ˈmass-book
[f. mass n.1 + book n.]
= missal. (Occas. used erron. for other service books.)
| c 1000 Canons of ælfric c. 21 in Thorpe Laws II. 350 Saltere and pistolboc, godspellboc and mæsseboc..ðas bec sceal mæssepreost nede habban. c 1200 Ormin Ded. 31 Þa Goddspelless..Þatt sinndenn o þe messeboc Inn all þe ȝer att messe. c 1300 Havelok 186 A wol fair cloth bringen he dede, And ther on leyde the messebok. c 1380 Wyclif Wks. (1880) 290 Blessed be god, þat in euery chirche haþ ordeyned masse bookis to witnesse his gospel. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 334/2 Messboke, missale. 1511 Ld. Treas. Acc. Scot. IV. 322 Ane miss buik bocht be him to the chapele. 1642 Milton Apol. Smect. Wks. 1851 III. 315 We then using a Liturgy farre more like to the Masse-book then to any Protestant set forme. c 1714 MS. Catal. Bks. bequeathed to Corp. Chr. Coll. Oxf. by Dr. T. Turner, A Primer (or Masse Book) in English and Latin. 1873 Longfellow Wayside Inn iii. Monk of Casal-Maggiore 23 A..monk..Who..to the mass-book gave but little heed. |