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† almose Obs.
5–6. Also 6 almoys(e, almoise, almos.
[A literary variant of alms, affected by many writers, chiefly ecclesiastical, in 16th c.; apparently a partial refashioning of ˈalmesse, ˈalmes, after med.L. elimosina, perhaps owing something to the contemporary northern almous, and (especially Sir T. More's almoise, almoyse) to the late Anglo-Fr. almosne, almoisne of the lawbooks.]
1. = alms 1.
1528More Heresyes iv. Wks. 1557, 263/2 Good workes, almoyse, fastyng. 1535Joye Apol. Tindale 43 Releifed by their dayly almose. c1550Cheke Matt. vi. 2 When yow givest ýin almos. 1559Bk. Comm. Prayer, Pr. for Ch. Mil., We humbly beseche the most mercifully to accepte our almose [1604 alms]. 1562Turner Baths 14 b, Clenge thyne herte from al synne and deal almoys. 1578Florio 1st Frutes 73 b, To doo almose unto the poore.
b. sing. with pl. almoses = alms 1 b.
1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 431/1, He..gafe for god largelye almoses to y⊇ blynde. 1553–87Foxe A. & M. (1596) 1075/2 All the praiers, suffragies, almoses, fastinges.
2. fig. = alms 2.
1513More Rich. III, Wks. 1557, 44/2 It wer almoise to hange them. 1532― Confut. Tindale Wks. 1557, 446/1 [They] be burned vp & fal as flatte to ashen as it were almoyse all obstinate heretiques dyd.
3. Comb.: see alms 4. |