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holy-day|ˈhəʊlɪdeɪ|
Forms: see holiday.
[OE. háliᵹ dæᵹ, two words, with the adj. subject to inflexion; ME. early and northern haliȝ, haly day, midland and southern hooly day, holy day, holyday. In early times, more usually a compound, OE. háliᵹdæᵹ. ME. haliday, later holiday, q.v. Since the 16th c. the habit has more and more prevailed to use the analytical form, whether written holy day, holy-day, or holyday, in the original sense, and to restrict holiday (ˈhɒlɪdeɪ) to the sense ‘day of recreation’ (although the spelling holiday, in the sense of holy day, has not become quite obsolete). See holiday 1.]
A day consecrated or set apart for religious observance, usually in commemoration of some sacred person or event; a religious festival.
a1000Laws of æthelred vi. c. 22 (Schmid) Woroldricra weorca on þam halᵹan dæᵹe ᵹeswice man ᵹeorne. c1200Ormin 4350 Forr Saterrdaȝȝ wass haliȝ daȝȝ. 13..E.E. Allit. P. B. 134 Hit watz not for a haly day honestly arayed. 1462in Ellacombe Ch. Bells Devon, Bells Ch. ix. (1872) 469 Every Sonday and woly day. 1552Bk. Com. Prayer, Communion (Rubric), Any holye dayes or fasting daies. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (J.), They kept that day as one of their solemn holydays for many years after. 1663Butler Hud. i. i. 213 A Sect..That with more care keep Holy-day The wrong, than others the right way. 1844Lingard Anglo-Sax. Ch. (1858) II. App. A. 331 The days of St. Augustine and St. Boniface were ordered to be kept as holydays. 1871Daily News 7 Apr., Of late years Good Friday has become..a general holiday rather than a holy day. 1876Miss G. Cumming In Hebrides (1883) 2 We..soon found..that they were keeping holy-day or holiday, as the case might be.
attrib.1549Latimer 5th Serm bef. Edw. VI (Arb.) 141 It is a holy daye worcke to vyset the prisoners. 1552Huloet, Holy daye euen, or halfe holy day, profestus. 1682N. O. Boileau's Lutrin iv. 70 He calls..for's Holy-day Apparell! |