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monstrance|ˈmɒnstrəns|
Also 3–4 mustrance, 4 munstrance, 6 monstrans.
[a. OF. monstrance (AF. moustraunce: Britton c 1290), ad. med.L. monstrant-ia, f. L. monstrant-em: see monstrant a. and -ance.]
†1. Demonstration, proof. Obs.
a1300Cursor M. 21796 In constantinopil and in france, Godd had mad mani mustrance. c1400Ibid. 22298 (Edinb.) Antecriste..in þe tempil sale he site..þare sale he do him circumsise, and munstrance make of his maistris.
†b. Law. In monstrance of right, translating AF. monstrance (moustrance) de droit, a writ issuing out of Chancery, for restoring a person to lands or tenements legally belonging to him, though found in possession of another lately deceased. Obs.
1651tr. Kitchin's Courts Leet (1675) 421 He shall have Traverse or Monstrans of Right to the same. 1668Hale Pref. to Rolle's Abridgm. a ij b, Offices post Mortem, Traverses interpleder, and Monstrans of Right in relation thereunto.
2. R.C. Ch.
a. An open or transparent vessel of gold or silver, in which the host is exposed.
1506in Brit. Mag. (1833) III. 39 Itm paid for the hyre of A Monstrans at corpus xpe tyde viij d. 1552Inv. Ch. Goods Surrey 84 A monstrance of sylver. 1851J. H. Newman Cath. in Eng. 244 One of them [i.e. the priests]..takes out the Blessed Sacrament, inserts it upright in a Monstrance of precious metal. 1872O. Shipley Gloss. Eccl. Terms s.v. Benediction, The priest..turns and blesses the people with the monstrance which contains the blessed Sacrament.
b. A receptacle used for the exhibition of relics.
1522in Nichols Mann. Anc. Times (1797) 272 Item, a monstrans, wt a relike of Sent Marten. 1876C. M. Davies Unorth. Lond. 233 The chapel of St. Paul..exhibited in a monstrance the relics of the saint. |