† wafer-cake Obs.
1. = wafer n. 1.
| 1585 Higins Junius' Nomencl. 84/2 Crustulum,..a wafer cake. 1593 George a Greene (1599) D 1, You shall haue wafer cakes your fill. |
b. fig. as a type of fragility.
| 1599 Shakes. Hen. V, ii. iii. 53 Trust none: for Oathes are Strawes, mens faiths are Wafer-Cakes. |
2. = wafer n. 2. Chiefly in hostile use.
| c 1560 tr. Latimer in Strype Eccl. Mem. (1721) III. ii. 90 The Papistes..wolde conteyne the natural Body which Christe had (Synne excepted) ageynst all Truthe, into a Wafer Cake. 1584 in Foley Rec. Eng. Prov. S.J. (1880) VI. 715 A super-altar, a pyx, a box of wafer cakes. 1594 Hooker Eccl. Pol. iv. vi. §1 The vse of wafer-cakes, the custome of godfathers & godmothers in baptisme, are things not commanded nor forbidden in the scripture. 1630 R. Johnson Kingd. & Commw. 476 Hee must..conge to the ground with his head, as Priests doe to their Wafer-cakes. |