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feretory|ˈfɛrɪtərɪ|
Forms: 4–5 fertre, (5 fiertre, feretre, fe(e)rtir, -yr, fertur(e, feratour), 5–6 fertour, feretorye, (6 fer(t)ter, fereture, -tery, fer(r)etorie, 8–9 fer(r)etry, 8– feretory.
[The current form is a perversion (by assimilation to various names of objects used in ritual) of ME. fertre, a. OF. fiertre:—L. feretrum, ad. Gr. ϕέρετρον, f. ϕέρειν to bear.]
1. A portable or stationary shrine, often made of or adorned with costly materials, in which were deposited the remains or relics of saints; a tomb.
c1330R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 36 He tok vp the bones, In a fertre tham laid. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints, Clement 919 Quhene þe pupule come to se His fertyre & til hyme pray. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 156/4 His bones there leyde in a worshypful fiertre or shryne. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. III. 92 Of Sanct Thomas translatit wer the bonis Intill ane ferter..fra his graif. 1593Rites & Mon. Ch. Durh. (Surtees) 58 A most sumptuous..shrine above the High Alter, called the Fereture. 1709Hearne Collect. (Oxf. Hist. Soc.) II. 261 Reliques belonging to St. Cuthbert's Feretory. 1762H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1765) I. i. 19 Porphyry stones for Edward the Confessor's feretory. 1844Lingard Anglo-Sax. Ch. (1845) II. ix. 80 The coffin was then brought from the feretory. 1863Sir G. G. Scott Glean. Westm. Abb. (ed. 2) 130 The golden feretory..was placed above the marble and mosaic base.
2. In etymological sense: A bier.
c1400Mandeville (1839) xxi. 225 Thei setten hem upon a blak Fertre. 1458Will of Duchess Exeter (Somerset Ho.), I..forbede..any..solempne Hers or Ferture. 1513Douglas æneis vi. xv. 68 How mony fertyris..Sall thow behald. a1572Knox Hist. Ref. Wks. (1846) I. 259 A barrow, called there fertory. 1848B. Webb Continent. Eccles. 16 A relic of the patron saint was exposed on a feretry in the nave.
3. A small room or chapel attached to an abbey or a church, in which shrines were deposited.
1449Will Sir W. Bruges in Illust. Mann. & Exps. (1797) 133 In the middle of the feretorye a gret round blak corver. 1480Caxton Chron. Eng. cclxi, The feratour of the abbey of Westmestre. 1593Rites & Mon. Ch. Durh. (Surtees) 6 The shrine of the holy and blessed man Saint Cuthbert within the Feretory. 1727J. Dart Canterb. Cathedr. 33 The lesser Armary..contain'd nothing but the Body of St. Blaise, being rather a Feretry than Store-room. 1860Hook Lives Abps. I. vii. 382 He [Odo] was taken up in his leaden coffin, and placed in the feretry of S. Dunstan.
4. attrib., as feretory-aisle.
1489Churchw. Acc. St. Margaret's, Westminster (Nichols 1797) 3 Lady Jakes for her grave in the feretre isle 7s. 4d. 1853Rock Ch. of Fathers III. x. 409 The feretory aisle. |