Kirk v.

Now Sc. [f. KIRK sb.]

  1.  trans. = CHURCH v. 1.

c. 1425.  Wyntoun, Cron., V. xii. 4904. In honoure off that madyn clere That wes kyrkkyd as that day.

c. 1470.  [see CHURCH v. 1 b].

1818.  Scott, Hrt. Midl., xliii. I’m to be married the morn, and kirkit on Sunday.

1825.  Jamieson, A bride is said to be kirkit, the first time she goes to church after she has been married; on which occasion she is usually attended by some of the marriage company…. A family is also said to be kirkit, the first time they go to church after there has been a funeral in it.

1891.  Barrie, Little Minister, xliv. All he had to do was to re-marry him, and kirk him.

  † 2.  To lay up or deposit in a church. (Cf. CHURCH v. 2.) Obs.

1606.  Birnie, Kirk-Buriall, xi. The wel deseruing by the purse,… was in vse to be Kirked vp in burial.

  3.  To send or drive (the ball) to the church, as a goal.

1834.  T. Brown, in Proc. Berw. Nat. Club, I. No. 2. 46. The person who succeeded in kirking or in milling—such are the phrases—the … golden ball.

  Hence Kirking vbl. sb. (also attrib.).

c. 1470.  Henry, Wallace, XI. 352. It was bot till a kyrkyn fest.

1818.  Edinb. Mag., Nov., 414. On Sunday comes the kirking. The bride and bridegroom, attended by their office-bearers,… walk to the kirk.

Mod. Sc. saying, ‘A bride is a bride fra’ her crying to her kirking’ (i.e., from the proclamation of banns to her first attendance at church).