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Suffrages is still widely used among catholic historians, but I'm not sure
it has quite the same meaning as seelgerat. Megan
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> > Is "suffrages" too general? It might work in some contexts, no?
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>i've never seen the term before.
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>the OED styles it "archaic", with a real last instance of use in 1885.
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>Use at Own Risk, i'd say.
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>in any event, it refers to the *prayers*, not the gift given to buy them, the
>"Seelgerät".
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> 1. collect. pl. and sing. Prayers, esp. intercessory prayers, intercessions.
>arch.
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> c1380 WYCLIF Wks. (1880) 303 In alle ise wordis ben feyned of gostliche
>suffrage wi-oute grounde. 1432-50 tr. Higden (Rolls) I. 431 Vn til thei aske
>the suffrage and helpe of Seynte Wenefride. c1450 Godstow Reg. 182 In massys,
>in matyns, in oer owrys, suffrages, almys, fastynges. 1513 BRADSHAW St.
>Werburge I. 3259 Also by her merite, suffrage and peticion Euery humble
>creature had helpe and succour. 1553 BECON Reliques of Rome (1563) 197* The
>Suffrages and sacrifices of the Masse. 1602 WARNER Alb. Eng. XIII. lxxvii, Not
>tedious suffrages they ask't, nor Sacrifices strate. 1660 WOOD Life (O.H.S.)
>I. 345 The chappell being onlie for privat or secret suffrages. 1681 BURNET
>Hist. Ref. II. I. 64 That the Sacrifice might bring to them a greater
>Indulgence, being offered up by the Suffrages of the Saint. 1865 KINGSLEY
>Herew. i, Of what use to you then the suffrages of the saints? 1904 M. HEWLETT
>Queen's Quair I. viii. 110 The Queen was at prayers which is more than can be
>said for the priest who should have lifted up her suffrages.
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> b. spec. Prayers for the souls of the departed: esp. in phr. to do
>suffrage. arch.
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> c1440 Alphabet of Tales 58 He..garte do message & oders prayers & suffrage
>of halie kurk for hym. c1450 Godstow Reg. 206 So at ey scholde haue in mynde
>the sowlys Afore in alle here prayeris suffrages & benefettes for euer. 1483
>CAXTON Gold. Leg. 348/2 That generalle Suffrages temporal myght be done for
>them. 1521 Extr. Burgh Recs. Stirling 14 Oct. (1887) 13 Twa markis of obit
>silver..for sufferagh to be doun for the saullis of wmquhill Allexander lord
>Elphinstoun and Sir Johen Elphinstoun, his fader. c1554 in 10th Rep. Hist.
>MSS. Comm. App. I. 87 To do suffrage for the sawll of the deid. 1584 R. SCOT
>Discov. Witchcr. XV. xxii. 434 Whose soule art thou?.. Wantest thou any
>suffrages, masses, or almes? 1596 R. H. tr. Lavaterus' Ghostes & Spir. 107
>Whether he require any aide by prayers and suffrages? 1848 K. H. DIGBY Broad
>Stone Hon. III. Morus 280 Their prayers and suffrages for the dead.
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> c. phr. suffrages of prayers; cf. med.L. orationis suffragium, OF.
>suffrages d'oroisons. Obs.
> The original sense was prob. ‘help given by (intercessory) prayer’: cf.
>sense 2.
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> 1447 in Anstey Epist. Acad. Oxon. (O.H.S.) I. 261 We commend us unto owr
>goode lordschipe wt the gostly suffrages of oure prayers. c1613 in Cath. Rec.
>Soc. Publ. (1914) XIV. 34 We humbly request the Suffrages of your Devout
>Prayers of Charity.
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> d. pl. Liturgical intercessory petitions; esp. in the Book of Common
>Prayer, (a) the intercessory petitions pronounced by the priest in the
>Litany (also sing., any one of these); (b) a series of petitions pronounced
>by the priest with the answers of the people, a set of versicles and
>responses.
> Also by some writers (see quots. 1657, 1732, 1796) used for a responsive
>petition (or response to a versicle, etc.).
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> 1532 ELYOT Let. in Gov. (1880) I. p. lxxix, [In Germany] the Preest [at
>mass] in vestmentes after oure manner singith everi thing in Latine as we use,
>omitting suffrages. 1548-9 (Mar.) Bk. Com. Prayer, Evensong, Then the
>suffrages before assigned at Matins. Ibid., Litany, The Letany and Suffrages.
>1587 HARRISON England II. i. 138/1 in Holinshed, After morning praier also we
>haue the letanie and suffrages. 1657 SPARROW Bk. Com. Prayer 95 These Forms of
>prayers, (where the peoples devotion is so often excited..by continual
>Suffrages, such as Good Lord deliver us; We beseech thee to hear us good
>Lord,) were called , earnest or intense Petitions. 1662 Bk. Com. Prayer, Form
>of Prayer 5 Nov., In the Suffrages after the Creed, these shall be inserted
>and used for the King. 1697 J. LEWIS Mem. Dk. Glocester (1789) 78 He..would
>answer very properly at prayers, in the Suffrages and different parts of the
>Liturgy. 1714 Order in Council 1 Aug. in Lond. Gaz. No. 5247/3 In the
>Suffrages next after the Creed, instead of Queen read King. 1732 NEAL Hist.
>Purit. I. 54 They compiled a Litany consisting of many short petitions
>interrupted by Suffrages. 1796 PEGGE Anonym. (1809) 145 Tu autem..is the
>beginning of the suffrage, which was supposed to follow the reading of the
>Scripture, which the reading scholar was to continue, by saying, Miserere mei,
>Domine. 1855 PROCTER Bk. Com. Prayer 255 After the suffrage for the Church,
>those for the ecclesiastical orders usually come first. 1882-3 Schaff's
>Encycl. Relig. Knowl. II. 1327 A brief litany, in which the people continually
>respond to the various suffrages, ‘Lord, have mercy upon us’. 1885 Pall
>Mall Gaz. 23 May 7/2 Installation of the Dean of Gloucester... The Bishop then
>said some suffrages. 1885 DIXON Hist. Ch. Eng. III. 496 The Suffrages which
>the clerks were wont to sing in the time of the communion [viz. the Agnus Dei,
>etc.].
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> transf. 1701 NORRIS Ideal World I. ii. 35 This great and solemn suffrage of
>the adorable Trinity, Let us make man.
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