There was an holy chappell edifyde.
Spenser, Fairy Queen, i. 1, 34.
Egregious. This has generally now an uncomplimentary subaudition, which it was very far from having of old.
Egregious viceroys of these eastern parts!
Marlowe, Tamburlaine the Great, part i. act i. sc. 1.
It may be denied that bishops were our first reformers, for Wickliffe was before them, and his egregious labours are not to be neglected.—Milton, Animadversions upon the Remonstrants’ Defence.
Elder. The German ‘eltern’ still signifies parents; as ‘elders’ did once with us, though now the word has quite let this meaning go.
And hise disciplis axiden hym, Maistir, what synnede, this man or hise eldris, that he schulde be borun blynd?—John ix. 2. Wiclif.
And his elders went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of Easter.—Luke ii. 41. Coverdale.
Disobedient to their elders [γονεῦσιν ἀπειθεῖς].—Rom. i. 30. Coverdale.