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sacring-bell
[sacring vbl. n.]
1. A small bell rung at the elevation of the host.
1395E.E. Wills (1882) 5, I bequethe a chales and a pax⁓bred,..and a sacrynge belle. 1449Churchw. Acc. Yatton (Somerset Rec. Soc.) 90 For a rop for the sacryng bell, iiiid. 1502Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. (1900) II. 343 Item, for tua small sacryne bellis, tane at ane cremar. 1584R. Scot Discov. Witchcr. v. iii. (1886) 76 He heard a little saccaring bell ring to the elevation of a morrowe masse. 1846R. Hart Eccl. Rec. 225 The sacring bell, which was rung at the elevation of the host. 1884Sunday at Home Feb. 102/2 No latticed confessional—no sacring bell.
¶2. In post-Reformation times, sometimes applied to a small bell rung to summon parishioners to morning prayers, or to mark the point in the Communion Service at which the people should go up to communicate.
1598Drayton Heroic Ep. iii. 71 Who would not rise to ring the Mornings Knell, When thy sweet Lips might be the sacring Bell? 1641I. H. Petit. agst. Pocklington 2 He hath caused a Bell to be hung up in his Chancell, called a Sacring Bell, which the Clarke always rings at the going up to second Service. 1766Entick London IV. 75 A lantern, which..incloses the sacring-bell, to call the parishioners to prayers. |