A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2000 (DOST Vol. VIII).
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Sacramental(e, adj. [Late ME (c1400) and e.m.E. sacramental(e, F. sacramental, -el (late 14th c. in Larousse), eccles. L. sacrāmentālis.] Pertaining to or of the nature of a sacrament, sacramentary. —c1490 Irland Asl. MS 14/19.
The wordis and forme sacramentale that the prest says [sc. in the sacrament of penance] Id. Mir. MS fol. 233a.
Thire wourdis sacramentale c1588 Cath. Tr. 251/7.
We confes sacramental confession … vith the twa uther pairtis of the sacrament of pennance
