† ˈlorespell Obs.
Forms: 1 lárspell, 2–3 larspel, 3 larspell, (3 lorspel(l, lærspel, larspæl), 4 lorespelle.
[f. lore n.1 + spell n.]
A sermon, instructive discourse.
| c 1000 ælfric Saints' Lives (1881) I. 58 Se bisceop..þam folce sæde..lar-spell. c 1175 Lamb. Hom. 63 Bred on grikisce is Larspel to us fuliwis. c 1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 143 Þa iherde hie seggen þat ure drihte on his lar⁓spelle sede þat alle men sholden deað polien. c 1205 Lay. 12654 Þa bi-gon he lar-spæl & of gode spæc swide wel. 13.. Minor Poems fr. Vernon MS. xxxvii. 124 Þreo þinges þer beþ..Seide me þe prest in his lore-spelle For whom I ouȝte loue Ihesu. |