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Whitsun|ˈhwɪtsən|
Forms: 3 witsonen, witesone, 4 witsone, 4–6 Wytson, 5 Wyte-, Wytt-, White-, Whyght-, (Sc. Vit-), 5–6 Whyt-, 5–7 Wit-, 5–8 Whitson, 6 Whitsone, Wytsone, -sen, Witteson, (Sc. Vytson), 7–8 Whitsund, Whit-sun, 7– Whitsun. β. 5 Sc. quysson, 5, 9 dial. Whisson, 7 Whesen. (See also following words.)
[ME. w(h)itsone(n, the first two elements of Whit Sunday, Whitsunday, analysed as Whitsun Day. Cf. ON. hvítasunna Whitsunday, hvítasunnuvika Whitsun week, hvítasunnuaptann Whitsun eve.]
1. Used attrib. to denote something belonging to, connected with, or occurring at the season of Whit Sunday or Whitsuntide: as Whitsun air, Whitsun contribution, Whitsun fair, Whitsun holiday, Whitsun market, Whitsun morn, Whitsun morris-dance, Whitsun pastoral; Whitsun ale Hist. [ale 3], a parish festival formerly held at Whitsuntide, marked by feasting, sports, and merry-making; † Whitsun eve, even [eve n.1 2, even n. 2], the day before Whit Sunday; † Whitsun farthing = pentecostal n.; Whitsun gillyflower, local name for a double-flowered variety of rocket (Hesperis matronalis); † Whitsun lady, lord, titles of the leading or presiding personages at a Whitsun ale; Whitsun week, the week beginning with Whit Sunday, Whit-week. Also occas. in names of the days of Whit-week, as Whitsun Sunday (obs. or dial.) = Whit Sunday, Whitsun Monday, etc. = Whit Monday, etc. (see after Whit Sunday). See also Whitsuntide.
1846Keble Lyra Innoc. x. xi, Thy dread Hours, Thou awful Trinity, Are but the *Whitsun airs, new set on high.
1614W. Browne Sheph. Pipe i. C 6, This is a Tale Would befit our *Whitson-ale. 1619Pasquils Palin. B 3, Happy the age,..When euery village did a May-pole raise, And Whitson-ales, and May-games did abound. 1633Chas. I. Decl. conc. Sports 11 That after the end of Diuine Seruice, Our good people be not disturbed, letted, or discouraged from..hauing of May-Games, Whitson Ales, and Morris⁓dances. 1698Wallis in Phil. Trans. XX. 301 When they flock about a Ballad-Singer in a Fair, or the Morrice-Dancers at a Whitsund Ale. 1727Somerville Yeoman of Kent 32 At Whitson-ales king of the May..He tript it on each holyday. 1842J. Aiton Dom. Econ. (1857) 95 Royal proclamations had failed to revive Whitsunales, and May games, and Morris dancers. People will not be merry by rule.
1695Kennett Par. Antiq. ix. 597 The Pentecostals or *Whitsun-contributions.
1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 11855 A *witsonen eue hii come þer. 1475Paston Lett. (1904) V. 232 Wretyn at Mawteby, on Wyteson eve. 1553–4in Swayne Churchw. Acc. Sarum (1896) 99 Ryngyng' none on Whytson yeve, ij d. 1624Laud Diary 15 May, Saturday, Whitsun-eve, The Bill passed in Parliament. 1709First Publishers of Truth (1907) 242 The day Called whitsoneve.
c1425in Rep. MSS. Ld. Middleton (Hist. MSS. Comm. 1911) 107 On *Qwysson even everilke man breke his severyll gresse, os hym lykes. 1535Songs, Carols, etc. (E.E.T.S.) 165 On Wytson evyne was a gret thonder at London. 1620Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 26/1 Die Sabbati ante festum Pentecostes lie Witson-evin et 12 Nov.
1807Crabbe Par. Reg. i. 427 Loitering at the *Whitsun-fair.
