hosanna

hosanna [LL < Heb.] , hosanna, praise. laus sit in excelsis tibi, Christe, et ossana [MS: osanna] per aevum Wulf. Swith. II 258; osanna, i. salva obsecro Bacon CSPhil. 446; 1293 pro sospitate vestra ‥ osanna pium cantabimus in excelsis DCCant. Register/Q f. 21; Scotorum banna surgunt, clamemus osanna; / Scotos subsanna, Deus, ut clamemus osanna (Nevill’s Cross) Pol. Poems I 42.