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ˈmass-day arch.
[OE. mæssedæᵹ: see mass n.1 and day n.]
A feast-day.
971Blickl. Hom. 47 Þæt hi Sunnandaᵹum & mæssedaᵹum Godes cyrican ᵹeorne secan. 1154O.E. Chron. an. 1132 He com on S' Petres messe dei..into þe minstre. a1300E. E. Psalter lxxiii. 8 To reste make we mes-daies alle Of God fra erthe for oght mai falle. c1315Shoreham Poems (E.E.T.S.) i. 2031 Ne hy ne wondeþ messeday, Ne none holy tyde. 1867Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) I. v. 313 The observance of Eadward's mass-day was ordered in 1008. |