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yule-day Chiefly Sc.
Forms: see yule n. and day n.
[OE. ᵹeohheldæᵹ; cf. ON. jóladagr.]
Christmas Day.
a900O.E. Martyrol. 1 Nov. 198 Se ærysta dæᵹ in natale domini, þæt is ærysta ᵹeohheldæᵹ. c1200Ormin 11063 Itt iss þe þrittennde daȝȝ Fra ȝoldaȝȝ, nohht te twellfte. c1205Lay. 22737 Hit wes in ane ȝeol-dæie þat Arður in Lundene lai. c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 10371 On þe ȝol day he made his feste. c1425Wyntoun Cron. v. vii. 1381 On Ȝoil [v.r. Ȝule] day He bad thre messis be said ay. 1488Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. I. 100 To the Kingis offerande on Ȝwle da, ij demyss. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. (S.T.S.) II. 462 Euin ȝuil day, Christes awne day. 1600J. Hamilton Facile Traictise 174 Thay cause thair wyfis and seruants spin in oppin sicht of the people vpon zeul day. a1670Spalding Troub. Chas. I (Bannatyne Club) I. 85 Doctor Scrogie gave the communion, upon Yeull day, in Old Aberdein. a1774Fergusson Daft Days v, Whan merry Yule-day comes, I trow, You'll scantlins fin' a hungry mou. |