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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.)
c1000ælfric Gram. ix. §18. 43 November: se mónað ongynð on ealra hálᵹena mæssedæᵹ. c1375Layfolk's Mass Bk. 8 To God full of myght, And to his modir mayden bryght, And to alle halouse here. 1413Lydg. Pylgr. Sowle v. vi. (1859) 78 In the feste of al halowen, euery saynt..taketh his owne place. c1450Knt. de la Tour 106 The pistelle upon the feest of alhalwynne. 1494Fabyan vii. ccxx. 242 Vsed to swere by Alhalowes, that he had nat one peny. 1528More Heresyes ii. Wks. 1557, 196/1 Ye conclude y⊇ thinge displeasant to god and to all hallowes. 1552Lyndesay Complaynt 190, I hald thareto, man, be alhallow. 1565J. Calfhill Answ. Treat. Crosse (1846) 67 The devout fathers..did consecrate a church in the same place unto All-Hallous. 1646Ordin. Lords & Comm. 9 Alhallowes in Bread Street.
2. = All Hallows' Day, or All-hallowmas. arch.
1503Plumpton Corr. 183 If he come againe afor alhallowes. 1647Crashaw 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.
1483Caxton G. de la Tour G vij, Thepystle of al hallowen day. 1493Festivall (W. de Worde 1515) 147 b, Good frendes suche a daye ye shall haue all halowen daye. 1552Chron. 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.
1556Chron. Grey Friars 17 Thys yere the towne of Depe was tane..on Halhalon evyn. 1603Shakes. Meas. for M. ii. i. 130 Clo. Was't not at Hallowmas, master Froth? Fro. Allhallond-Eue. 1698Stow 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.
1083O.E. Chron. (Laud MS.) æfter ealra halᵹena mæsse dæᵹ. c1325Cœur de Lion 5878 And wente home at Alhalewemeise. 1330R. Brunne Chron. 145 Þe moneth of Nouembre, after Alhalwemesse. c1425Wyntoun Cron. viii. xiii. 177 Fra þe Alhalowmes.. til yhule he bydand wes. 1598Shakes. Merry W. i. i. 211 Upon Allhallowmas last, a fortnight afore Michaelmas. 1725H. 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.
1548Chron. Grey Friars 57 This yere before Alhallontyd was sett up the howse for the markyt folke in Newgate market for to waye melle in. 1549Duke of Somerset in Strype Eccl. Mem. vi. 409 Parliament cannot be assembled before Allhallowntide. 1578R. Scot Hoppe Garden 17 Cut your Poales betweene All hallowentyde and Christmas. 1592L. Mascall Plant. & Graff. 16 Betwixt Alhallowtide & Christmas. 1653Walton Angler 222 About All-hollantide, when you see men ploughing up heath-ground. 1679Burnet Hist. Ref. 290 The final payment being to be at allhallontide. 1743Lond. & 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.
1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, i. ii. 178 Farwell the latter Spring! Farwell, Alhollown Summer! |