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† ˈGang-week Obs.
[OE. gangwuce, f. gang n.1 + wuce week; cf. G. gangwoche, Sw. gång-vecka, ON. gangdaga-vika.]
Rogation week, in which the gang-days fell.
c1000Ags. Gosp. Mark xvi. 14 margin, Ðis sceal on þunres dæᵹ innan þære gang-wucan. 1530Palsgr. 809 In the gange weke, la sepmaine des rouuaysons. 1553tr. Beza's Admon. Parlt. (1566) D b, In the gang weke, when banners and belles..rangeth aboute in many places. a1571Jewel On 2 Thess. (1611) 129 They haue vsed in Rome, in their generall processions in gang week to goe to these seuen hils. 1607Schol. Disc. agst. Antichr. ii. vi. 76 What meaneth else their decking of crosses in gang-weeke? 1656Blount Glossogr. s.v. Rogation week, In the North of England it is called Gang week from the Ganging, or going on procession [etc.]. 1730–6in Bailey (folio); and in later Dicts. |