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eOE (Northumbrian) Bede's Death Song (St. Gallen) 5 To ymbhycggannae..huaet his gastae godaes aeththa yflaes aefter deothdaege doemid uueorthae.

OE Vercelli Homilies (1992) xviii. 304 Þa ferde he þyder mid his þegnum, þeah ðe he wiste þæt hit þa æt his deaðdæge wære.

c1330 Assumption of Virgin (Auch.) l. 276 in Englische Studien (1885) 8 451 Jesu..wiste wel þourgh his miȝt Þat ȝhe [sc. Mary] wolde ben afriȝt Aȝen here deȝdai.

1389 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 121 At þe ded day of a broþer, euery couple to ȝeuyn iij. penys.

c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. iii. l. 104 (MED) Hennes to þi deþ day, do so no more.

?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 1540 My deed day comes at hand.

a1500 (?a1400) Stanzaic Life of Christ (Harl. 3909) (1926) l. 1038 That Iacob told at his deth-day.

1623 W. Drummond Cypresse Groue in Flowres of Sion 67 The death-day of thy body, is thy birth-day to Eternitie.

a1688 J. Bunyan Paul's Departure & Crown in Wks. (1692) 178/2 David..had done his work before his death-day came.

1799 Ann. Anthol. 1 190 The death-day of thy glory, Charles, hath dawn'd.

1818 J. Keats Endymion 55 Things to brood on with more ardency Than the death-day of empires.

1849 C. Brontë Let. 12 Apr. (2000) II. 200 I cannot forget Emily's death-day..she was torn conscious, panting, reluctant though resolute out of a happy life.

1882 J. Parker Apostolic Life I. 15 Your death-day need not come upon you as a surprise.

1909 E. V. Lucas Wanderer in Paris (1910) viii. 121 Monarchy, revived in 1814 after its murder on that appalling 10th of August (which was virtually its death day, although the date of the birth of the First Republic stands as September 21st, 1793).

1969 Rotarian Mar. 6/2 The 17th of March was his death-day in 493. He was 106.

1994 Weekly World News 8 Feb. 24/4 To find your death day, simply find the day you were born on the left below and read across to the right for the day you're most likely to die.

1579 T. Hide Consolatorie Epist. sig. Hiv Wee singe and reioyse of the martyres glorious triumphes. We kepe their deathe dayes.

1656 T. Blount Glossographia at Anniversary The martyrdom or death-days of Saints were celebrated yearly in the Church.

1764 R. Griffith Triumvirate II. cxliii. 157 He..immediately instituted the above funeral rite to her memory, to be performed weekly, on her death-day.

1784 S. Pegge Hist. Acct. Textus Roffensis 22 She published an English-Saxon Homily on the Birth-day, that is, the Death-day, of St. Gregory.

1855 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes II. xxxvii. 332 The death-day of the founder..is still kept.

1905 Athenæum 30 Sept. 431/3 The death-day was a festa with singing of canticles, as others joy over the coming into the world.

1936 Life 28 Dec. 44/1 His birthday is kept across the world. His death-day has set a gallows against every city skyline.

1974 R. J. Smith Ancestor Worship in Contemp. Japan iii. 80 The one [thin strip of unlacquered wood] with the name of the individual whose deathday is being observed is moved to the front of the container.

2004 Yoga Jrnl. Mar. 168 Only after I learned to sanctify her death day..did the pain of losing her ease.