Origin and history of Lord's

"sacrament of the Lord's Supper, the Communion," mid-14c., from Old French eucariste, from Late Latin eucharistia, from Greek...eukharistia "thanksgiving, gratitude," later "the Lord's Supper," from eukharistos "grateful," from eu "well" (see eu-)...

Agape, in plural, was used by early Christians for their "love feast," a communal meal held in connection with the Lord's...growth of abuses led to the prohibition of them in church buildings, and in the fourth century to their separation from the Lord's...

In Middle English and Old English the same compound meant "land immediately around the mansion of an estate, land in the lord's...

"the next world, the hereafter" (1785), originally slang, is from the Lord's Prayer, where it is an archaic simple present...

reference to grease or oil smeared on for medicinal purposes; its use in the Coverdale Bible in reference to Christ (as in The Lord's...

In European Christian cultures outside Germanic often with a name meaning "the Lord's Day" (Latin Dominica)....

In Middle English used as a relative pronoun where Modern English would use who, as still in the Lord's Prayer....

also God; Old English god "supreme being, deity; the Christian God; image of a god; godlike person," from Proto-Germanic *guthan (source also of Old Saxon, Old Frisian, Dutch god, Old High German got, German Gott, Old Norse guð, Gothic guþ), which is of uncertain origin; perhaps

"military expedition under the banner of the cross," 1706, a respelling or replacement of croisade (1570s), from French croisade (16c.), Spanish cruzada, both from Medieval Latin cruciata, past participle of cruciare "to mark with a cross," from Latin crux (genitive crucis) "cros

1530s, "statement which conceals a hidden meaning or known thing under obscure words or forms," earlier enigmate (mid-15c.), from Latin aenigma "riddle," from Greek ainigma (plural ainigmata) "a dark saying, riddle," from ainissesthai "speak obscurely, speak in riddles," from ain