An archaic or dialectal variant term, possibly referring to antimony or a related substance, or a variant form of a ceremony or formal rite.
Unclear origin; possibly related to 'antimony' or derived from Old French/Latin ecclesiastical terminology. The word appears rarely in historical texts with inconsistent meanings.
This extremely rare word appears in only a handful of historical documents, making it a ghost word that linguists love—it might be a transcription error that became 'official' simply by being printed.
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