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midday|ˈmɪddeɪ|
Forms: see mid a. and day. Also 4 miday, 6 myday.
[OE. middæᵹ (also as syntactical comb.) = OHG. mittitag and mitter tag (MHG. mittetac, mittac, also syntactically in oblique cases mitten tac etc.; mod.G. mittag), MDu., MLG. middach (mod.Du. middag), ON. miðdagr and miðr dagr (Sw., Da. middag).]
1. The middle of the day; the time when the sun is at its highest point, noon.
971Blickl. Hom. 47 Þriddan siþe on midne dæᵹ. c1000Sax. Leechd. III. 218 On þone twelftan dæᵹ byð seo sceadu to underne & to none xxv fota & to middæᵹe xxii. c1200Vices & Virtues 125 Alswa wel on buton mid-niht alswa on mid-daiᵹ. a1225Ancr. R. 34 Abute mid dei hwose mei, & hwose ne mei þeonne, o summe oðer time, þenche o Godes rode. a1300Floriz & Bl. 151 Biþat hit was middai hiȝ, Floriz was þe brigge niȝ. c1330Arth. & Merl. 5189 (Kölbing) Miday passed & none cam. c1460Towneley Myst. xxvi. 522 Sich melody, myd-day ne morne, As was maide thore. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 73 b, The lyght of the mornynge & the lyght of the myddaye..is all of one nature. 1594T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. ii. 179 They are like to men compassed and couered with darknes at Midday. a1631Donne Lett., To M. I. W. 8 Like infancy or age to mans firme stay, Or earely or late twilights to mid-day. 1667Milton P.L. viii. 112 Ere mid-day arriv'd In Eden. 1718Atterbury Serm. (1734) I. vii. 184 Had he [Jesus] appeared at Mid-day to all the People, yet all the People would not have believed in him. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. vi. 42 The sun at mid-day shines down the glacier. 1866G. Macdonald Ann. Q. Neighb. xiii, The church was always clean and ready for me after about mid-day.
fig.1837–9Hallam Hist. Lit. IV. iv. vii. §10. 297 Her letters..were written in the mid-day of Louis's reign.
†b. Eccl. One of the canonical hours; = sext.
a1000Colloquy of ælfric in Wr.-Wülcker 101/17 æfter þisum we sungan middæᵹ. c1050Suppl. ælfric's Gloss. ibid. 175/45 Sexta, middæᵹ. c1290St. Brendan 225 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 225 Þe foweles sunge ek here matyns wel riȝt,..& of þe sauter seide þe uers & siþþe also prime, & vnderne siþþe, & middai. a1400Morte Arth. 1587 He salle haue maundement to-morne or myddaye be roungene.
†2. The South. [Cf. L. meridies, F. midi.] Obs.
1481Caxton Myrr. ii. i, This place Aaron is named the ryght mydday as she that is sette in the myddle of the worlde. 1526Tindale Acts viii. 26 Aryse and goo towardes midde daye. 1604E. G[rimstone] D'Acosta's Hist. Indies iii. ii. 121 The Southerne which blows from the Midday or South, is hote.
3. attrib., as (in sense 1) midday-coach, midday-devotions, midday-dinner, midday-heat, midday-light, midday-meal, midday-mealtime, midday-post, midday-rest, midday-slumber, midday-splendour, midday-sun, midday-thermometer, midday-time, midday-train; † (in sense 2) midday field, midday forest, midday side. Also † midday circle = meridian circle; † midday devil, fiend, transl. of Vulg. dæmonium meridianum Ps. xc[i], for which the Eng. Bible has ‘the destruction that wasteth at noonday’ (cf. meridian devil); midday flower, a flower belonging to the genus Mesembryanthemum, which opens its flowers only for a short time at midday; † midday line = meridian line; midday song = sense 1 b; † midday sphere, ? the southern heavens; † midday sprite, ? = midday devil.
1559W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 21 The meridiane or *middaie circle (saith he) is describid and drawen by the poles of the worlde [etc.].
1861Dickens Gt. Expect. xxx, To London by the *mid-day coach.
a1340Hampole Ps. xc[i]. 6 Thou sall noght drede..of inras and *mydday deuyll. 1534More Comf. agst. Trib. iii. ii. (1553) N vij b, In this temptacion he sheweth himself such as the prophet nameth him, demonium meridianum, the mid day deuill. 1709Pope Jan. & May 48 They style a wife..A night-invasion and a mid-day-devil.
1694F. Bragge Disc. Parables xiii. 435 Our *midday devotions, because we are then in the midst of the dangers and temptations of the day.
1852Miss Mulock Agatha's Husband xx. (1875) 273 A *mid-day country dinner.
1382Wyclif Ezek. xx. 46 Prophecy thou to the wodi place, or wildernes, of the *myddai, or south, feeld [Vulg. agri meridiani].
1388― Ps. xc[i]. 6 Of asailing, and a *myddai feend. a1400Hylton Scala Perf. (W. de W. 1494) ii. xxxviii, They are begyled of the myddaye fende.
1388Wyclif Ezek. xx. 47 And thou schalt seie to the *myddai forest [Vulg. saltui meridiano].
1592Shakes. Ven. & Ad. 177 Titan tired in the *midday heate, With burning eye did hotly ouer-looke them.
1614Jackson Creed iii. 315 As if there were no difference betwixt *mid-day-light and mid-night-darkenesse.
1554Lydgate's Bochas i. i. 2 The sonne..more clere dyd shine Than it doth now in his *midday lyne. 1878Huxley Physiogr. 7 The line indicated by the shadow at noon is known as the meridian line or mid-day line.
1861D. Greenwell Poems 224 Come and share My *mid-day meal.
1393Langl. P. Pl. C. x. 246 At *mydday meel-tyme ich mete with hem ofte.
1857Mrs. Carlyle Lett. II. 314, I may have a letter by the *midday post.
1821Byron Cain iii. i, His hour of *mid-day rest is nearly over.
1612Drayton Poly-olb. i. 172 Let vs (nobler Nymphs) vpon the *mid-daie side, Be frolick with the best.
1837Whewell Hist. Induct. Sci. (1857) I. 14 The period of the first waking of science, and that of its *mid-day slumber.
1853Rock Ch. of Fathers III. ii. 8 In like manner, *midday-song or sext, and none-song, were gone through.
1430–40Lydg. Bochas iv. xi. (1494) o viij b, Towarde Septemptrion [and] vnder the *mydday spere his power raught and his regalye.
1854J. S. C. Abbott Napoleon (1855) II. iv. 72 A brilliant moon diffused an almost *midday splendor.
a1529Skelton Sp. Parrot 507 So myche coniuracions for elvyshe *myday sprettes.
c1420Pallad. on Husb. ii. 159 The *mydday sonne ek stonde hit with to mete, In placis colde. 1591Shakes. 1 Hen. VI, i. i. 14 His sparkling Eyes,..More dazzled and droue back his Enemies, Then mid-day Sunne, fierce bent against their faces. 1745Wesley Answ. Ch. 22 The Difference between them is as great as the Difference between the Light of the Morning and that of the Mid-day Sun.
1856Kane Arct. Expl. II. vii. 78 So mild that our *mid-day thermometers gave but 7°.
a1300Cursor M. 22512 Þe sun..quen it es þe fairest on to loke At *middai time.
1874Burnand My time xi, He could dispose of me by a *mid-day train. |