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Definition of Rood-tree
1. Noun. Representation of the cross on which Jesus died.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rood-tree
Literary usage of Rood-tree
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of the Writings in Middle English, 1050-1400 by John Edwin Wells (1916)
"The Rood- Tree Group is represented by the History of the Rood-Tree in MS. ...
As the Rood-Tree and Legend groups have a number of features in common, ..."
2. Speculum Gy de Warewyke: an English poem by Georgiana Lea Morrill (1898)
"The traditions of " bush on fire," conspicuous in all stories of the rood-tree
from the days of Cynewulf and Elene to the 14th century, ..."
3. Legends of the holy rood: Symbols of the passion and cross-poems. In Old by Richard Morris (1871)
"The Rood'tree discovered by the Queen of Sheba. Here it remained until the Queen
of Sheba, on her visit to Solomon, discovered it, and paid great honour to ..."
4. Legends of the holy rood: Symbols of the passion and cross-poems. In Old by Richard Morris (1871)
"The rood-tree discovered by the Queen of Sheba. Here it remained until the Queen
of Sheba, on her visit to Solomon, discovered it, and paid great honour to ..."
5. The squyr of lowe degre: a Middle English metrical romance by William Edward Mead (1904)
"In the Latin Judas Story, printed by Napier as App. IlI of The History of the
Holy Rood- tree, p. 68, is an expansion of the same material: Mirabiliter ..."
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