Lexicographical Neighbors of Lykewakes
Literary usage of Lykewakes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Urquhart and Glenmoriston: Olden Times in a Highland Parish by William Mackay (1893)
"Gaelic Liturgy.—The Gaelic Bible. —Gaelic Tunes.—The Sabbath iu Olden Times.—S^rt"
and Pleasures.—Sunday Christenings and Penny Weddings. — lykewakes. ..."
2. Old Church Life in Scotland: Lectures on Kirk-session and Presbytery Records by Andrew Edgar (1886)
"In Mauchline, as well as in Aberdeen, there were lykewakes held two hundred ...
And the Kirk- Session did not attempt to prohibit lykewakes, as the Act of ..."
3. The Spottiswoode Miscellany: A Collection of Original Papers and Tracts by James Maidment (1845)
"lykewakes.—May 6, 1631. ... being informed of great profanities that customary
are used at lykewakes by certain profane persons that purposely resort ..."
4. Memorialls of the Trubles in Scotland and in England: A.D. 1624-A.D. 1645 by John Spalding (1851)
"... of lykewakes, tolling and ringing of bellis, and other superstitious rites
... of any person to lykewakes ; but also inhibits all inhabitants to desyre ..."
5. The Book of Perth: An Illustration of the Moral and Ecclesiastical State of by John Parker Lawson (1847)
"lykewakes.—May G, 1631. ... being informed of great profanities that customary
are used at lykewakes by certain profane persons that purposely resort ..."
6. Recreations of an Antiquary in Perthshire History and Genealogy by Robert Scott Fittis (1881)
"In the town of Perth, at one time, lykewakes frequently caused peculiar annoyance
to many of the peaceable citizens, by reason that at the dead of night, ..."
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