▪ I. yhole
pa. pple. of hele v.1, to conceal.
▪ II. † yhole, a. Obs.
Forms: 1 ᵹehal, 3 ihal, 3–4 ihol, 4 yhol, 4–5 yhole.
[OE. ᵹehál: see y- 3 b and whole a.]
Whole, sound.
| c 1000 ælfric Hom. II. 154 Ða ᵹemette he þæt fæt..swa ᵹehal þæt ðær nan cinu on næs ᵹesewen. c 1000 Sax. Leechd. I. 354 Wyrc swa hit man ᵹehal forswelᵹan mæᵹe. c 1205 Lay. 821 Al ihal & al isund. a 1225 Ancr. R. 80 Hope halt þe heorte i hol. 1340 Ayenb. 228 Huo þet is yhol of bodie and uoul ine herte is ase þe berieles yhuited. c 1430 Two Cookery-bks. 22 Þen take figys, an kerue hem a-to, or Roysonys y-hole. |
Hence † yholliche, wholly; † yholnesse, † yholschipe, wholeness.
| a 1240 Ureisun in O.E. Hom. I. 203 Moder of swich sune wið iholschipe of meiden. c 1315 Shoreham iii. 223 Þarefore do þe al y-holliche Þat day [sc. mass-day] to holy þynge. 1340 Ayenb. 127 Þe loue of þe herte huerby he him yefþ y-holliche and wyþoute corrupcion to þet ha loueþ. Ibid. 230 Yholnesse and clennesse of bodye þet is to zigge þet þet body by y-hol wyþoute uelþe of lecherie. a 1400 in Eng. Gilds (1870) 362 Ȝif þ{supt} þe axkere bryngeþ skore oþer wryt, and aske þe berynge y-holecheche [sic]. |