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▪ I. † ˈarval, -el, -ill Obs. exc. dial.
Also 5–6 arvell, 7 arvall.
[App. adopted from Norse: cf. Da. arveöl, ON. erfi-öl (Vigfusson), OSw. arföl (Ihre), f. arf, arv, ON. arfr (OE. erfe) inheritance + öl ale, a banquet: see ale 3. Cf. also ON. erfi a wake, a funeral feast = erfi-öl.]
A funeral feast.
1459MS. Reg. Test. Ebor. IV. 249 b, [John Alanson leaues an ox] ‘ad distrib. inter propinquos et amicos meos, scilicet ad meum arvell.’ 1588Wills & Inv. Durh. (1860) 181/2 That secke..which was drouncke at the arvell. 1623MS. Richmond Wills Carthorpe, Her arvall, or funerall dinner. 1702Thoresby Diary I. 362 The following arvill, or treat, of cold posset, stewed prunes, cake, and cheese, prepared for the company. 1860Mrs. Gaskell C. Brontë 17 The old custom of ‘arvills,’ or funeral feasts. 1880Yorksh. Archæol. Jrnl. XXII. 290 The arval was held at the little village inn.
2. attrib., as in arval-bread, arval-dinner, etc.
1567MS. Durham Registry, For his arvell supper. 1691Ray N. Countr. Words 139 Arvel-Bread, Silicernium. 1778–80W. Hutchinson Northbld. II. 20 in Brand's Pop. Antiq. (Hazl.) II. 193 On the decease of any person possessed of valuable effects, the friends and neighbours of the Family are invited to dinner on the Day of Interment, which is called the Arthel or Arvel-dinner. 1807Douce Illust. Shaks. II. 203 (Jam.) In the North this feast is called an arval or arvil-supper; and the loaves that are sometimes distributed among the poor, arval-bread. 1875Whitby Gloss., Averill-breead, funeral loaves, spiced with cinnamon, nutmeg, sugar, and raisins.
3. ? Arval-bread.
1568Wills & Inv. N.C. (1835) 294 A boxe of arvell xviijd.—Hony ijs.
▪ II. arval, a.|ˈɑːvəl|
[ad. L. arvālis, f. arv-um arable land: see -al1.]
Of or belonging to ploughed land; esp. in Arval Brethren (= L. Frātres Arvāles), a college of twelve priests in Ancient Rome, who offered sacrifice to the field-Lares to secure the fertility of the soil.
1656in Blount Glossogr. 1854Keightley Mythol. Greece & It. (ed. 3) 461 The hymn of the Arval Brethren. |