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high day, ˈhigh-day, ˈhighday, n.
[In I. from high a.; in II. for hey-day.]
I.
1. A day of high celebration; a solemn or festal day.
c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 215 Eche heȝe dai [þe hodede sholde] fede mid godes worde þe hungrie soule. c1400Ywaine & Gaw 52 Thai saw tham never so On high dayes to chamber go. 1526Tindale John xix. 31 That saboth daye was an hye day. 1535Coverdale Baruch i. 14 Se that ye rede this boke..vpon the hye dayes, and at tyme conuenient. 1712W. Rogers Voy. 42 The Day kept for the Conception of the Virgin Mary, and a high Day of Procession. 1865M. Arnold Ess. Crit. iii. 105 Here, the summer has, even on its highdays and holidays, something mournful. 1883T. Hardy in Longm. Mag. I. 570 Never used but at high-days, holidays and family feasts.
†2. Full day, when the sun is high in the sky. Also attrib. as high-day noon. Obs.
1583Hollyband Campo di Fior 5, I will open both these windowes, that..ye may..see, that it is highe day. 1647H. More Song of Soul i. iii. xxvii, The Sun of righteousnesse at high-day noon.
II.
3. Perverted form of hey-day n. 2.
1771Smollett Humph. Cl. II. 50 (D.) In the high-day of youth and exultation. a1791Wesley Wks. (1830) XIII. 221 I do nothing rashly—the highday of my blood is over. 1862Merivale Rom. Emp. (1865) IV. xxxix. 398 The land⁓owners of Rome, in the highday of her insolent adolescence.
III. 4. attrib. a. Of or befitting a high day. b. Pertaining to the hey-day of youth.
1596Shakes. Merch. V. ii. ix. 98 Thou spend'st such high⁓day wit in praising him. a1625Fletcher Mad Lover i. i, Look to your wives, Your young trim wives, your high-day wives, Your marchpanes. |