All-Hallow, -s
(ˌɔːlˈhæləʊ(z))
[all- E 1 + hallows pl. of hallow, OE. hálᵹa, a holy (man), a saint. The nom. pl. hálᵹan passed through the forms halwen, halowen, halowe, halowes. The gen. pl. hálᵹena with -tide, -day, became halwene, halwen, halowen, hallowen, hallown, hallon, hollan, holland.]
1. All saints, the saints (in heaven) collectively. (Often as dedication of a church.)
| c 1000 ælfric Gram. ix. §18. 43 November: se mónað ongynð on ealra hálᵹena mæssedæᵹ. c 1375 Layfolk's Mass Bk. 8 To God full of myght, And to his modir mayden bryght, And to alle halouse here. 1413 Lydg. Pylgr. Sowle v. vi. (1859) 78 In the feste of al halowen, euery saynt..taketh his owne place. c 1450 Knt. de la Tour 106 The pistelle upon the feest of alhalwynne. 1494 Fabyan vii. ccxx. 242 Vsed to swere by Alhalowes, that he had nat one peny. 1528 More Heresyes ii. Wks. 1557, 196/1 Ye conclude y⊇ thinge displeasant to god and to all hallowes. 1552 Lyndesay Complaynt 190, I hald thareto, man, be alhallow. 1565 J. Calfhill Answ. Treat. Crosse (1846) 67 The devout fathers..did consecrate a church in the same place unto All-Hallous. 1646 Ordin. Lords & Comm. 9 Alhallowes in Bread Street. |
2. = All Hallows' Day, or All-hallowmas. arch.
| 1503 Plumpton Corr. 183 If he come againe afor alhallowes. 1647 Crashaw Poems 21 How fit our well-rank'd Feasts do follow, All mischief comes after All-Hallow. |
3. All Hallows' Day: All Saints' Day; the first of November. arch.
| 1483 Caxton G. de la Tour G vij, Thepystle of al hallowen day. 1493 Festivall (W. de Worde 1515) 147 b, Good frendes suche a daye ye shall haue all halowen daye. 1552 Chron. Grey Friars 76 On alhallon day began the boke of the new servis of bred and wyne in Powlles. Item after allhollan day was no more communyon but on the sondayes. |
4. All Hallow Eve: the eve of All Saints. (See also Hallow-e'en.) arch.
| 1556 Chron. Grey Friars 17 Thys yere the towne of Depe was tane..on Halhalon evyn. 1603 Shakes. Meas. for M. ii. i. 130 Clo. Was't not at Hallowmas, master Froth? Fro. Allhallond-Eue. 1698 Stow Surv. (ed. Strype 1754) I. i. xxix. 304/1 These Lords (of misrule) beginning their rule at Alholland Eve. |
5. Allhallowmass: the feast of All Saints. arch.
| 1083 O.E. Chron. (Laud MS.) æfter ealra halᵹena mæsse dæᵹ. c 1325 Cœur de Lion 5878 And wente home at Alhalewemeise. 1330 R. Brunne Chron. 145 Þe moneth of Nouembre, after Alhalwemesse. c 1425 Wyntoun Cron. viii. xiii. 177 Fra þe Alhalowmes.. til yhule he bydand wes. 1598 Shakes. Merry W. i. i. 211 Upon Allhallowmas last, a fortnight afore Michaelmas. 1725 H. Bourne Antiq. Vulg. xix, Lighted tapers..were then wont to cease till the next All-hallow-mass. |
6. Allhallowtide: the season of All Saints. arch.
| 1548 Chron. Grey Friars 57 This yere before Alhallontyd was sett up the howse for the markyt folke in Newgate market for to waye melle in. 1549 Duke of Somerset in Strype Eccl. Mem. vi. 409 Parliament cannot be assembled before Allhallowntide. 1578 R. Scot Hoppe Garden 17 Cut your Poales betweene All hallowentyde and Christmas. 1592 L. Mascall Plant. & Graff. 16 Betwixt Alhallowtide & Christmas. 1653 Walton Angler 222 About All-hollantide, when you see men ploughing up heath-ground. 1679 Burnet Hist. Ref. 290 The final payment being to be at allhallontide. 1743 Lond. & Count. Brewer iii. (ed. 2) 171 From Michaelmas to Alhollantide, their Well-Water has such an earthy ill Quality. |
7. All-Hallown Summer: a season of fine weather in the late autumn; also fig. brightness or beauty lingering or reappearing in old age. Apparently Obs., but worthy of revival, as much superior to its equivalents, St. Martin's Summer (from French), and the Indian Summer of America.
| 1596 Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, i. ii. 178 Farwell the latter Spring! Farwell, Alhollown Summer! |