| 单词 | childermas day |
| 释义 | > as lemmasChildermas day 1. Childermas day. extracted from Childermasn. a. The festival of the Holy Innocents (28 December), commemorating the massacre of the male children of Bethlehem by Herod (Matthew 2:16). ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Holy Innocents' Day (28 December) > [noun] Childermas dayOE (Holy) Innocents' Day1549 Childermas1625 OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Parker) anno 963 Her forðferde Wulfstan diacon on cilda mæssedæge. OE West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Cambr. Univ. Libr.) ii. 13 (rubric) Ðys godspel sceal on cyldamæsse dæg. c1300 Life & Martyrdom Thomas Becket (Harl. 2277) (1845) l. 1997 Amorwe, a Childerne masse dai. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 49 Þe legende þat is i-rad a children masse day. c1450 (?a1300) Stations of Rome (Calig.) l. 119 On chyldermasse day yn cristemasse. 1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Les Innocens, as le jour des Innocens, childermas day at christmasse. 1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 32 That proues as ominous to the fisherman, as the beginning a voyage on the day when Childermas day fell, doth to the Mariner. 1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre ii. vi. 13 in Wks. II Hold thy hand, childe of wrath..make it not Childermasse day in thy fury. 1720 J. Strype Stow's Surv. of London (rev. ed.) I. i. xxv. 166/1 The Children every Childermas Day to go to Paul's Church. 1953 J. C. Marsh-Edwards in Catholic Times 24 Dec. 5/4 The Boy-Bishop of Childremas [sic] Day. b. The day of the week corresponding to the day on which the festival of the Holy Innocents falls, considered to be unlucky throughout the following year (cf. quot. 1625 at sense 3). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > [noun] > misfortune or ill-luck > fact of being inauspicious > unlucky or inauspicious day Childermas day1711 black-letter day1757 society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Holy Innocents' Day (28 December) > [noun] > day commemorating Childermas day1711 1711 J. Addison Spectator 8 Mar. No. 7. A little Boy..told her, that he was to go into Join-hand on Thursday... No Child,..you shall not begin upon Childermas-day; tell your Writing-Master that Friday will be soon enough. 1745 J. Swift Direct. to Servants 45 Friday and Childermas-day are too cross Days in the Week, and it is impossible to have good Luck on either of them. a1768 T. Secker Serm. Several Subj. (1771) V. vi. 128 That the day of the week, on which mass was annually performed in honour of these children, thence called Childermass day, was an unlucky one throughout the year. 1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 27 No important affair is taken in hand on Childermas day, and the sailors are heedful not to leave their port in the way of beginning a voyage under any consideration. 2001 J. McGowan Echoes Savage Land (2006) ix. 284 It is said that Dean Swift kept Friday and what he called Childermas Day as ‘two cross days in the week, and it is impossible to have good luck in either of them’. < as lemmas |
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