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OE Ælfric Homily (Corpus Cambr. 162) in B. Assmann Angelsächsische Homilien u. Heiligenleben (1889) 71 Se hælend ær his þrowunge gehalgode hlaf and win to husle and het syððan don swa on his gemynde, and þa wæs seo mæsse asteald þurh þone mildheortan Crist, þe us þæt wed sealde urum sawlum to clænsunge.

OE Ælfric 1st Let. to Wulfstan (Corpus Cambr. 190) in B. Fehr Die Hirtenbriefe Ælfrics (1914) 100 Nu is seo mæsse gemynd his [sc. Christ's] mæran þrowunge.

a1325 (c1280) Southern Passion (Pepys 2344) (1927) 858 In þe obley and in þe wyn, his owe fflesch and blode At þe Masse is as purliche as he hit shadde on the rode.

c1390 in F. J. Furnivall Minor Poems Vernon MS (1901) ii. 486 (MED) Þou leuest not in þe Mes, Þat euer God þer in Is.

a1400 (?c1300) Lay Folks Mass Bk. (Royal) (1879) 2 (MED) Þo worthyest þing..In al þis world is þo messe.

c1480 (a1400) SS. Cosmas & Damian 1 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 292 Of haly messe in þe secre syndry sanctis set we se.

1549 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16267) Svpper of the Lorde f. cxxj The Svpper of the Lorde, and the holy Communion, commonly called the Masse.

1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. xxxiij These men..admoshing..to put downe the Masse.

1563 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1888) I. 56 The mayst blissit, feirfull, and haly sacrifice of the mes.

1628 P. Smart Vanitie Popish Cerem. *ij b The Author of this sermon telling him [sc. Cosens] upon occasion the Masse is disallowed: hee replyed roundly: Will you deny that our Service is a Masse?

1635 E. Pagitt Christianographie (1636) i. iii. 96 A true, Reall, Propitiatorie and unbloudie Sacrifice, under the name of the Masse.

1682 Letany for S. Omers ii. ix All Adorers of the Mass, Who bow to Wood, and Stone, and Brass.

1737 R. Challoner Catholick Christian Instructed vi. 81 The Priest that officiates in the Mass officiates as Christ's Vicegerent.

1772 T. Nugent tr. J. F. de Isla Hist. Friar Gerund II. 372 The sacro-seric vestments which adorn the priest in the celebration of the sacrifice of the mass.

1853 J. B. Marsden Hist. Early Puritans (ed. 2) 28 Admitting a real presence in the mass.

1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People vii. §1. 346 The Sacrament of the Mass..was attacked with a scurrility and profaneness, which passes belief.

1953 E. L. Mascall Corpus Christi iii. 79 It is possible to point to parishes whose priest is an enthusiastic amateur liturgiologist, where the layfolk have to adapt themselves at regular intervals to fresh modifications in the rite and ceremonies of the Mass.

1994 Latin Mass Jan. 39 We all sense that chant has a way of grounding the Mass in the deepest recess of our bodies.

1621 J. Molle tr. P. Camerarius Liuing Libr. iii. v. 165 He gaue not his almes to that man, or to this, but to all the masse of man-kind.

1675 R. Baxter Catholick Theol. i. i. 65 The Corrupted Mass simply considered was the object of no one of all these graces.

1713 G. Berkeley in Guardian 16 June 1/1 The whole Mass of Mankind.

1846 R. Browning Luria v, in Bells & Pomegranates No. VIII 20/1 Those who live as models for the mass.

1848 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 1st Ser. v. 67 The mass ough' to labour an' we lay on soffies.

1875 W. D. Whitney Life & Growth Lang. ix. 159 The language of the mass goes on changing unchecked.

a1902 F. Norris Pit (1903) vii. 252 Architecture..is an expression of and an appeal to the common multitude, a whole people, the mass.

1951 ‘Palinurus’ Unquiet Grave (rev. ed.) iii. 121 What illness performs for the individual, war accomplishes for the mass.

1993 Rochestarian Dec. 21/1 Kiss ass, move with the mass and for heaven and ratings' sake don't make anybody mad.