† wafer-caken.
Obsolete.
1.
a. = wafer n. 1.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > cake > [noun] > a cake > wafer
wafer1377
wafron?c1390
wafery1542
wafer-cake1585
wafer-biscuit1848
cake cone1910
1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 84/2 Crustulum,..a wafer cake.
1599 George a Greene sig. D1 You shall haue wafer cakes your fill.
b. figurative as a type of fragility.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > weakness > [noun] > brittleness or fragility > fragile thing or person
wafer-cake1600
porcelain1640
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry V ii. iii. 48 Trust none:..Mens words are wafer cakes.
2. = wafer n. 2. Chiefly in hostile use.
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society > faith > artefacts > consumables > eucharistic elements > bread > [noun]
fleshc1000
ofleteOE
mannaa1200
breada1225
bread of lifea1300
host1303
bodya1325
obleya1325
God's bodya1387
cakec1390
singing bread1432
bread of wheata1450
singing loaf1530
God's bread1535
bread god?1548
round robin?1548
holy bread1552
singing cake1553
Jack-in-the-box1554
wafer-cake?1554
wafer1559
wafer-bread1565
breaden god1570
mass cake1579
wafer-god1623
hostel1624
maker1635
hostie1641
oblata1721
altar bread1839
prosphora1874
?1554 tr. H. Latimer Protestation in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) III. xxxiv. 90 The Papistes..wolde conteyne the natural Body which Christe had (Synne excepted) ageynst all Truthe, into a Wafer Cake.
1584 in H. Foley Rec. Eng. Province Soc. of Jesus (1880) VI. 715 A super-altar, a pyx, a box of wafer cakes.
1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie iv. vi. 178 The vse of wafer-cakes, the custome of godfathers & godmothers in baptisme are things not commanded nor forbidden in scripture.
1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 476 Hee must..conge to the ground with his head, as Priests doe to their Wafer-cakes.
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