单词 | resting day |
释义 | > as lemmasresting day resting day n. ΚΠ OERestingdæge [see sense 1a]. 1532 T. More Confut. Tyndales Answere iii. p. cclxviii It pleased hym to haue wekely celebrate wyth the restynge day drawen from wordely besynes, to the desyre of heuen & acceptable seruyce of god. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 379 The Last shall be the very Resting-Day. a1772 W. Langhorne Serm. on Pract. Subj. (1773) I. 180 When God had finished the works of creation, which was at the end of six days, he made the seventh a resting-day for himself. 1853 W. H. Johnstone Sunday & Sabbath iv. 54 We must separate the two ideas which enter into the English conception of Sunday..the Sabbath, or resting-day, and the Lord's-day, or praying-day. 2008 Africa News (Nexis) 7 Jan. We use Sunday and other so-called Christian holidays as resting days. < as lemmas |
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