nowadayadv.adj.n.

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iv. 2616 (MED) Ther ben full manye now aday, That knowen litel what thei meene.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) 702 (MED) Þe sonne was þat tyme we say Seuen siþe briȝtere þen now aday.

a1450 (c1400) in D. M. Grisdale 3 Middle Eng. Serm. (1939) 35 (MED) Lord God, vor þer be ani swich maner o men now-a-day!

?1515 Hyckescorner (de Worde) sig. B.ii^v We all may say weleaway for synne y^t is now adaye.

1598 T. Bastard Chrestoleros ii. Epigram 3 Monsters of men are many now a day, Which still like Vultures on the dead do pray.

1610 J. Heath In Abstinentiam in Two Centuries of Epigrammes xxviii If fasting set the spirit on motion, And breed a stomacke to deuotion Then do they not amisse, which now a day First fast, to get an appetite to pray.

1773 J. Robertson Poems (rev. ed.) 111 For Husbands seldom now-a-day, For their Wives Preservation pray.

1799 E. Dubois Piece Family Biogr. II. 94 Χρυσεα χαλχειων won't do now-a-day.

1801 ‘Gabrielli’ Mysterious Husband III. 47 To be sure great folks now-a-day look out for grand fortunes!

1837 N. Whittock et al. Compl. Bk. Trades 411 A very humble..branch of manufactures, receives several names, now a-day, according to the means used.

1885 Cornhill Mag. June 649 There might be some difficulty in lighting on a beaver nowaday except in a museum.

1921 Sci. Monthly Mar. 211 Now-a-day such a doctrine as Weismann's would not receive so respectful a hearing.

1991 K. Vonnegut Fates worse than Death xi. 108 Such a sop to civilian sensibilities nowaday would seem as unintentionally hilarious as a love scene between Gloria Swanson and Rudolph Valentino.

1632 H. Reynolds Mythomystes 13 The sore of our now-a-day Poets.

1819 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 47 118 Horace addicted himself to verse-making (like our now-a-day rimesters).

1866 F. Hall in Lyndesay's Monarche 157 (note) Now-a-day saints compared with those of old.

1898 S. Baring-Gould Old Eng. Home iv. 84 I do not know much about the cupboards of nowaday folk.

1970 Daily Tel. 28 Aug. 14 The warning contained in the Holy Father's sweeping condemnation of nowaday permissiveness.

1998 Denver Westword (Nexis) 13 Aug. Although I function in this nowaday world, that era appeals to me.

2001 Miami Herald (Nexis) 30 Nov. 36 g Modern-day cool seems to require irony, and one of South Beach's coolest spots of the nowaday cool has a wet T-shirt full of it.

1886 J. R. Rees Diversions of Book-worm iii. 83 His delightful stand-still is refreshing if only to think of, in the bustling nowaday.

1989 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) A. 329 43 According to figure 8a, the input circuits of a nowaday's TDM switch transmit the time-slots of a TDM system.