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Monday|ˈmʌndeɪ, -dɪ|
Forms: 1–2 Mónan dæᵹ, 2 Monendæiᵹ, Móndæᵹ, 3 Monen dai, Munendai, 3–4 Monenday, Monedai, (3 -dæi, 5 -day), 5–7 Munday, (6 -day(e), 5 Monnyn day, Monunday, 8 Mooneday, 4– Monday; Sc. 5 Monoundai, Monynday, Monnunda, 6 Mon(o)unday, 6–9 Mononday, (7 Moonday), 8 Mununday, 9 Munan-, Mona(n)-, Munonday.
[OE. Mónandæᵹ, f. mónan genit. of móna moon n.1 + dæᵹ day; a translation of late L. Lūnæ diēs, whence F. lundi, It. lunedì, etc. Equivalent forms in the other Teut. langs. are OFris. mônendei, mônedei, MLG. mânendach, mândach, MDu. manendach, maendach (Du. maandag), OHG. mânetag (MHG. mântac, mæ̂ntac, môntac, mod.G. Montag), ON. mánadag-r (Sw. måndag, Da. mandag).]
1. The second day of the week.
c1000Ags. Gosp. John vii. 32 rubric, Ðys sceal on monan dæᵹ on þære fyftan wucan innan lenctene. c1050Byrhtferth's Handboc in Anglia (1885) VIII. 321 Þæs sunnandæᵹes nama wæs of þære sunnan, & þæs monandæᵹes of þæs monan. c1060–1125Rect. Singul. Person. §3 in Liebermann Gesetze 445 Kotesetlan riht be ðam ðe on lande stent: on sumor he sceal ælce Mondæᵹe ofer ᵹeares fyrst his laforde wyrcan. 1129O.E. Chron. an. 1129, Þa began þæt mot on Monendæiᵹ & heold on an to ðe Fridæiᵹ. c1200Winteney Rule St. Benet (1888) 49 Þæt is asunnandæȝe & on monan dæȝ. c1250Gen. & Ex. 72 He fel out on ðe munendai. c1290Beket 900 in S. Eng. Leg., And þe Monenday sore syk þe bischop thomas lay. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) II. 25 From Saturday at none for to Monday. 1422Rolls of Parlt. IV. 173/2 The Monunday next before the fest of Seint Martyn. a1557Diurn. Occur. (Bannatyne Cl.) 24 The Inglismen come on Scottis ground, and lay still fra Monunday to Sattirday. 1562Winȝet Cert. Tractates iii. Wks. (S.T.S.) I. 23 On Pasche Monunday last passit. 1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. iii. iv. 17 Cap. But soft, What day is this? Pav. Monday, my Lord. 1624Laud Diary 29 Mar., Wks. 1853 III. 151 Easter Monday. 1638R. Brathwait Barnabees Jrnl. (1818) 15 Banbery..Where I saw a Puritane-one Hanging of his cat on Monday, For killing of a mouse on Sonday. c1713H. Carey Ballad, Sally in our alley iv, And that's the day that comes betwixt A Saturday and Monday. a1810Tannahill Poems (1846) 145, I see I maun quat takin' Munonday's yill. 1896A. E. Housman Shropshire Lad iii, Or come you home of Monday When Ludlow market hums.
2. With specific epithet. Black Monday, (a) a name for Easter Monday (the historical explanations in the quots. are untrustworthy; for the unlucky character ascribed to Mondays generally, and esp. to one or more Mondays in April, see Leechdoms III. 76 and 162, Brand's Pop. Antiq. ed. Ellis 1813 I. 466 ff., and quot. 1700; the common notion that rejoicing is naturally followed by calamity may have caused the day after Easter day to be regarded as even more perilous than other Mondays); (b) school slang, the first school-day after a vacation. † Bloody Monday school slang, the first day of vacation, a day of punishment for offenders. † Fat Monday [= F. lundi gras], the Monday before Shrove Tuesday. Saint Monday, used with reference to the practice among workmen of being idle on Monday, as a consequence of drunkenness on the Sunday; chiefly in phrase to keep Saint Monday. Collop Monday: see collop1 1 c. Handsel Monday: see handsel 5. Also Hock-Monday, Plough-Monday.
1359E.E. Gilds (1870) (MS. ? 1389) 97 Yis gilde schal haue, by ȝere, foure mornspeches..ye secunde schal be on blake monunday. c1435Chron. London (Kingsford 1905) 13 In the same yere [1360] the xiiij day off April and the morwe after Ester Day, Kyng Edward with his Oost lay byfore the Citee off Parys; the which was a ffoule Derke day..so bytter colde, that syttyng on horse bak men dyed. Wherefore, vnto this day yt ys called blak Monday. 1449Bower Fordun's Scotichron. xiv. xvii. 358–9 [Relates that the army of the Black Prince sustained terrible losses from a storm on Easter-Monday 1357.] Propter hoc hucusque in Anglia feria secunda Paschæ Blak-mononday vulgariter nuncupatur. 1491Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. I. 176 Item, on Blak Monnunda, to the Freris of Edinburgh, ix s. 1596Shakes. Merch. V. ii. v. 25 It was not for nothing that my nose fell a bleeding on blacke monday last. 1601Nottingham Rec. (1889) IV. 256 Itt ys ordered, that the Aldermen..shall wayte on Maister Maior on Blake Monday yearely. a1604Hanmer Chron. Irel. (1633) 186 Anno 1209, the occasion of blacke Munday, and the originall remembrance thereof rose at Dublin. [A massacre of the English settlers of Dublin by the Irish on Easter-Monday.] 1700Poor Robin Feb., I find not by the Stars we shall have ever a Black-Monday this Month, which we are very glad of, because such days are very prejudicial to the Credit of Astrology. 1735Ibid. Jan., But after Twelfth day Christmass is visibly eclips'd and beclouded; then comes Black monday for the School boys, and they as well as the rest must go to their daily Labour. 1749Fielding Tom Jones viii. xi, My mother..made home so disagreeable to me, that what is called by school-boys Black Monday, was to me the whitest in the whole year. 1829Brockett N.C. Words (ed. 2), Black-Monday, the first day of going to school after the vacation.
