maundingt

[Verbal n. of maund3, v.] Begging. Being borne and bred vpin the trade of maunding , nipping, and foisting for the space of tenne years. Rowlands, History of Rogues, quoted in Ribton-Turner's maundril (mân'dril), n. [Also maundrel. Cf. In coal- mining, a pick with two [Vagrants Vagrancy, p. 585. mandrel.] prongs. maundy (mân'di), n. [Farly mod. E. also maund ye, mawndy, mandie, unto you, that ye love one another" (John xiii. 34), words sung as an anthem at the ceremony of feet-washing, and also as referring to the injunction as to this ceremony (John xiii. 14-15), 14-18 and to the command to celebrate the sacrament, "This do."] 1. A commandment. Piers Plowman.-21. The sacrament of the Lord's supper. Lord, where wolte thou kepe thi maunde ? Coventry Mysteries, p. 259. (Encyc. Dict.) The Thorsday byfore there he made his maundee , Sittyng atte sopere he seide thise wordes. Piers Plowman (B), xvi. 140. 3. The ceremony of washing the feet of poor persons or inferiors, performed as a religious rite on Maundy Thursday in commemoration of Christ's washing the disciples' feet at the last supper. It consists in the washing of the feet of a number of men, generally twelve (in the Western Church usually paupers or poor priests), by a priest, prelate, or sovereign. The custom, of very early origin, is obsolete in the Anglican Church, but is still observed in the Greek Church and in the Roman Catholic Church. See lavipedium, ре dilavium. My wife had been to-day at White Hall to the Maundy, it being Maundy Thursday; but the King did not wash the poor people's feet himself, but the Bishop of London did it for him. Pepys, Diary, III. 100. Christ's last supper, and also both in the Greek and the Western Church his washing of the disciples' feet upon that day. (See def. 3.) It has been the custom in both the Greek and the Western Church since the fifth or sixth century to consecrate the chrism and holy oils on Maundy Thursday. In England the day is observed, in addition to other special services, by a distribution from the sovereign of clothing and money among the poor. (See maundy money.) In the Greek Church Maundy Thursday is called the Great Thursday or the Great and Holy Thurs day. Also called Mandate Thursday, Chare Thursday, Sheer Thursday, Coæna Domini, and, improperly, Holy maunna (mänä). [ Thursday. See Tenebræ . As lang as Siller 's current, Deacon, folk maunna look ower nicely at what King's head 's on 't. Scott, Guy Manner ing, xxxii.