl.) (1874) V. 377 The grete cicle of the terme Paschalle [a1387 J. Trevisa tr. Ester terme; L. termini Paschalis] is finischede or complete in this vthe yere of Iustinus, whiche is of v c yere and xxxijti from the passion of Criste.]
1477–9 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 92 For makyng of the paschall tapre..weyng xxx lb.
1478 in E. Hobhouse Church-wardens' Accts. (1890) 6 Comes Hill and Harper and presents in of pascal money, that they gadered on Ester Day vijs ixd.
1500a (1440) Lydgate Horse, Goose & Sheep (Lansd.) 316 in Minor Poems (1934) ii. 552 (MED), This Paschale Lamb..yaff His bodi to man in forme of bred On Sheerthursday be-forn ar He was ded.
1506 in J. L. Glasscock Rec. St. Michael's, Bishop's Stortford (1882) 31 For the paskal sylver at Ester eve.
1519 in W. L. Nash Churchwardens' Acct. Bk. St. Giles, Reading (1851) 5 For wax and making of the Pascall.
1519 in W. L. Nash Churchwardens' Acct. Bk. St. Giles, Reading (1851) 6 For mending and scouring of the Pascall cansticke.
1520–1 in J. Nichols Illustr. Antient Times Eng. (1797) 166 Item, payde for strykynge of the Paskall-tapers into betynge light for the tapers 0 0 1.
1535a T. More Treat. Passion in Wks. (1557) 1307/2 The feast of the vnleuened loues was called the Paschall.
1545 W. Turner Rescuynge of Romishe Fox sig. Diiv, It is good to take Christis cup from the laymen,..to hallow the font and the pascal and litle candelles.
1552 King Edward VI Chron. & Polit. Papers (1966) (modernized text) 125 The payment of £26,000 which the fuggers required to be paid at the Paschal Mart [Easter Fair].
1553 Stanford Churchwardens' Accts. in Antiquary (1888) 17 117 It. of ye parisheoners for crowche monay or paschull monay iiijs. vijd.
1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 46 He did desire to eat the Pascall of the lawe.
1581 R. Goade in Confer. (1584) iii. T iij, There was some distance of time betweene the Pascall and the Supper.
1593 in Rites & Mon. Church Durh. (1903) 11 On the height of the sd candlestick or pascall of lattine was a fair large flower..wherein did stand a long peece of wood..wheron stood a great long square tap of wax called the pascall.
1596 A. Copley Fig for Fortune 50 Was not he the holie Paschall-lambe That di'd repinelesse for the sinnes of man?
1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxxi. 197 There is no Iewish pascall solemnitie nor abstinence from sower bread now required at our hands.
1599 R. Pont Newe Treat. Right Reckoning of Yeares 62 The variety of the course of the Moone, can not so formally bee counted thereby, as by the Golden number, which conteineth lesse space: besides that, the Paschal tearms aggree not oftimes thereto.
1637 G. Gillespie Dispute against Eng.-Popish Ceremonies iv. vi. 26 Many societies conveened to the eating of the Paschall Supper by Twenties.
1653 Bp. J. Taylor 25 Serm. Golden Grove 39 They then thought that when the Paschall taper burn'd, the flames of hell could not burn, till the holy wax was spent.
1656 R. Vines Treat. Inst. Lords-Supper i. 4 The Levites killed the Paschals.
1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa i. ii. 34 To suffer them [sc. Jews]..to Celebrate their Paschal with all possible Solemnity.
1670 T. Blount Law Dict. at Paschal Rents, Rents or yearly tributes paid by the inferior Clergy to the Bishop or Arch-Deacon at their Easter-Visitation.
1683 J. Evans Case of Kneeling I. 21 At the beginning of the Paschal Feast the Jews did put themselves into this Discumbing or Leaning posture..while they Eat and Drank the two first Cups of Wine.
1684 J. Strype tr. J. Lightfoot Horæ Hebraicæ in Wks. II. 252 That Judas after the Paschal-Supper..could make his agreement with the Priests, and get his blades together ready to apprehend our Saviour.
1702 V. Mandey tr. J. J. Hainlin Synopsis Mathematica: Astron. iii. 515 Given the Dominical Letter, likewise the Cycle of the Moon, or the Golden Number; to find the Paschal Term or Easter.
1714a J. Sharp Wks. (1754) VII. Serm. xii. 223 The paschal-feast, from whence our Saviour took his sacrament of the Lord's supper.
