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halirift

, holy + rift.
Searchable Lemmata: haligrift (OE), holi rift (ME).
Alternate Forms: hali rifte, hali3raft.

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1a(n.) Garment; 'holy veil' (literally) or similar coverning for the head; long sheet or over garment typically described as worn by females. The term is often found in Old English versions of Biblical tales and in descriptions of female ecclesiastical garments. The term can refer to a literal garment or, by metonomy, the status of wearing the garment (sense 1b), and often the context is not clear.(ante 1000 - ante 1225)
1. theristro : haligryfteA gloss pertaining to the story of Judith. [DOE AldV 1 (Goossens) (5117 (5123))]
2. Ond sancta Hylda wæs XXXIII geara on læwedum hade and XXXIII geara under haligryfte, ond heo þa gewat to Cryste. Biblical/Hagiographic. [DOE Mart 2.1 (Herzfeld-Kotzor) (0098 (No 17, A.10))]
3. Þu min leofe bearn Irtace. nu ðu wast þæt effigenia ðines foregengan dohtor is þæs heofenlican cyninges bryd. and mid haligrefte gehalgod. Hu miht ðu þam ælmihtigan his bryde beniman. and ðinum sinscipe geðeodan? Irtacus ða wearð swiðe geyrsod. and ðonon swa gewat; [DOE ÆCHom II, 37 (0063 (277.163))]
4. On XIIIInihte monan is god ælc telge to anginnanne ærest & on niwne hired to færenne & preost to halgiene & nunnan haligref to anfone. [DOE Prog 6.9 (Först) (0014 (14))]
5. & hio an Ceoldryþe hyre blacena tunecena swa þer hyre leofre beo & hyre betsð haliryft & hyre betsþan bindan & <Æþelflæde> þisse Hwitan hyre cincdaðenan cyrtel & cuffian & bindan & finde Æðelflæd syþþan an hyre nunscrude loce hwæt hio betsð mæge Wulfflæde & Æþelgife & ice mid golde þæt hyra ægþer hyru hæbbe LX penenga <wyrþ> & Ceolwynne & Edburge þæt sy XXX penega wyrþ. Wills. [DOE Ch 1539 (Whitelock 3) (0031 (75)) 900/1100]
6. Me hire hafd bi-wefde mid ane hali rifte and heo wes þer munechene. Heroic, Historic. [MED Lay.Brut ((Clg A.9) 14211) circa 1275]
7. Sancte Benedihit ... wesecceð mantel to3eanes þære cule, and hali3raft ... habben hi3 eac haliref. [MED Wint.Ben.Rule ((Cld D.3) 111.4,16) ante 1225]
ME, OE; Primarily Ecclesiastic/Regula; Uncertain.
Sex: Female    Use: Ecclesiastical    Status: High    Rank: Uncertain    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: Head, Neck, Shoulder(s).
1b(adj.) Law/Custom; state of having accepted the holy veil; sisterhood.(ante 1100)
1. & sancta Seaxburh & sancta Eormenhild onfengon haligrifte on ðam mynstre, þe is gecweden Middeltune on Kentlande. [DOE LS 27.2 (SeaxburghFörst) (0013 (16))]
2. And heo þa, sancte Mildryð, eft to hyre medder ham com, and heo hire þa þæt mynster forgeaf, þa hit gestaðelod wæs, and heo þa, sancte Mildryð, haligrifte onfengc æt Theodore arcebiscope, and hundseofontig mædena mid hyre, þe se cyningc and hire modor begiten hæfdon and gelæred, þæt hig æt þare stowe nytte beon mihton. [DOE KSB 8.1 (Liebermann) (0014 (14))]
3. Þæt mynster wæs geworden & getimbred noht micle ær from Hegiu þære <æfestan> Cristes þeowe, seo ærest wiifa is sægd in Norðanhymbra mægðe, þæt heo munuchade & haligryfte onfenge þurh halgunge Aidanes þæs biscopes. [DOE Bede 4 (0493 (24.332.23))]
OE; Primarily Ecclesiastic/Regula.
Sex: Female    Use: Ecclesiastical    Status: High    Rank: Uncertain    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts:

    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, A Germanic compound.
WF: Compound
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