Obs. [a. F. cène the Last Supper, the Communion:—L. cēna mid-day or afternoon meal, dinner, supper.]
The Last Supper; also = Cene Thursday, the day on which the Last Supper was eaten, Maundy Thursday.
c. 1320. R. Brunne, Medit., 1111. Certys, sayd petyr, þys nyȝt at þe cene.
1382. Wyclif, Rev., Prol. That in the cene on his brest he shulde lyn.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., IX. xxx. (1495), 364. Lente lastyth to the Cene of our lord that is Shere thursdaye.
1483. Caxton, Gold. Leg., 329/4. He had be wasshen of the kynges honde on Cenethursdaye. Ibid. (1491), Vitas Patr. (W. de W., 1495), I. xlii. 70 b/1. The daye of the Cene comen … Zozimas … tooke a chalys.
