| 单词 | st andrew's tide |
| 释义 | > as lemmasSt. Andrew's tide a. An anniversary or festival of the church: chiefly in the names of holy seasons or saints' days, e.g. St. Andrew's tide, †Saint Botulf's tide. See also All-Hallowtide n. at All-Hallows n. Compounds 2, Christ-tide n., Eastertide n., Lammas-tide n. at Lammas n. Compounds 1, Shrovetide n., Whitsuntide n., high tide n., holy-tide n., etc. 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 a900 Anglo-Saxon Chron. ann. 759 Her Bregowine wæs to ercebisc̃ gehadod to Sc̃e Michaeles tide. a900 Old Eng. Martyrol. 18 May 84 On þone eahtateogðan dæg þæs monðes bið sancte Johannes tid. c1050 Byrhtferth's Handboc in Anglia (1885) 8 300 Fram easter tide þæt he eft cume. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 8895 Att te passke messe daȝȝ..þe boc hemm tahhte. To frellsenn þær þatt heȝhe tid. c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 3 To dai is cumen ðe holie tid þat me clepeð aduent. 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 10877 Sir edward ibore was A seint botulfes tid. c1400 Brut cxxxix. 146 Þe sege endurede fro Michelmasse vnto Seynt Andrewus tyde. a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) i. f. 6v In a faire garden about S. Iames tyde. 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xv. 636/1 From the next Michaels-tide vnto Easter. 1615 W. Lawson Country Housewifes Garden (1626) 12 At Mighill-tide it will be good to sow Wall-flowers. a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) iii. i. 12 What hath this day deseru'd..That it in golden letters should be set Among the high tides in the Kalender? View more context for this quotation 1819 W. Cobbett Year's Resid. U.S.A. ii. iii. 159 The country people in England go, to this day,..by the tides; and,..in some cases, by the moveable tides. My gardener..very reluctantly obeyed me..in sowing green kale..because Whitsuntide was not come, and that, he said, was the proper season. 1839 J. H. Newman Parochial Serm. IV. xxiii. 385 Feast-day and fast-day, holy tide and other tide. 1903 E. K. Chambers Mediæval Stage I. i. 16 Holy week, and similar solemn tides. 1957 F. L. Cross Oxf. Dict. Christian Church 49/2 In the Anglican Communion, St. Andrewstide is widely observed by intercessions for foreign missions. 1975 Church Times 15 Aug. 2/3 Last week—St Laurence-tide—all the churches supported a flower festival in the chapel. 1976 Church Times 15 Oct. 5/1 It has become the custom at St. Luke's-tide for the Church to pray for doctors. < as lemmas |
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