a. Obs. Forms: 1 ʓehal, 3 ihal, 3–4 ihol, 4 yhol, 4–5 yhole. [OE. ʓehál: see Y- 3 b and WHOLE a.] Whole, sound.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Hom., II. 154. Ða ʓemette he þæt fæt … swa ʓehal þæt ðær nan cinu on næs ʓesewen.
c. 1000. Sax. Leechd., I. 354. Wyrc swa hit man ʓehal forswelʓan mæʓe.
c. 1205. Lay., 821. Al ihal & al isund.
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 80. Hope halt þe heorte i hol.
1340. Ayenb., 228. Huo þet is yhol of bodie and uoul ine herte is ase þe berieles yhuited.
c. 1430. Two Cookery-bks., 22. Þen take figys, an kerue hem a-to, or Roysonys y-hole.
Hence † Yholliche, wholly; † Yholnesse, † Yholschipe, wholeness.
a. 1240. Ureisin, in O. E. Hom., I. 203. Moder of swich sune wið iholschipe of meiden.
c. 1315. Shoreham, III. 223. Þarefore do þe al y-holliche Þat day [sc. mass-day] to holy þynge.
1340. Ayenb., 127. Þe loue of þe herte huerby he him yefþ y-holliche and wyþoute corrupcion to þet ha loueþ. Ibid., 230. Yholnesse and clennesse of bodye þet is to zigge þet þet body by y-hol wyþoute uelþe of lecherie.
a. 1400. in Eng. Gilds (1870), 362. Ȝif þt þe axkere bryngeþ skore oþer wryt, and aske þe berynge y-holecheche [sic].
