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English
Proper noun
Christmasse
- Obsolete spelling of Christmas.
(date written), “
A Caroll Bringyng in the Bores Heed”, in
, London:
Wynkyn de Worde, published
1521,
→OCLC; republished in
Joseph Ames,
Typographical Antiquities: Being a Historical Account of Printing in England: , London:
W
Faden, and sold by J. Robinson,
,
1749,
→OCLC,
page 96, column 2:
Be gladde, lordes, bothe more and lasse, / For this hath ordeyned our stewarde / To chere you all this christmasse / The bores heed with mustarde.]
1569, Richard Grafton, “Henry the Eyght”, in A Chronicle at Large and Meere History of the Affayres of Englande , volume II, London: Henry Denham, , for Richarde Tottle and Humffrey Toye, →OCLC, pages 1140–1141:In this Winter was great death in London, wherefore the Terme was adiorned, and the king for to eſchue the plague, kept his Chriſtmaſſe at Eltham with a ſmall number, for no man might come thether, but ſuch as were appoynted by name: this Chriſtmas in the kings houſe, was called the ſtill Chriſtmaſſe.
1599 (first performance; published 1600), Thomas Dekker, “The Shomakers Holiday. Or The Gentle Craft. . To All Good Fellowes, Professors of the Gentle Craft; of what Degree Soeuer.”, in The Dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker , volume I, London: John Pearson , published 1873, →OCLC, page 3:Kinde Gentlemen, and honeſt Companions, I preſent you here with a merrie conceited Comedie, called the Shoomakers Holyday, acted by my Lorde Admiralls Players this preſent Chriſtmaſſe, before the Queenes moſt excellent Maieſtie.
1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, , London: W Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC, page 191:Hereupon a Peace vvas concluded, vvhich vvas publiſhed a little before Chriſtmaſſe, in the Fourteenth yeare of the Kings Raigne, to continue for both the Kings liues, and the ouer-liuer of them, and a yeare after.
1645, The Arraignment, Conviction and Imprisonment of Christmas on S. Thomas Day last, , Simon Minc’d Pye, ; republished as John Ashton, “The Arraignment, etc., of Christmas”, in A righte Merrie Christmasse!!! The Story of Christ-tide, London: the Leadenhall Press, Ltd., ; Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, , :“Lady—Honest Crier, I know thou knewest old Father Christmas; I am sent to thee from an honest schollar of Oxford (that hath given me many a hug and kisse in Christmasse time when we have been merry) to cry Christmas, for they hear that he is gone from hence, and that we have lost the poor old man; you know what marks he hath, and how to cry him.
1993, “10-13. Kenosha”, in Wisconsin Annual Events, page 38:YE OLDE ENGLISHE CHRISTMASSE FEASTE: Nine course authentic Renaissance festival banquet.
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