holy loaf
= holy bread. Also attrib. holy loaf money.
| 1499 Churchw. Acc. Croscombe (Som. Rec. Soc.) 24 Paid..for tynnyng of the lyght and the holy-lofe xvj{supd}. 1548–9 (Mar.) Bk. Com. Prayer, Communion (Rubric), The Parishioners of euerye Parishe shall offer euery Sonday, at the tyme of the Offertory, the iuste valour and price of the holy lofe..to the use of theyr Pastours and Curates. 1616 in T. D. Whitaker Hist. Whalley (1801) 149 The parishioners..are accustomed to pay an ancient duty called ‘Holy loaf money’. 1849 Rock Ch. of Fathers I. 137 This holy loaf or eulogia was meant to be an emblem of..brotherly love. |