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year's mind, ˈyear-mind
[OE. ᵹéarᵹemynd: see year n. and mind n.1 5 b.]
The commemoration of a deceased person by the celebration of requiem services a year after, or every year on the anniversary of, his death or funeral; a yearly obit. Cf. twelvemonth's, month's mind.
αa1100in Napier Contrib. OE. Lexicogr. (1906) 28 Ðis is seo caritas þe Baldwine abbod hæfð ᵹeunnon his ᵹebroðrum for Eadwardes sawle, þæs godan kynges, þæt is healf pund æt his ᵹearᵹemynde to fisce. 1489Will of R. Partrich of Sudbury, Suff. 5 Dec. (P.C.C., 1 dogett), vs. yerely to the keping of a yer minde for my soule. 1579–80North Plutarch (1595) 1104 For keeping of a yeare minde and for making feastfull dayes In honour of that worthy wight. 1587Golding De Mornay xv. (1592) 229 Hee commaunded an Anniuersarie or Yeere-minde to be kept in remembrance of him. 1606Holland Sueton. 19 b, Augustus had in mirth giuen him the name of Founder, he was so reputed, and his yeares-mind after his death solemnized accordingly.
β1408E.E. Wills (1882) 15 That..hys Executours..haue..rewlyng of my obytis, that ys for to sayn, my ȝerys mynde, xx wynter Af[t]er my deses. c1420Prymer 56 Graunte þou to þe soule of þi seruaunt, whos ȝeris mynde we maken to dai, a seete of refreschinge blisse. 1520Sir R. Elyot Will in T. Elyot Gov. (1883) App. A, The prest executing the service at myn enteryng, moneth mynde, and yeres mynde. 1558T. Phaer æneid Gen. Somme a iij, For his fathers honoure he deuised games of actiuitie, and set-foorthe his Obite or yeres mynde, with greate solempnitie. 1561Veron Hunt. Purgat. 25 The moneth myndes and yeares minds other wyse called Anniversaries. 1849Rock Ch. Fathers i. vii. II. 350 No others' names were read out but of those whose anniversary or year's mind fell upon that very Sunday or festival. 1902Westm. Gaz. 4 Feb. 7/3 The ‘Year's Mind’ of her late Majesty Queen Victoria was celebrated at St. Matthew's, Westminster, this morning. |