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seventh-day
(Also 5–6 north. sevent, -ynt.)
†1. = week's-mind. Obs.
1462Test. Ebor. II. 256, I wille that I be brought forthe at the day of beriall as my degre askis withouten any sevent⁓day. 1527Ibid. V. 238, I witt a quarter wheate and ij barils bere to be delt in the kirke of Hornese opon my sevynt daye.
2. a. The seventh day of the week, Saturday; the (Jewish) Sabbath; transf. Sunday. Also attrib.
1692T. Watson Body Divinity 332 The old Seventh-day Sabbath (which was the Jewish Sabbath) is abrogated. 1710O. Sansom Acc. Life 226 On the Seventh Day we went to Youghall, and on the First Day had two Meetings there. 1870Conway Earthward Pilgr. xxviii. 345 The sanctity of the Seventh Day is the survival of the old worship of Ashtaroth. 1872O. W. Holmes Organ-Blower 27 When the seventh day's sunshine falls Through rainbowed windows on the walls. 1885R. Buchanan Matt iii, I thought her ordinary costume far more becoming than her seventh-day finery.
b. In the designations of bodies of Christians who observe the seventh day of the week (Saturday) as the principal day of rest and religious observance.
Seventh-day Adventists: a millenarian sect holding sabbatarian principles. Seventh-day Baptist: see Sabbatarian n. 3. † Seventh-day man: see Traskite.
1684Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) I. 302 The seventh day minister, in Newgate. 1694E. Chamberlayne Pres. St. Eng. (ed. 18) iii. i. 378 Traskitts, now called Seventh-day-men, who keep the Jewish Sabboth. 1784Backus Ch. Hist. New Eng. II. Index 15 Seventh-day Baptists. 1860Advent Rev. & Sabbath Herald (Washington) 23 Oct. 179/2 Resolved, that we take the name of Seventh-day Adventists. 1876Direct. Amer. Publ. 19 in Amer. Catal. (1880), Seventh Day Adventists. 1880Libr. Univ. Knowl. (U.S.) s.v., Traces of seventh-day keepers are found in the days of Gregory I. 1931Times Lit. Suppl. 19 Feb. 139/2 Seventh Day Adventist missions. 1956R. Macaulay Towers of Trebizond v. 49 The local Anglican priest..would give him news of the Seventh-Day Adventist Mission. 1977Hongkong Standard 12 Apr. 5/1 Seventh Day Adventist Church Conference. |