1735 Gentleman's Mag. July 366/1 The Paschal Lamb being not the real Passover but a Memorial.
1737 W. Jackling Paschal Solemnity Rectified 8 The Paschal Term is fix'd in the Table on the first of April, when the Golden Number is 15.
1772 T. Nugent tr. J. F. de Isla Hist. Friar Gerund I. 61 At the time of confession and pasqual communion.
1787 J. Woodforde Diary 3 Jan. (1926) II. 294 Incurations and Pascals for 2 Years, 0.19.3.
1799 P. Spindleshanks Battle Two Taylors 8 Thou whip'd thy wife each day, And acted so like a dam'd raskel, The Church forbid you eat the paschal.
1442 Acct. in Berks., Bucks. & Oxon. Archaeol. Jrnl. (1901) 7 114 (MED), For Pascal & Trendill lights x d. ob.
1443▸c R. Pecock Reule of Crysten Religioun (1987) 313 Þe chirche makiþ þe paschal tapir forto represente þe persoon of crist.
1450c Alphabet of Tales (1904) I. 86 (MED), Onone as þe pascall was blissid, sodanlie it was away.
1475?a (▸?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl.) (1874) V. 377 The grete cicle of the terme Paschalle [a1387 J. Trevisa tr. Ester terme; L. termini Paschalis] is finischede or complete in this vthe yere of Iustinus, whiche is of v c yere and xxxijti from the passion of Criste.]
1477–9 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 92 For makyng of the paschall tapre..weyng xxx lb.
1478 in E. Hobhouse Church-wardens' Accts. (1890) 6 Comes Hill and Harper and presents in of pascal money, that they gadered on Ester Day vijs ixd.
1500a (1440) Lydgate Horse, Goose & Sheep (Lansd.) 316 in Minor Poems (1934) ii. 552 (MED), This Paschale Lamb..yaff His bodi to man in forme of bred On Sheerthursday be-forn ar He was ded.
1506 in J. L. Glasscock Rec. St. Michael's, Bishop's Stortford (1882) 31 For the paskal sylver at Ester eve.
1519 in W. L. Nash Churchwardens' Acct. Bk. St. Giles, Reading (1851) 5 For wax and making of the Pascall.
1519 in W. L. Nash Churchwardens' Acct. Bk. St. Giles, Reading (1851) 6 For mending and scouring of the Pascall cansticke.
1520–1 in J. Nichols Illustr. Antient Times Eng. (1797) 166 Item, payde for strykynge of the Paskall-tapers into betynge light for the tapers 0 0 1.
1535a T. More Treat. Passion in Wks. (1557) 1307/2 The feast of the vnleuened loues was called the Paschall.
1545 W. Turner Rescuynge of Romishe Fox sig. Diiv, It is good to take Christis cup from the laymen,..to hallow the font and the pascal and litle candelles.
1552 King Edward VI Chron. & Polit. Papers (1966) (modernized text) 125 The payment of £26,000 which the fuggers required to be paid at the Paschal Mart [Easter Fair].
1553 Stanford Churchwardens' Accts. in Antiquary (1888) 17 117 It. of ye parisheoners for crowche monay or paschull monay iiijs. vijd.
1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 46 He did desire to eat the Pascall of the lawe.
1581 R. Goade in Confer. (1584) iii. T iij, There was some distance of time betweene the Pascall and the Supper.
1593 in Rites & Mon. Church Durh. (1903) 11 On the height of the sd candlestick or pascall of lattine was a fair large flower..wherein did stand a long peece of wood..wheron stood a great long square tap of wax called the pascall.
1596 A. Copley Fig for Fortune 50 Was not he the holie Paschall-lambe That di'd repinelesse for the sinnes of man?
1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxxi. 197 There is no Iewish pascall solemnitie nor abstinence from sower bread now required at our hands.
1599 R. Pont Newe Treat. Right Reckoning of Yeares 62 The variety of the course of the Moone, can not so formally bee counted thereby, as by the Golden number, which conteineth lesse space: besides that, the Paschal tearms aggree not oftimes thereto.
1637 G. Gillespie Dispute against Eng.-Popish Ceremonies iv. vi. 26 Many societies conveened to the eating of the Paschall Supper by Twenties.
1653 Bp. J. Taylor 25 Serm. Golden Grove 39 They then thought that when the Paschall taper burn'd, the flames of hell could not burn, till the holy wax was spent.
