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noˈvendial, a. and n. rare.
[ad. L. novendiālis, f. novem nine + diēs day; cf. novemdial.]
A. adj. Lasting nine days.
1533Bellenden Livy i. xii. (S.T.S.) I. 72 The Romanis..Institute ane new sacrifice, callit in þai dais þe sacrifice nouendiall. 1600Holland Livy xxi. lxii. 429 For the raining of stones in Picenum, there was ordeined a Nouendial feast for nine dayes. [1880Brewer Reader's Hdbk., A Novendial holiday, nine days set apart by the Romans in expiation of a shower of stones.]
B. n.
a. Religious solemnities or sacrifices lasting for nine days, observed by the Romans.
b. A funeral ceremony held on the ninth day after the burial of the deceased person.
1600Holland Livy i. xxxi. 22 The Romanes..celebrated solemne publicke sacrifices for the space of nine daies, called a Novendiall. a1719Addison tr. Petronius Arbiter (1736) 129 Scissa kept a Novendial for his servant Misellus, whom he enfranchised after he was dead.
So † noˈvendinal a., taking place on the ninth day after the burial. Obs. rare—1.
1598R. Grenewey Tacitus, Ann. vi. i. (1622) 122 After a banket on the birth day of Augusta.., hee tearmed that a Nouendinall supper, or belonging to a mortuary. |