单词 | gang day |
释义 | Gang Dayn. Now historical. Each of the three days preceding Ascension Day (Holy Thursday), during which religious processions take place; a Rogation Day. Chiefly in plural. Cf. Gang Week n.Old English se ǣnlīpiga gangdæg (lit. ‘the single Gang Day’), Middle English the olde gang day (cf. quots. OE1, ?a1450) denote the Rogation Day usually celebrated on April 25 (sometimes called ‘the major Rogation Day’); cf. Rogation Days n. at rogation n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Sunday before Ascension > [noun] > week following > days in Gang DayeOE ȝongdawesc950 going daysa1250 roveisonc1300 rogationa1387 procession daya1450 Rogation Daysa1450 cross-days1501 eOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Parker) anno 891 Þy ilcan geare ofer Eastron, ymbe gangdagas [OE Tiber. B.i gandagas] oþþe ær, æteowde se steorra þe mon on boclæden hæt cometa. OE De Diebus Festis (Harl.) 72 Ðæs on feower nihtum bið Sancta Marian mæsse; and ðæs ymbe feower wucan and ymbe þreo niht bið se ænlipiga gangdæg. OE Rules for Finding Movable Feasts (Corpus Cambr. 422) in H. Henel Stud. zum Altenglischen Computus (1934) 43 Æfter octaua kalendas Maii..þonne on þone mona[n]dæg æfter sunnandæge ðe ðar nyhst cymþ byð forma gangdæg. c1300 St. Edmund Rich (Laud) l. 359 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 441 In a time atþe gang-dawes [Harl. roueisouns], þis holie man al-so Prechede a day at Oxenford. ?a1450 in G. R. Owst Preaching in Mediaeval Eng. (1926) v. 201 We have ii procescion dayes, the firste is the olde gang day on the whiche we sey the more latyne. 1469 in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 101 Item, Beves..by the yere, vii weekes rebated for Lent and gang daies, 410. c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. ix. vi. f. 115/1 In this tyme was institut the processioun of the gang dayis in France thre dayis afore the Ascension day be Mamercius byschop of Ueen. 1571 E. Grindal Articles B ij b Whether..the parson, vicar [etc.]..in the dayes of the Rogations, commonly called the gang dayes, walke the accustomed bounds of your Parish. 1634 J. Canne Necessitie of Separation ii. 111 The observation of Gangdayes, or rogation weeke, is wholy Popish. 1792 Burn's New Law Dict. 400 Gang days, days for perambulation of the boundaries of parishes; from the Saxon gangan, to go. 1869 Once a Week 22 May 418 It would appear that the ancient ceremony observed on the Gang-days in the Gang-week, has fallen as low in estimation as the word Gang itself. 1896 A. Austin England's Darling ii. i. Before gangdays come round anew. 1903 Rec. Bucks. 8 72 The observance of the Gang-Days for ‘possessioning’ the parish was regularly kept up in Wycombe. 1971 K. Thomas Relig. & Decline of Magic iii. 65 These Rogation ceremonies, ‘gang days’, or ‘cross days’, as they were called, were, of course, not primarily regarded as a magical method for making the crops grow. 1994 D. Cooper & P. Sullivan Maypoles, Martyrs & Mayhem 124/1 In the north of England this period of bounds-beating was known as the Gang Days or Ganging Days. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.eOE |
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