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a1350 St. Thomas Becket (Ashm.) (1919) Wendesday niȝt [c1300 Harl. The morwe upe Seint Lukes dai—Tuesdai hit was tho—He departede fram the Kinges court... Thane Wendesdai aniȝt out of the toun he nom; Sone amorwe thane Thursdai to Lincolne he com].

a1425 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) II. 423 Bigynnynge first at þe Wednesdai gospel in þe firste woke of Advent bifore Cristemasse.

1586 Treat. against Def. of Censure Bks. W. Charke & M. Hanmer i. 335 He alledgeth not onely a decree of the Apostles, but also the consent of all the world, for the wednesdaie fast, as well as the Fridaie fast.

1590 Cobler of Caunterburie sig. B4 On wednesday morning when the Scull shoulde goe for his cleane linnen, the Prior compounded with him..to keepe his counsaile.

1650 in Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS: Var. Coll. (1907) IV. 241 The defrayinge of the chardge for the Wensdaye lecture.

1673 S'too him Bayes 100 To your long business about the Clause to the Wednesday Act, and its binding the Conscience or no, I answer, [etc.].

1704 D. Defoe Storm iii. 25 On the Wednesday Morning before..it was fair Weather, and blew hard.

1768 J. Nassau Mem. Two Young Gentlemen xii. 227 The Wednesday afternoon before he died, most of the young gentlemen who had been his former intimate companions..came to visit him.

1819 Lady Morgan in Passages from Autobiogr. (1859) 304 Several of my liberal Wednesday-evening guests have been made peers.

1848 C. Dickens Dombey & Son liii. 530 My Wednesday nights came regularly round.

1883 D. C. Murray Hearts vii They're going to play my ‘Dream of Venice’ at Hoffmann's Wednesday Concerts.

1926 J. Galsworthy Silver Spoon i. vi. 40 A surprise for the coming Session is being confectioned at the Wednesday gathering of a young hostess.

2000 Sunday Times 23 July (Sports section) 10/4 His decision to put Sussex in first on Wednesday morning was met with more than one raised eyebrow.