单词 | eastertide |
释义 | Eastertiden. The church season of Easter; the period extending from Easter Sunday to either Ascension Day, Whit Sunday (Pentecost), or Trinity Sunday. Also (occasionally): Easter Day. Cf. Easter time n. at Easter n.1 Compounds 3. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Holy Week > [noun] > Sunday in > season in EastertideOE Easter timea1387 pasch-tidea1400 Paschaltide1876 OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) xxii. 355 Nu is his [sc. cristes] þrowung & his ærist ure eastertid. lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1123 Ða sone þærærter [read þæræfter] ferde se king to Winceastre & wæs ealle Eastrentyde þære. a1225 ( Rule St. Benet (Winteney) (1888) xlxix. 103 Hi ȝeorne bewerian..wið..unnitte spæce..þæt hi þa eastretid [OE Corpus Cambr. þara eastrona] onbidon mid blisse þære gastlican ȝewilnunȝe. c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) l. 2839 Þer it [sc. the sword Excalibur] stode til Ester-tide. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1876) VI. 99 Seint John..bygan to holde þe Ester tyde þe fourtenþe day of þe firste monþe. 1483 W. Caxton in tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende f. ccclxxxxv/2 A place lyke paradys, wherin they shold kepe theyr estertyde. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. xxix. f. lviv They shuld amonge them selfe amende certeyne erroures then vsyd in the Churche and specially for kepynge of theyr Ester tyde. ?1567 Def. Priestes Mariages (new ed.) 326 Commyng from Lincolne about Easter tyde by Oxforde, he toke his In at Osney. 1657 N. Billingsley Brachy-martyrologia 42 He persecution rais'd; at Easter tide Places of Divine worship he or'eturn'd. 1701 R. Morden New Descr. & State of Eng. 32 At Easter Tide near 700 received the Communion from my Hands. 1856 G. H. Smyttan in Penny Post Mar. 60/2 That with Thee we may appear Glorious at our Easter-tide. 1868 W. Morris Earthly Paradise ii. 213 If one chanced to fare Into that place at Easter-tide. 1918 A. S. Cripps Cinderella in South 56 He told me of her who had promised to marry him by Eastertide next year. Cecilia was her name. 1986 S. Penman Here be Dragons (1991) (U.K. ed.) i. xxiii. 317 The twisted, dark road they'd travelled together since that Eastertide at Rouen had come to an abrupt end. 2007 Church Times 21 Dec. 17/4 Pentecost and Candlemas..belong to the end of Eastertide and Christmastide respectively. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.OE |
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