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† ˈtenebres Obs.
Forms: α. 5–9 tenebres; in sing. form 5 tenebre, 6 teneber, tenabur. β. 5 teneblus, 5–6 tenables; in sing. 6 teneble, -byll, tenable.
[a. F. tenèbres (11th c., in sense 1), ad. L. tenebræ, -ās, darkness. The β-forms were corruptions, confusing the word with tenable.]
1. Darkness, obscurity.
α1413Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton 1483) iii. iii. 51 Enuy is the doughter of the grete tenebre. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 420 b/1 Thou shalte deye here in tenebres or derknesse. 1483― G. de la Tour I vj b, For grete pyte..to see them goo and falle in the tenebres of helle. 1490― Eneydos ii. 14 Under the tenebres and derkenes, departed Eneas. 1656Blount Glossogr., Tenebres.., darkness, obscurity.
β1530Palsgr. 184 Les tenebres..a sodayne darkenesse or tenables,..or want of lyght in the night season.
2. = Tenebræ.
1539Bk. Ceremonies in Strype Eccl. Mem. (1721) I. App. cix. 292 The same service is called tenebres. 1658Phillips, Tenebres. 1703in Cath. Rec. Soc. Publ. VII. 146 Mr Nelson..was wth him at ye Tenebres at St Thos. 1801Lusignan IV. 138 [He] arrived there at the hour of the tenebres.
βa1450Myrc Festial 117 Hyt ys called wyth you teneblus; but holy chyrch callyþe hit tenebras, þat is to say, derkenes.
b. attrib. in sing. form tenebre, teneber (but the former may be the L. tenebræ), as tenebre candle, tenebre lesson, tenebre matins, tenebre service, Tenebre Wednesday.
1477–9Rec. St. Mary at Hill 91 Paid to Roger Middilton, wex Chaundeler, for..tapris, prickettes and tenebre candill, for euery lb, ob—xj s. ix d. 1525in Nichols Churchw. Acc. (1797) 273 For makyng of the paskall, wt the tenabur candell. 1529More Dyaloge i. xviii. Wks. 143/2 In the tenebre lessons leueth her candel burning styll. 1530Palsgr. 811/2 On Tenebre wednysdaye, le mercredy des Tenebres. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VIII 199 b, Which Richard..was boyled in Smythfelde the Teneber wednisday followyng.
β1530Palsgr. 280/1 Teneble wednisday,..mercredy saint. 1554Rec. St. Mary at Hill 397 Lyghtes that was burned of tenebyll weddyns day. 15..in Brand's Pop. Antiq. (1849) I. 48 Tenable candylls for the Judas. 1588Parke tr. Mendoza's Hist. China 151 [He] ariued at the mouth of the riuer Pagansinan vpon tenable wednesday. |