[ALL- E 1 + hallows pl. of hallow, OE. hálʓa, a holy (man), a saint. The nom. pl. hálʓan passed through the forms halwen, halowen, halowe, halowes. The gen. pl. hálʓena with -tide, -day, became halwene, halwen, halowen, hallowen, hallown, hallon, hollan, holland.]
1. All saints, the saints (in heaven) collectively. (Often as dedication of a church.)
c. 1000. Ælfric, Gram., ix. § 18. 43. November: se mónað ongynð on ealra hálʓena mæssedæʓ.
c. 1375. Layfolk’s Mass Bk., 8. To God full of myght, And to his modir mayden bryght, And to alle halouse here.
1413. Lydg., Pylgr. Sowle, V. vi. (1859), 78. In the feste of al halowen, euery saynt … taketh his owne place.
c. 1450. Knt. de la Tour, 106. The pistelle upon the feest of alhalwynne.
1494. Fabyan, VII. ccxx. 242. Vsed to swere by Alhalowes, that he had nat one peny.
1528. More, Heresyes, II. Wks. 1557, 196/1. Ye conclude ye thinge displeasant to god and to all hallowes.
1552. Lyndesay, Complaynt, 190. I hald thareto, man, be alhallow.
1565. Calfhill, Answ. Treat. Crosse (1846), 67. The devout fathers … did consecrate a church in the same place unto All-Hallous.
1646. Ordin. Lords & Comm., 9. Alhallowes in Bread Street.
2. = All hallows’ day, or All-hallowmas. arch.
1503. Plumpton Corr., 183. If he come againe afor alhallowes.
1647. Crashaw, Poems, 21. How fit our well-rank’d Feasts do follow, All mischief comes after All-Hallow.
3. All hallows’ day: All Saints’ day; the first of November. arch.
1483. Caxton, G. de la Tour, G vij. Thepystle of al hallowen day.
1493. Festivall (W. de Worde, 1515), 147 b. Good frendes suche a daye ye shall haue all halowen daye.
1552. Chron. Grey Friars, 76. On alhallon day began the boke of the new servis of bred and wyne in Powlles. Item after allhollan day was no more communyon but on the sondayes.
4. All hallow eve: the eve of All Saints. (See also HALLOW E’EN.) arch.
1556. Chron. Grey Friars, 17. Thys yere the towne of Depe was tane … on Halhalon evyn.
1603. Shaks., Meas. for M., II. i. 130. Clo. Was ’t not at Hallowmas, master Froth? Fro. Allhallond-Eue.
1698. Stow, Surv. (ed. Strype, 1754), I. I. xxix. 304/1. These Lords (of misrule) beginning their rule at Alholland Eve.
5. Allhallowmass: the feast of All Saints. arch.
1083. O. E. Chron. (Laud MS.). Æfter ealra halʓena mæsse dæʓ.
c. 1325. Cœur de Lion, 5878. And wente home at Alhalewemeise.
c. 1330. R. Brunne, Chron., 145. Þe moneth of Nouembre, after Alhalwemesse.
c. 1425. Wyntoun, Cron., VIII. xiii. 177. Fra þe Alhalowmes … til yhule he bydand wes.
1598. Shaks., Merry W., I. i. 211. Upon Alhallowmas last, a fortnight afore Michaelmas.
1725. H. Bourne, Antiq. Vulg., xix. Lighted tapers … were then wont to cease till the next All-hallow-mass.
6. Allhallowtide: the season of All Saints. arch.
1548. Chron. Grey Friars, 57. This yere before Alhallontyd was sett up the howse for the markyt folke in Newgate market for to waye melle in.
1549. Dk. Somerset, in Strype, Eccl. Mem., VI. 499. Parliament cannot be assembled before Allhallowntide.
1578. R. Scot, Hoppe Garden, 17. Cut your Poales betweene All hallowentyde and Christmas.
1592. Mascall, Plant. & Graff., 16. Betwixt Alhallowtide & Christmas.
1653. Walton, Angler, 222. About All-hollantide, when you see men ploughing up heath-ground.
1679. Burnet, Hist. Ref., 290. The final payment being to be at allhallontide.
1743. Lond. & Country Brewer, III. (ed. 2), 171. From Michaelmas to Alhollantide, their Well-Water has such an earthy ill Quality.
7. All-hallown Summer: a season of fine weather in the late autumn; also fig. brightness or beauty lingering or reappearing in old age. Apparently Obs., but worthy of revival, as much superior to its equivalents, St. Martin’s Summer (from French), and the Indian Summer of America.
1596. Shaks., 1 Hen. IV., I. ii. 178. Farwell the latter Spring! Farwell, Alhollown Summer!