1656 R. Vines Treat. Inst. Lords-Supper i. 4 The Levites killed the Paschals.
1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa i. ii. 34 To suffer them [sc. Jews]..to Celebrate their Paschal with all possible Solemnity.
1670 T. Blount Law Dict. at Paschal Rents, Rents or yearly tributes paid by the inferior Clergy to the Bishop or Arch-Deacon at their Easter-Visitation.
1683 J. Evans Case of Kneeling I. 21 At the beginning of the Paschal Feast the Jews did put themselves into this Discumbing or Leaning posture..while they Eat and Drank the two first Cups of Wine.
1684 J. Strype tr. J. Lightfoot Horæ Hebraicæ in Wks. II. 252 That Judas after the Paschal-Supper..could make his agreement with the Priests, and get his blades together ready to apprehend our Saviour.
1702 V. Mandey tr. J. J. Hainlin Synopsis Mathematica: Astron. iii. 515 Given the Dominical Letter, likewise the Cycle of the Moon, or the Golden Number; to find the Paschal Term or Easter.
1714a J. Sharp Wks. (1754) VII. Serm. xii. 223 The paschal-feast, from whence our Saviour took his sacrament of the Lord's supper.
1735 Gentleman's Mag. July 366/1 The Paschal Lamb being not the real Passover but a Memorial.
1737 W. Jackling Paschal Solemnity Rectified 8 The Paschal Term is fix'd in the Table on the first of April, when the Golden Number is 15.
1772 T. Nugent tr. J. F. de Isla Hist. Friar Gerund I. 61 At the time of confession and pasqual communion.
1787 J. Woodforde Diary 3 Jan. (1926) II. 294 Incurations and Pascals for 2 Years, 0.19.3.
1799 P. Spindleshanks Battle Two Taylors 8 Thou whip'd thy wife each day, And acted so like a dam'd raskel, The Church forbid you eat the paschal.
There are 36 references to paschal and of these, 18 are primary sources and of the primary sources only four are dated before 1600. Since Easter is determined by Passover, the following list is the combination of the previous two lists. Secondary sources are omitted.
The following are references to Easter in the Oxford English Dictionary. Secondary sources are in red. References after 1800 are omitted.
lOE anno 1101, To Cristesmæssan ... & to Eastran on Winceastre.
OE Hælend cwom syx dagum ær Iudea eastrum, to Bethania.
OE Sohton sarigu tu sigebearn Godes ænne in þæt eorðærn þær...
OE Ic..., þæt ic ðas tide Eastrena
OE ...easterucan.
OE Soþlice þa æfter twam dagum wæron eastron.
1480 The clergye..wold not graunte vnto Estre next comyng.
1526 After the ester holidayes.
1530 From passyon sonday tyl Esterne.
1535 They that came out of captiuyte, kylled the easter lambe.
1535 Vpon ye xiiij. daye of the first moneth ye shal kepe Easter.
1545 ... font and the pascal and litle candelles.
1548 ... vs our easter souper.
1549 Celebr. Holye ommunion f. lx, Tuisdaye in Easter weke.
1565 ... the Easter sondaye in dew time...
1568 Euery Christian man and woman..at euery Easter time to receiue...
1579 ... vpon Easter eeuen... Easter Tapers.
1579 ... the Pascall of the lawe.
1587 ... Easterlambe.
1593 ... the feast of Easter on the same day the Iewes ...
1596 Was not he the holie Paschall-lambe That di'd repinelesse ...
1597 There is no Iewish pascall solemnitie nor ...
1597 .... bee the Easter-eue.
1599 ...the Paschal tearms aggree not oftimes thereto.
1602 .. of the Sierge on Easter Saterday.
1611 Intending after Easter to bring him foorth.
1615 ... from the Sepulcher upon Easter eve.
1617 The sweet Easter-Lambe must be eaten with sowre hearbes.
1623 At Easter time you joye to see your Board...
1637 ... the Paschall Supper by Twenties.
1642 Necessity will..make him study his Easter-book more ...
1653 They then thought that when the Paschall taper burn'd...
1655 The solemnity of Easter Festivall duly celebrated.
1655 The Spring-time, wherein the Feast of Easter...was celebrated.
1656 The Levites killed the Paschals.
1662 That through the grave, and gate of death...
1662 Do all Communicants pay their Easter dues ...
1662 ...to observe the Christian Easter on the same day with ...
1665 ... and Easter-sunday.
1670 ... their Paschal with all ...
1670 ... Bishop or Arch-Deacon at their Easter-Visitation.
