Ther wer crystend, as I find,
More than fourty thousynd.
Kyrkes they made off Crystene lawe,
And her (their) Mawmettes lete down drawe."
L. 5829-44.
In Wiclif's translation of the New Testament also, the word occurs in the same sense: mawmetis, idolis, and false goddis being used indifferently where idola or simulacra are employed in the Latin Vulgate: thus—
"Fle ghe fro worschipyng of mawmetis."
1 Cor. x. 14.
"My litel sones kepe ye you fro mawmetis."
1 John v. 21.