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work-day, n. and a.|ˈwɜːkdeɪ|
[OE. weorcdæᵹ (= Du. werkdag, OHG., MHG. werctac, G. werktag, ON. verkdagr) does not seem to have survived; ME. werkday is prob. a new formation on work n. + day n.1, or ad. ON.; cf. workaday.]
A. n. A day on which work is ordinarily performed; a week-day.
c1430Freemasonry (1847) 270 That the mason worche apon the werk day. c1440Promp. Parv. 522/2 Werkday, feria. 1488Somerset Med. Wills (1901) 279, I wold my prest shuld sing in them the werke daies during the 12 monethis. 1535Coverdale Ezek. xlvi. 1 Y⊇ dore of the ynnermer courte..shall be shut the vj. worke dayes. 1548–9Bk. Com. Prayer, Communion rubric, When the holy Communion is celebrate, on the workeday. 1563Homilies ii. Of Place & Time of Prayer i. 139 They vse all dayes a lyke, workedayes and holydayes are all one. a1639Hinde J. Bruen xlvii. (1641) 153 Neither holy-day, nor work-day. 1706S. Centlivre Platonic Lady i. ii. Wks. 1760 II. 194 She..paid the Labourers their Wages on Work-days, and took a Jigg with them on Holy-days. 1824Miss Mitford Village Ser. i. Hannah 22 We (the privileged) see on a work-day the names which the sabbath announces to the generality.
¶ Used for daywork 2.
1670Blount Law Dict. (1691), When they performed their Boons or Work-days to their Lord.
B. attrib. passing into adj. Belonging to or characteristic of a work-day; performed, worn, etc. on a work-day; also fig. = workaday B.
c1500Ely Episc. Rec. (1891) 211, I give to Edmund Garred my worke day gown. 1540Test. Ebor. (Surtees) VI. 103 My warkday gowne. 1563in Strype Ann. Ref. (1709) I. xxxv. 357 My Visitation Sermons and Workday Sermons. 1622Knaresb. Wills (Surtees) II. 77 My woorkday gowne..thre woorkday aprens, one woorkday band. 1808Scott Marm. vi. iii, Ne'er, in work-day world, was seen A form so witching fair. 1831James Phil. Augustus xl, [It] relieves the mind from petty calculation and workday cares. 1849Mrs. Carlyle Lett. II. 72, I saw him..after unloading the waggon, in his workday clothes. 1859Kingsley Misc. I. 16 Unfit for this workday world. 1889Corbett Monk xiv. 195 This dull work-day soldier. |