单词 | lords day |
释义 | Lord's dayn. (A name for) Sunday. Originally and now usually with the.In the 17th and 18th centuries Lord's day (without the) was often used among Puritans and others as an ordinary name for Sunday; in the 19th and early 20th centuries this use continued in expressions such as ‘next Lord's day’. The phrase now only occurs with the, with reference to the sacred character of the day, chiefly in nonconformist or non-episcopal contexts. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > Sabbath > [noun] rest dayeOE sabbathc950 SundayeOE Lord's daya1225 Sabbath-dayc1380 ceasing-day1382 Dominical day1553 Sabaotha1599 Dominical1638 Shabbos1771 Shabbat1824 a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 41 Sunedei is ihaten þes lauerdes dei. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. ix. xxi. 534 Þe firste day hatte dies dominica ‘þe lordis day’ and Sonneday also. 1493 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (Pynson) iii. iii. sig. kiii/1 And therfore the sunday is clepyd the lordes day. Dies dominicus. 1534 W. Marshall tr. Erasmus Playne & Godly Expos. Commune Crede vi. f. 161v They fasted on the saterdayes, to thende that they myght come with more clene myndes vnto the celebrite of the sonday or the lordes day. 1599 Lady Hoby Diary 18 Aug. (1930) 64 I went about the house..workinge litle all that day because of my weaknes, least I should be disabled to keepe the Lordes day as I desired and am bound. 1639 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 177 Vpon euery Lord's day, called Sonday, throughout euery yere of the said terme. 1660 S. Pepys Diary 4 Mar. (1970) I. 76 Lords day. Before I went to church I sang [etc.]. 1677 Act 29 Charles II c. 7 in Statutes of Realm (1963) V. 848 For the better observation and keeping holy the Lords day commonly called Sunday. c1710 C. Fiennes Diary (1888) 301 They come in Coaches and drive round, but it is only Lords day nights and some nights. 1759 B. Fawcett in R. Baxter Saints Everlasting Rest (1836) Pref. 42 On Lord's days..a person..might overhear hundreds of families engaged in singing psalms. 1829 Amer. Baptist Mag. May 169/1 His unfavorable appearance last Lord's-day, was owing more to his want of language..than to his want of grace. 1843 Gospel Herald July 218 I feel so much better, I shall be able by next Lord's day to go to London. 1882 J. L. Watson Life R. S. Candlish viii. 97 Multitudes were thus induced to travel on the Lord's day. 1914 J. Mackay Church in Highlands 218 The Friday fellowship..gradually came to have a place..second only to the Lord's Day services. 1952 T. Armstrong Adam Brunskill xv. 485 The stricter of Skewdale's Sabbatarians had recently been considering what action might be taken for..too frequent desecration of the Lord's Day. 2012 Belfast Tel. (Nexis) 15 Mar. 29 I am against this event because it is being held on The Lord's Day. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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