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undern-time Obs. exc. dial. and arch.
Also 4–6 vnder-, 5 vndyrtime.
[OE. underntíma: see undern n. and time n.]
= prec.
αc1000in Bouterwek Cædmon (1854) p. ccxiv, On undern⁓timan Crist wæs þurh þara Iudea dom to deaþe fordemed. c1200Ormin 19458 An daȝȝ att unnderrn time I fir þeȝȝ sæȝhenn Godess Gast. c1250Gen. & Ex. 2269 It was vndren time or more, Om cam ðat riche louerd ðore. a1300Cursor M. 25538 Suet iesu, at vndrin time [c 1375 vnder-time]..Sufferd..Dintes sare and smert. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VII. 421 In þat book he radde priveliche in þe underne tymes [L. meridianis horis].
1853Rock Ch. of Fathers III. x. 473 St. Beda died a little after undern-time or tierce-song hour. 1887Suppl. Jamieson s.v. Andrum, The afternoon or early evening repast;..called also..anterin-time.
βc1375[see a 1300 above]. a1450Le Morte Arth. 2807 Hys strength shulld wex in suche a space, From the vndyr⁓tyme tylle none. 1495Trevisa's Barth. De P.R. xviii. xxiv. 783 Whan gete ben meuyd after the vnder tyme they drynke the more water. 1590Spenser F.Q. iii. vii. 13 He comming home at vndertime, there found The fairest creature, that he euer saw. |