1682R. Verney Let. to Father Winchester College 18 May, We shall breack up on the Whensday before holy Thursday: And Sr. I would desire you to let your horses be here on the Satterday following that I may be going on Bloddy Munday, upon which day all the Children..Goe home & after that day noebody stays but some of the Children which the Warden makes stay here for some notorious action they have committed. 1765Garrick in Univ. Mag. XXXVII. 326/1, I, like a boy who long has truant play'd..On bloody Monday take my fearful stand And often eye the birchen-scepter'd hand.
1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. iv. xxxvi. 159 b, They doe obserue two Lents..wherof the first beginneth on the fat munday, being ix. dayes before the lent of the Latins.
1753Scots Mag. Apr. 208/1 (title) St. Monday; or, the tipling tradesmen. 1804M. Edgeworth Popular T., To-morrow vii. (1856) 408 note, It is a custom in Ireland among shoemakers, if they intoxicate themselves on Sunday, to do no work on Monday; and this they call making a Saint Monday. 1857Gen. P. Thompson Audi Alt. I. vii. 22 An assemblage of artisans keeping Saint Monday. 1890E. Roper By Track & Trail xvii. (1891) 255 Ah Sin loses no time in holiday..he has no St. Mondays.
3. attrib., as Monday night, Monday pop, etc. Also Monday Club, a right-wing Conservative club (cf. club n. 13) that originally held its meetings on Mondays; so Monday-clubber, a member of this club; Monday-morning attrib., suggestive of lethargy or disinclination after a busy or eventful weekend.
1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, i. ii. 39 A purse of Gold most resolutely snatch'd on Monday night. 1602― Ham. ii. ii. 406 A Monday morning 'twas so indeed. 1676Lady Chaworth in 12th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. v. 33, I shall send your Lordship the peck of chesnuts..by the Munday carrier. 1862Monday pop [see pop n.4]. 1880W. S. Gilbert Patience ii, Who thinks suburban ‘hops’, More fun than ‘Monday Pops’. 1884J. Quincy Figures of Past 198 Here we were, Monday evening, actually dining in New York. 1892Kipling Barrack-room Ballads, Snarleyow, An' if one wheel was juicy, you may lay your Monday head 'Twas juicier for the niggers. 1897M. Kingsley W. Africa 142 This morning the French official seems sad and melancholy. I fancy he has got a Monday head (Kipling). 1921D. H. Lawrence Sea & Sardinia 261 The rather inert, narrow, Monday-morning street. 1938R. G. Collingwood Princ. Art v. 95, I get back to my book with that Monday-morning feeling. 1962Evening Standard 12 Feb. 6 (caption to cartoon), Lord Salisbury has become patron of the ‘Monday Club’, a new group of Young Conservatives formed to ‘keep the Conservative Party Conservative’. 1966Observer 16 Oct. 12/5 To dismiss them simply as acts of political vengeance or as another example of ‘African savagery’ is Monday Club mumbo-jumbo. 1970G. K. Roberts Political Parties & Pressure Groups in Britain i. 9 Pressure-groups within political parties... Recent examples in Britain are:..the Monday Club, which tries to maintain what it chooses to regard as the basic principles of Conservatism. 1972R. Copping Story of Monday Club 5 Rebelling against Macmillan's ‘Winds of Change’ speech a tiny group of young conservative dissentients formed the Monday Club on 1st January 1961. 1972Times 21 July 12/1 His successful conservative opponent, the Monday Clubber, Harold Soref. 1973Times 20 June 4/3 The executive of the Monday Club, the right-wing Conservative pressure group, decided last night..to expel the Essex branch of the club for its associations with the National Front. 1973Guardian 27 June 1/3 Mr Enoch Powell..banned reporters from a Monday Club meeting last night.
Senses 1 and 2 in Dict. become A. n. 1,2; sense 3 in Dict. becomes C. attrib. and adj. Add: B. adv. a. In sing. (earliest in the Monday), on Monday; last Monday, next Monday. colloq. in later use. b. In pl., on Mondays; each Monday. colloq.
c1300S. Eng. Legendary: St. Thomas A Becket (E.E.T.S., 1956) ii. 639 Þe Moneday Sein Thomas wel sore sik lay. 1644Mercurius Civicus 19–26 Sept., Monday we had intelligence that Lieutenant General Cromwell [etc.]. 1780W. Fleming Jrnl. 14 Mar. in N. D. Mereness Trav. Amer. Colonies (1916) 634 Monday night there was a smart white frost. 1880‘M. Twain’ Tramp Abroad App. F. 626 German papers..contain..no rehash of cold sermons Mondays. 1932W. Faulkner Light in August xiii. 282 The temperature began to rise Monday. 1942― Go down, Moses 249 You've got to be back in school Monday. 1970New Yorker 25 July 8/2 Dancing. Closed Mondays. 1991Times (Florence, Alabama) Daily 16 Apr. a6/1 The town council Monday unanimously approved a trash and garbage ordinance. |