1656in Urwick Nonconf. Worc. (1897) 56 Oblations commonly called by the name of *Whitson Farthings payable to the Dean and Chapter of W[orcester]. 1730Bailey (folio) s.v. Quadragesimals, Pentecostals or Whitsund Farthings. 1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XVIII. 852/1 Whitsun-Farthings, otherwise called Smoke-farthings.., a composition for offerings..anciently made in Whitsun-week by every man in England, who occupied a house with a chimney, to the cathedral church of the diocese.
1656W. Coles Art of Simpling xi. 33 May brings Roses, Pinks, *Whitsungilliflowers. 1886Britten & Holland Plant-n., Gilliflower, Whitsun. The double-flowered variety of Hesperis matronalis,..Som. (Whitsun Gilawfers).
1533Songs, Carols, etc. (E.E.T.S.) 163 Justis at Weste[m]ynster all þe *Wytson halydais. 1609B. Jonson Silent Wom. iii. i, Were you ever so much as look'd upon by a Lord,..but on the Easter, or Whitsonholydayes? 1715Lond. Gaz. No. 5336/1 Their Majesties intend to go after the Whitsun-Holidays to Marienzell.
1656Heylin Surv. France 47 A Kitchen-wench,..now so tricked up with scarfs, rings, and cross-garters, that you never saw a *Whitsun-Lady better rigged.
1611Melismata F 2 b, Ich haue beene twise our *Whitson Lord. 1633B. Jonson Tale of Tub Prol. 8 Old records Of antique proverbs, drawn from Whitson-lords.
1495Halyburton Ledger (1867) 108 At the *Vitson merkat.
1501Plumpton Corr. (Camden) 154 From Lyncolns Inne,..this *Whitsonemunday. 1622in Crt. & Times Jas. I. (1848) II. 315 The new Venetian ambassador..had his first audience on Whitsun-Monday. 1687MSS. Dk. Rutland (Hist. MSS. Comm.) II. 113 Whesen Monday. 1778Eng. Gazetteer (ed. 2), Linton,..10 miles from Cambridge..has a market on Thursday, and fairs on Whitsun-Monday, and August 4.
1535Starkey Let. in England (1871) p. xxii, Your letturys..were receyuyd apon *Wytson morn.
1599Shakes. Hen. V, ii. iv. 25 Busied with a *Whitson Morris-dance.
1611― Wint. T. iv. iv. 134, I play as I haue seene them do In *Whitson-Pastorals.
1556Chron. Grey Friars (Camden) 36 On *Wytsonsonday, which was the xxxj. of May, was the coronacion. 1825Brockett N.C. Gloss., Whisson-Sunday, Whitsunday.
1612Hopton Concord. Yeares 173 *Whitsun-thursday.
1599Min. Archdeaconry of Colchester lf. 248 (MS.) In the afternoone on Whitson monday and *Whitson tuasedaye all daye. 1662Bk. Com. Prayer N 3, Whitsun Tuesday. 1839Penny Cycl. XIII. 403/1.
1549Compl. Scot. 168 *Vytson veddyinsday.
1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 10542 Þe þorsdai þe *witesonewouke to londone lowis com. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xl. (Ninian) 734 Of witsone owke þe twysday. c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) xxxii. 147 Apon a Seterday in Whisson woke. 1478Paston Lett. III. 224 Wretyn at London, the Wednysdaye in Whyghtsonweke. 1551–2Act 5 & 6 Edw. VI c. 3 Monday and Tewisdaye in Witteson weike. 1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, ii. i. 95 On Wednesday in Whitson week. 1634Bk. Com. Prayer H 5, Munday in Whitsun weeke. 1848Mrs. Gaskell Mary Barton v, The great annual town-holiday of Whitsun-week.
2. n. Short for Whitsuntide. rare.
1849Disraeli in Monypenny & Buckle Life (1914) III. viii. 204 There will be a hot and perhaps eventful campaign between this and Whitsun. 1856Ibid. (1916) IV. iii. 45 Between Easter and Whitsun. |