1676 [Some] would... yea their Easter-pence by advance.
1679 ...to the Justices at their Easter sitting.
1680 ... and out-fac'd me with Oaths, it was but Easter.
1683 At the beginning of the Paschal Feast the Jews did put ...
1684 That Judas after the Paschal-Supper....
1702 ... the Paschal Term or Easter.
1722 The Easter-Holidays having passed.
1735 The Paschal Lamb being not the real Passover but a Memorial.
1737 The Paschal Term is fix'd in the Table on the first ...
1748 At Easter ... meaning, in all likelihood, all Easter time.
1754 ...t the Easter Lamb.
1772 At the time of confession and pasqual communion.
1775 ...but the Easter book enumerates only 450 families.
1782 The first..festival..that was observed..was Easter.
1792 ... at the celebration of Easter...
1797 ... the Epistle for Easter Even.
1799 ... The Church forbid you eat the paschal.
OE Hælend cwom syx dagum ær Iudea eastrum, to Bethania.
OE Sohton sarigu tu sigebearn Godes ænne in þæt eorðærn þær...
OE Ic..., þæt ic ðas tide Eastrena
OE ...easterucan.
OE Soþlice þa æfter twam dagum wæron eastron.
1480 The clergye..wold not graunte vnto Estre next comyng.
1526 After the ester holidayes.
1530 From passyon sonday tyl Esterne.
1535 They that came out of captiuyte, kylled the easter lambe.
1535 Vpon ye xiiij. daye of the first moneth ye shal kepe Easter.
1545 ... font and the pascal and litle candelles.
1548 ... vs our easter souper.
1549 Celebr. Holye ommunion f. lx, Tuisdaye in Easter weke.
1565 ... the Easter sondaye in dew time...
1568 Euery Christian man and woman..at euery Easter time to receiue...
1579 ... vpon Easter eeuen... Easter Tapers.
1579 ... the Pascall of the lawe.
1587 ... Easterlambe.
1593 ... the feast of Easter on the same day the Iewes ...
1596 Was not he the holie Paschall-lambe That di'd repinelesse ...
1597 There is no Iewish pascall solemnitie nor ...
1597 .... bee the Easter-eue.
1599 ...the Paschal tearms aggree not oftimes thereto.
1602 .. of the Sierge on Easter Saterday.
1611 Intending after Easter to bring him foorth.
1615 ... from the Sepulcher upon Easter eve.
1617 The sweet Easter-Lambe must be eaten with sowre hearbes.
1623 At Easter time you joye to see your Board...
1637 ... the Paschall Supper by Twenties.
1642 Necessity will..make him study his Easter-book more ...
1653 They then thought that when the Paschall taper burn'd...
1655 The solemnity of Easter Festivall duly celebrated.
1655 The Spring-time, wherein the Feast of Easter...was celebrated.
1656 The Levites killed the Paschals.
1662 That through the grave, and gate of death...
1662 Do all Communicants pay their Easter dues ...
1662 ...to observe the Christian Easter on the same day with ...
1665 ... and Easter-sunday.
1670 ... their Paschal with all ...
1670 ... Bishop or Arch-Deacon at their Easter-Visitation.
1676 [Some] would... yea their Easter-pence by advance.
1679 ...to the Justices at their Easter sitting.
1680 ... and out-fac'd me with Oaths, it was but Easter.
1683 At the beginning of the Paschal Feast the Jews did put ...
1684 That Judas after the Paschal-Supper....
1702 ... the Paschal Term or Easter.
1722 The Easter-Holidays having passed.
1735 The Paschal Lamb being not the real Passover but a Memorial.
1737 The Paschal Term is fix'd in the Table on the first ...
1748 At Easter ... meaning, in all likelihood, all Easter time.
1754 ...t the Easter Lamb.
1772 At the time of confession and pasqual communion.
1775 ...but the Easter book enumerates only 450 families.
1782 The first..festival..that was observed..was Easter.
1792 ... at the celebration of Easter...
1797 ... the Epistle for Easter Even.
1799 ... The Church forbid you eat the paschal.
There are 58 primary sources referencing either "Easter" or "Paschal" before the year 1800. The breakdown of the entries by half century and century are shown below:
pre 1450 6
1451-1500 1 pre 1500 7
1501-1550 7
1551-1600 10 1501-1600 17
1601-1650 7
1651-1700 15 1601-1700 22
1701-1750 5
1751-1800 7 1701-1800 12