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soul-mass Now Hist. or dial.
Also 5–6 Sc. sawle mess, saul(e) mes(se, etc., 6 north. sall messe, sawmos, 9 sawmas, saumas, etc.; 5 sowlemas(se, 8 solmus, 9 soulmas(s.
[f. soul n. + mass n.1 Cf. MDu. siel-, zielmisse (Du. zielmis), MLG. sêlemisse, MHG. sêl(e)messe (G. seel-, seelenmesse), ON. sálumessa, Sw. själamessa, Da. sjælemesse.]
1. A mass for the soul of a dead person.
In early use Sc. and north.
1488Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. I. 89 To the King to offir at the Qwenis sawle mess. 1496Ibid. 278 To the Kingis offerand at the Kingis saulmes. 1537Registr. Aberdon. (Maitland) I. 414 To þe viccaris of þe queir..ȝeirlie in þe day of his decese for derege and sawllmess. a1578Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 369 All thair great blythnes and ioy of hir comming..war all turnit in saul messes and deriegies. 1675Brooks Gold. Key Wks. 1867 V. 216 The papists..who..for the obtaining of pardon, &c., have appointed penances and pilgrimages, and self⁓scourgings and soul-masses. 1681Burnet Hist. Ref. II. 25 The use and lawfulness of soul-masses and obits. 1828Scott F.M. Perth xxx, Bid the grey monk his soul mass mutter. 1853Rock Ch. of Fathers IV. xii. 176 The mass for the dead or soul-mass, as our fathers called it, had ritual peculiarities.
2. Soul-mass Day, All Souls' Day, 2 Nov. Also ellipt. Now dial.
c1450Mirk's Festial 269 Þe morow aftyr All-halowday ys euermor Sowlemasse-day. 1461Paston Lett. II. 64 Wretyn in hast, on Sowlemas Daye. 1533Test. Ebor. (Surtees) V. 262 To poor people of All-halowe day and Sawmos day. 1876Robinson Mid-Yks. Gloss., Saumas,..the feast of All Souls, November 2.
3. attrib. In a number of dial. uses, as Soul-mass cake, -loaf (see quots.); Soul-mass hiring, a hiring-fair held on or about All Souls' Day.
1661Blount Glossogr. (ed. 2), Soul-masse-Cakes, are certain oaten cakes, which some of the wealthier sort of persons in Lancashire [1674 adds Herefordshire, &c.] use still to give the poor on All-Souls day. a1800Pegge Suppl. Grose, Solmus-loaf, bread given away on All Souls day. North. 1817G. Young Hist. Whitby II. 882 A lady in Whitby has a soul mass loaf about 100 years old. 1837Thornber Hist. Blackpool 92 The beggar at the door craving an awmas, or saumas cake, (soulmass cake). 1884North Star 7 Nov., Ripon Hirings. The Soulmas hirings were held yesterday.
Hence † ˈsoul-ˌmassing vbl. n., the action or practice of saying masses for the dead. Obs.—1
c1555? Bradford Carrying Christ's Cross vii. 90 So doeth it cast down al their soule massing and foolish foundacions for such, as be dead. |