Obs.

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  1.  = WAFER sb. 1.

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1585.  Higins, Junius’ Nomencl., 84/2. Crustulum,… a wafer cake.

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1593.  George a Greene (1599), D 1. You shall haue wafer cakes your fill.

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  b.  fig. as a type of fragility.

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1599.  Shaks., Hen. V., II. iii. 53. Trust none: for Oathes are Strawes, mens faiths are Wafer-Cakes.

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  2.  = WAFER sb. 2. Chiefly in hostile use.

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c. 1560.  trans. Latimer, in Strype, Eccl. Mem. (1721), III. II. 90. The Papistes … wolde conteyne the natural Body which Christe had (Synne excepted) ageynst all Truthe, into a Wafer Cake.

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1584.  in Foley, Rec. Eng. Prov. S. J. (1880), VI. 215. A super-altar, a pyx, a box of wafer cakes.

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1594.  Hooker, Eccl. Pol., IV. vi. § 1. The vse of wafer-cakes, the custome of godfathers & godmothers in baptisme, are things not commanded nor forbidden in the scripture.

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1630.  R. Johnson, Kingd. & Commw., 476. Hee must … conge to the ground with his head, as Priests doe to their Wafer-cakes.

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