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‖ Corpus Christi|ˈkɔːpəs ˈkrɪstaɪ, -tɪ|
[L.; = Christ's body.]
R. C. Ch. The Feast of the Blessed Sacrament or Body of Christ, observed on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday.
In many places (e.g. at York and Coventry) it was regularly celebrated by performance of the Sacred Plays or Pageants: hence Corpus Christi play.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xv. 381 As clerkes in corpus-christi feste singen & reden. c1415Crowned King 19 On Corpus Christi even. 1476in York Myst. Introd. 37 All þe artificers belonging to Corpus Xti Plaie. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. III. 108 This samin tyme..Completit wes..Of Corpus-cristie the solempnitie. c1540J. Heywood Four P.P. in Hazl. Dodsley I. 374 This devil and I were of old acquaintance; For oft, in the play of Corpus Christi, He hath played the devil at Coventry. 1656Dugdale Antiq. Warwickshire 116/1 The pageants that were play'd therein, upon Corpus-Christi day. 1863Longfellow Wayside Inn, Theol. Tale 25 He..At plays of Corpus-Christi oft was seen. 1885Catholic Dict. 227/1 s.v., This custom of carrying the Blessed Sacrament in procession on Corpus Christi. |