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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Quotation dates: 1399-1651
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Pilgrim, n. Also: pyl- and -grime, -grym(e, -gram(e, -grayme, -griame; -grem, -greim; -grom, -grum; pilgerame. [ME. and e.m.E. pilegrim (c 1200), pille-, pelegrim (c 1205), pylegrim (Manning), pilgrym (Wyclif), -grim (14th c.), pylgreme (Prompt. Parv.), pilgrem (1526), also northern pilgrime (Cursor M.), -grame (Cath. Angl.), repr. OF. *pelegrin, antecedent form of pelerin (11th c. in Littré), L. peregrīnus. Cf. Pilgrin, Pelerin, Pelegrin.The forms in -grame, -grayme, are appar. only northern and (chiefly) Sc.]
A pilgrim.
a. One who travels from place to place; a wayfarer, a traveller; a sojourner. b. spec. One who is making a journey to a shrine or sacred place as an act of religious devotion; one making a pilgrimage. Also possess. as attrib.Also attrib. with -wede (-weeds).Between senses a and b there is some ambiguity, not always resolved by the context.a. a1400 Legends of the Saints iii. 1001.
Thane com a pylgrime … To the ȝet … For Goddis sak entre askand c1420 Wynt. v. 148.
As wndyrneth a palme thai lay … As pilgrymys that for-tyryd ware a1500 Henr. Fab. 181 (Asl.).
As pur pilgryme [Bann. pilgrem] scho passit owt of toune a1500 Buke of the Sevyne Sagis 1988.
Thar was … gret blythnes … And the pilgryme all quyte forȝet c1520-c1535 Nisbet Luke xxiv. 18.
Thou thi self art a pilgrime in Jerusalem(b) 1513 Doug. iii. Prol. 5.
Pail Cynthia … Schipmen and pilgrymys [Sm. -grymmis] hallowis thi mycht 1513 Ib. xiii. Prol. 170 (C).
Schynys the lycht cleir Welcum to pilgrym baith and lauborer(c) a1400 Legends of the Saints iii. 1128.
Sancte Andro … As a pylgrame apperyt here a1400 Ib. xxix. 598.
As pylgram of land can ga With his wyf & barnis twa a1400 Ib. v. 636. a1508 Kennedy Pass. Christ 513.
With thai pennyis the preistis of the law To berry pilgrames bocht ane sepultour(d) a1400 Legends of the Saints xxiv. 294.
Me poure pylgriame, I pray thé, here(e) c1460 Wisdom of Solomon (S.T.S.) 473.
Deill thi met to the trawelouris and pilgremys(f) c1610 Jok Uplandis Newis 9 b.
Now they are going in the court lyk poor pilgromesb. (1) a1400 Legends of the Saints xxvii. 1218.
Because that he As pilgerame thocht at Rome to be c1420 Wynt. ii. 1672.
A port … Quhare that pylgrymys mais entre That to Jerusalem walde fayre 14.. Acts I. 11/2.
Of the kyngis pece to pilgrymis and othiris 1456 Hay I. 238/23.
All pilgrymes suld be asseurit of all men of were … sen thai ar in the papis protectioun 1502 Treasurer's Accounts II. 155.
To pilgrymes that com fra the Steil a1538 Abell 71 b.
And in deid of pennance pilgrame sche slew him 1549 Complaynte of Scotland 11/2. 1560 Rolland Seven Sages 3466.
Pilgrim I will be And markis me heir vnto the halie land a1568 Scott i. 85.
Pilgrimes and palmaris past with thame betuene Sanct Blais Sanct Boit c1590 J. Stewart 205 § 23.(b) c1420 Wynt. vi. 1894 (C) (see Pilgrin n.).
Pilgrayme(c) 1562-3 Winȝet II. 16 marg.
Be the name of a pilgrum he first intitulit this buke(2) 1562 Inv. Q. Mary 56.
Ane pilgreimmes discheattrib. c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace i. 277.
His modyr graithit hir in pilgrame weid c1475 Ib. ix. 1529. a1508 Kennedy Pass. Christ 1510.
To thaim Jhesus apperit in the way In pilgram weid 1651 Rutherford Lett. (1891) 666.
Christ's pilgrim weeds
c. fig. A pilgrim on the ‘journey of life’, cf. Pilgrimag(e n. b. —a1500 Henr. Fab. 1112 (Ch.).
Men of gude conditioun As pilgrymes walkand in this wildernes c1500-c1512 Dunb. lxxiii. 9.
Walk furth pilgrame quhill thow hes dayis lycht c1552 Lynd. Mon. 5076.
