α. 1700s– name day.
β. 1700s–1800s name's day.
单词 | name day |
释义 | name dayn.α. 1700s– name day. β. 1700s–1800s name's day. 1. a. The feast day of the saint whose name a person shares.Frequently with reference to a (Roman Catholic or Orthodox) sovereign, ruler, etc., whose name day is publicly celebrated. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > [noun] > of saint commemorationa1400 suffragesa1400 saint's daya1450 memorial?1471 feast1559 memoration1563 name day1721 fête1805 Hallow-daya1825 calendar-day1847 fête day1877 slava1900 α. β. 1799 W. Tooke View Russ. Empire I. 372 No one neglects to keep his birth and name's day, and those of his family.1842 J. L. Motley Let. 7 Feb. in Corr. (1889) I. iv. 98 The day of the Emperor's fête (or day distinguished..as the name's-day of the Czar).1881 Scribner's Monthly Oct. 886/1 On the 5th of December, the name's-day of the Empress.1721 London Gaz. No. 5980/2 Yesterday being the King of Sweden's Name-Day. 1777 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. II. 433 Presents made to him on the anniversary of his Name-day (which is always observed as an high festival). 1812 Examiner 12 Oct. 649/1 The accounts of the battle..reached the Emperor early on the morning of his name-day. 1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 21 Sept. 9/1 Several promotions..were made at St. Petersburg on the occasion of the Emperor's name-day. 1897 E. A. Bartlett Battlefields Thessaly xiii. 282 He said it was his own name-day, that of St. George. 1916 Christian Sci. Monitor 5 June 1/1 The action took place while the Greek troops were marching to St. Sofia church on the occasion of King Constantine's nameday. 1975 R. Graves Coll. Poems xiii. 227 Tears of delight that on my name-day She gave me nothing. 1988 J. Benedetti Stanislavski i. 9 She rehearsed the children in a series of tableaux vivants..intended as a surprise offering in honour of Elizaveta Vasilievna's name-day. ΘΚΠ the world > time > particular time > an anniversary > [noun] > day or date on which one is born > day on which a child is named name day1880 1880 J. Muirhead in tr. Ulpian Rules xv, in tr. Gaius Institutes 391 (note) The name-day was the ninth for boys and the eighth for girls. 2. Stock Market. = ticket-day n. at ticket n.1 Compounds 2. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > stock exchange accounting period > settlement > settlement day > day before name day1850 ticket-day1858 1850 Morning Chron. 30 May 2/1 This was ‘carrying-over day’ in Railway Shares, preparatory to ‘name day’ tomorrow, and the settlement of the account on Friday next. 1868 K. E. Digby Sale & Transfer Shares i. 7 The ‘account’ consists of three successive days. The first is called carrying-over or contango day..; the second, the name-day. 1895 A. J. Wilson Gloss. Colloq. Terms Stock Exchange 170 Each settlement occupies three days—1st, ‘contango day’..; 2nd, ‘name day’, when the names of buyers of registered securities are passed to the sellers; and 3rd, ‘pay day’. 1907 A. P. Poley & F. H. C. Gould Hist., Law, & Pract. Stock Exchange ii. iii. 178 It is called the ticket or name day because of the passing of tickets or names on that day. 1941 C. A. Dice & W. J. Eiteman Stock Market (ed. 2) x. 155 The second day of settlement is called ‘ticket day’ or ‘name day.’ On this day a broker who wishes delivery on stock that he has bought sends a ticket to his jobber, giving the name of the security. 1970 M. Greener Penguin Dict. Commerce 325 Ticket day..is also sometimes called name day. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1721 |
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