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Thursday|ˈθɜːzdeɪ, -dɪ|
Forms: α. 1 Ðunresdæᵹ, þunres dæi, þur(r)es-, þursdæᵹ, 2 ðursdai, (3 Thurday), 3–4 þures-, 4 (thrusdai), 4–7 Thursdaye, 5 Thurys-, 6 (thursdae), Thurss-, Thurse-; 3– Thursday. β. 3–4 þores-, 3–5 þ-, thoris-, Thorsday, 4 þorus-, Thoursday; Sc. 6 Thuirs-, 7 Thuris-. γ. Sc. 6 Furis-, 6–9 Fuirs-, 8 Fursday.
[The α forms represent OE. Þunresdæᵹ, ‘day of Thunor or Thor’, perh. in some cases affected by ON. The β forms are mainly from ON. Þórsdagr, the long ó of which would give ME. ō and ou (uː), and mod.Sc. ui |øː|. The γ Sc. forms show the interchange of th and f, referred to under th (6). So Sw., Da. Tors-dag, MDu., Du. Donderdag, OHG. Donares-tac, MHG. Donrestac, Ger. Donnerstag, orig. rendering late L. dies Jovis, It. Giovedì, F. Jeudi. Cf. Thunderday.]
1. The fifth day of the week.
α, β [c1000ælfric Hom. II. 242 On ðam fiftan dæᵹe ðe ᵹe Ðunres hatað. c1000Sax. Leechd. II. 346 Gang on þunres æfen þonne sunne on retle sie.] c1000Ags. Gosp. John v. 30 Ðys sceal on þurs-dæᵹ on þære oðre lencten wucan. Ibid. vii. 40 rubric, Ðys god-spel sceal on þures dæᵹ on þære fiftan wucan innen lenctene. c1205Lay. 13929 Þa Þunre heo ȝiuen þunres dæi [c 1275 þorisdai]. 1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 11210 Þe verste þorsdai in lente. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xvi. 140 Þe þorsday [v. rr. thoresday, þorusday, þursday] byfore þere he made his maundee. 1426–7Rec. St. Mary at Hill 65 Þe thorisday in þe Whitson weke. 1591H. Smith Lord's Supper ii. (1611) 91 A schollers thursday, which he loves better then all the daies in the weeke, only because it is his play-day. 1637–50Row Hist. Kirk (Wodrow Soc.) 515 To come in to Aberdeen on Thurisday thereafter. 1774tr. Helvetius' Child of Nat. I. 235 Thursday next, I shall send for the answer. 1899Mrs. H. Fraser in Book Lover Apr. 3/1, I think I was born under the star of long journeys, a ‘Thursday bairn that has far to go’.
γ1566Sc. Acts Jas. V, 1540, 141 b, Sonday, monounday, and furisday. 1569Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 673 Upoun fuirsday nix to cum. 1596in Analecta Scotica II. 13 Ther ansuer..suld haue bein giuen in the last Furisday. 1791A. Wilson Laurel Disputed Poet. Wks. (1846) 124 On this same Fursday night. 1861Ramsay Remin. Ser. ii. 99 Mrs. So-and-so's funeral would be on Fuirsday. 1905[Still used in some parts of Scotland: see Wright Eng. Dial. Gram. 648].
2. With defining words.
Bounds Thursday, Ascension Day, on which parish boundaries are traced (see beat v.1 41). Carnival Thursday, Thursday before Quinquagesima (see note s.v. carnival 1). Great Thursday, also Great and Holy Thursday (in the Greek Church), Green Thursday, the Thursday before Good Friday, Maundy Thursday. See also 3, and Maundy Thursday, Sheer Thursday.
1601–2in Archpriest Controv. (Camden) II. 41 They..arrived there upon madd thursday, otherwise called Carnivall thursday: wch is the thursday imediately before Shrove sonday.
3. Holy Thursday, a name that has been applied to various Thursdays.
a. Thursday in Rogation Week, Ascension Day. Also † Hallow Thursday.
[a901Laws ælfred c. 5 §5 Se ðe stalað on Sunnanniht, oððe on Gêhhol, oððe on Eastron, oððe on þone halᵹan þunresdæᵹ.] c1290S. Eng. Leg. I. 363/48 Men fastez..a-seint Marcus dai..And þreo dawes a-ȝein halewe-þoresday. c1430Deuelis Perlament 459 in Hymns Virg. 55 Oure lord,..In erþe he was..Til hooly þursday comen were Þat he stiȝ to heuene. c1489Caxton Sonnes of Aymon ii. 59 The feste of Penthecoste after the holy thursdaye. 1530Palsgr. 232/1 Holythursday, le jour de lassention. 1685in Verney Mem. 28 May (1899) IV. 348 The House [of Commons] sitts not this day being Holy Thursday. 1869Chambers' Bk. Days 5 May I. 595/1 Our..landlady at Matlock reminded us that on the following day, being Holy Thursday, or Ascension Day, there would take place the..ancient..custom of dressing the wells of Tissington with flowers. 1891[see b].
b. The Thursday immediately preceding Easter; Maundy Thursday, Sheer Thursday.
In OE. and in Caxton prob. not a specific name; in 17th c. and later quots., after continental usage.
[c1000ælfric Saints' Lives xxiii. B. 621 To þam halᵹan þurres-dæᵹe ær þam drihten-lican easter-dæᵹe. 1483Caxton G. de la Tour cxxiii, Vpon the Holy Thursday in the Passion weke.] 1645Evelyn Diary 11 Apr., On Holy Thursday the Pope said masse. 1867M. E. Herbert Cradle L. iii. 109 On Holy Thursday, the day of the institution of the Holy Eucharist. 1885Cath. Dict. 404/2 Mediæval writers connect the procession with the Blessed Sacrament on Holy Thursday with our Lord's journey to the Mount of Olives after the Last Supper. 1891Ch. Q. Rev. Jan. 449 note, By Holy Thursday an Englishman has hitherto always understood one day in the year, that is, Ascension Day... Some have nowadays..begun to use the term Holy Thursday as a name for the Thursday before Easter, which in old English is called Sherethursday or Maundy Thursday. This..is a mere borrowing from the Romance tongues, and is a cause of much confusion.
†c. The Thursday after Trinity Sunday; Corpus Christi day. Obs. (? error.)
1789T. Anburey Trav. Amer. (1791) I. 184 Holy Thursday, which they term La Fête Dieu. |