Obs. [f. SOUL sb. 18 + HEAL sb. Cf. WFris. sieleheil, Flem. zieleheil, G. seelenheil, † seelheil.] = next. a. With possessive pronoun.
[c. 825. in O. E. Texts, 443. Fore uncerra saula hela & uncerra bearna.]
a. 1300. Cursor M., 25168. For vr praier es vnlele And askes gains vr saul hele.
1362. Langl., P. Pl., A. VI. 22. I haue … souht goode seyntes for my soule hele.
c. 1375. Sc. Leg. Saints, xxxiii. (George), 378. For dout of dede, ful fele reneyt god & þare saule-hele.
1418. in Ellis, Orig. Lett., Ser. I. I. 4. Ȝe desire principaly vertuous lyvyng and ȝour sowle heele.
c. 1440. Alph. Tales, 146. I trow ye be in dispayr of my sawle heale.
1560. Rolland, Seven Sages, 74. Gif ȝe pleis ony thing for to deill, Into Almus, for my weill and Saull heill.
b. In general sense.
[a. 1225. Ancr. R., 182 (MS. C.). Þus is sicnesse saulene heale.]
13[?]. Minor Poems fr. Vernon MS., xxxvii. 355. Þou spekest of wraþþe in þi tale And seist hit is aȝeyn soule-hale.
c. 1375. Sc. Leg. Saints, xviii. (Egiptian), 323. Lowyt mot our lorde be þat purchesis þus saule-hele!
1390. Gower, Conf., I. 29. Adrian … preith the grete Charlemeine, For Cristes sake and Soule hele [etc.].
1429. Acts Privy Council, III. 331. If ony man wol oonly of devocion and for soule heele goo overe in þe said expedicion.
c. 1440. Jacob’s Well, 156. Ȝif men teche hem soule-hele, þei scornyn hem.
1550. Copland, Hye Way to Spyttel Ho., 284. Methynk it is a great soule-heale To help them.
