† sacrilegy Obs.
Forms: 4–5 sacri-, sacry-, sacrelegi(e, -legy(e, 6 sacralagie.
[ad. L. sacrilegium.]
= sacrilege n.1
| 13.. Ipotis 251 (Vernon MS.) in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1881) 344 In sacrilegye he sungede sore. c 1380 Wyclif Wks. (1880) 132 What eucre þou haldest to þe..ouer symple liflode & streit cloþing..is þefte, raueyne & sacrelegie. 1387 Trevisa Higden (Rolls) III. 463 Ȝif ȝe despiseþ God wytyngly, þanne ȝe beeþ i-holde in þe synne of sacrelegy. c 1449 Pecock Repr. iii. xix. 409 It is raueyn, it is sacrilegi [sacrilegium est], that is to seie thefte of holi good. 1529 Rastell Pastyme, Hist. Pap. (1811) 40 Banished for sacralagie. |