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First-day
The name given (chiefly by members of the Society of Friends) to Sunday, as being the first day of the week.
a1690G. Fox Jrnl. (1694) I. 168 Upon the first-day after, I was moved to go to Aldenham steeple-house. a1713T. Ellwood Autobiog. (1765) 101 One First day in four there was a more general Meeting. 1843Whittier First Day in Lowell Prose Wks. 1889 I. 369 One must be here of a pleasant First day at the close of what is called the ‘afternoon service’.
attrib.1773Hist. Brit. Dom. N. Amer. ii. iv. 278 First-day Baptists, whose weekly holiday is the Sunday. 1872Whittier Penn. Pilgrim 385 Fair First-Day mornings. |