单词 | holy-day |
释义 | holy-dayn. A day consecrated or set apart for religious observance, usually in commemoration of some sacred person or event; a religious festival. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > [noun] tidea900 holidayc950 massOE holy-daya1000 mass-dayOE high tideOE holy-tidea1035 good tideOE high dayOE feastc1200 feast dayc1300 ferie1377 festival day1389 solemnity1390 solennityc1400 feastful day1440 festiala1450 festivala1500 sacre1542 panegyry1641 Magdalene-tide1649 church festival1661 surplice day1663 festa1800 festa day1835 fiesta1844 a1000 Laws of Æthelred (Schmid) vi. c. 22 Woroldricra weorca on þam halgan dæge geswice man georne. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 4350 Forr saterr-daȝȝ wass haliȝ daȝȝ. c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 134 Hit watz not for a haly day honestly arayed. 1462 in H. T. Ellacombe Church Bells Devon, Bells Ch. (1872) ix. 469 Every Sonday and woly day. 1549 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16267) Svpper of the Lorde f. cxxiiiv If vpon the Sunday or holy daye, the people be negligent to come to the Communion. 1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes (1610) 653 They kept that day as one of their solemn holydays for many years after. 1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. i. 16 A Sect..That with more care keep holy-day The wrong, then others the right way. 1845 J. Lingard Hist. & Antiq. Anglo-Saxon Church (ed. 3) II. App. a. 361 The days of St. Augustine and St. Boniface were ordered to be kept as holydays. 1871 Daily News 7 Apr. Of late years Good Friday has become..a general holiday rather than a holy day. 1876 C. F. G. Cumming In Hebrides (1883) 2 We..soon found..that they were keeping holy-day or holiday, as the case might be. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online December 2019). < n.a1000 |
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