Crossword-Solution: CIERGE 6 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

The wives of the Emirs and Wazirs and Chamberlains and Courtiers all stood in double line, each holding a massy cierge ready lighted; all wore thin face-veils and the two rows right and left extended from the bride's throne [FN#408] to the head of the hall adjoining the chamber whence she was to come forth.

Home (entranced, like the Nistinares); the well observed and timed Miracle du Cierge at Lourdes--Bernadette being in an ecstatic condition; the Biblical story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the fiery furnace; the researches of Iamblichus; the case of Madame Shchapoff, carefully reported, {175} and other examples.

Our Saxon glossaries afford no equivalent term, but it may perhaps exhibit a Teutonic origin in the German _kerze_, a light or candle, or even in the French _cierge_, from _cereus_, because the original materials were of wax.

Gauthier de Coinsy, one of the most celebrated _cantadours_ of the thirteenth century, among other poems has left one entitled _Du cierge que Notre Dame de Roc Amadour envoya sur la vièle du ménestrel qui vièlait et chantait devant sy image_, relating how our benign Lady accorded one of these votive candles to a pious minstrel as he was singing her praises: Pierre de Sygeland was in the habit of entering every church he passed to offer a prayer and sing a song of praise to the sound of his viol.

Itiels p_re_chours de leur semblant Sont sicom_m_e cierge clier ardant, 21710 Qui don_n_e as autres sa lumere, Ou sicom_m_e clocque en halt son_n_ant; L’un vait soy mesmes desguasta_n_t, Et l’autre hurte sa costiere: Ensi p_re_chour de sa man_er_e, Ou soit ce prestre ou moigne ou frere, Grant bien apporte a l’escoultant Et a soy mesmes g_ra_nt misere, Qant le contraire fait derere De ce q’il nous p_re_che au devant.