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† soul-knell Obs.
[f. soul n. + knell n.]
The knell rung or tolled at or after the death of a person. Also fig.
a1300Vox & Wolf 251 in Hazl. E.P.P. I. 66 Thi soul⁓cnul ich wile do ringe, And masse for thine soule singe. c1400Laud Troy Bk. 5796 Thei myȝt haue rongen here soule-knylle... Thei hadde dyed for-sothe both, Ne hadde y-come Ayax. 1515Scottish Field 409 in Percy's Folio MS. I. 232 The King of his kindnesse..saith, ‘I will sing him a sowle knell with the sound of my gunnes’. 1575Gascoigne Posies Ep. Yng. Gent., Wks. 1907 I. 11 That the Soulknill of M. Edwards was also written in extremitie of sicknesse.
So † soul-knoll. Obs.—1
c1500Ripon Ch. Acts (Surtees) 377 The sawll knoll, vj d. |