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单词 all saints day
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All Saints' Dayn.

Brit. /ˌɔːl ˈseɪnts ˌdeɪ/, U.S. /ˌɔl ˈseɪnts ˌdeɪ/, /ˌɑl ˈseɪnts ˌdeɪ/
Forms: 1500s All Saintes Daie, 1500s All Sayntes Day, 1600s All Saintes Day, 1600s–1800s All-Saints Day, 1700s All-Saints-Day, 1700s– All Saints Day, 1700s– All Saints' Day.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: all adj., saint n., day n.
Etymology: < all adj. + the genitive plural of saint n. + day n. Compare earlier All Hallows' Day n. at All-Hallows n. Compounds 1 and the foreign-language parallels cited at that entry, and also earlier All-Hallows n. 2, All Saints n., and All Souls' Day n.
Christian Church.
In the Western Church: 1 November, a festival commemorating all the saints; = All Hallows' Day n. at All-Hallows n. Compounds 1.All Saints' Day was originally celebrated on the first Sunday after Pentecost, the date still observed by the Eastern Orthodox Church; the November date was adopted by the Western Church during the time of Pope Gregory III (d. 741).
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1562 in E. M. Thompson & W. H. Frere Registrum M. Parker (1928) II. 706 Vppon all saintes daie last.
1565 J. Stow Summarie Eng. Chrons. sig. א.vii (table) All sayntes day. at Wakefield.
1634 in B. Cusack Everyday Eng. 1500–1700 (1998) 138 Vpon All Saintes day last past.
1670 C. Cotton tr. G. Girard Hist. Life Duke of Espernon x. 514 Upon All-Saints day he thundred out his Excommunication against the Lieutenant of the Guards.
1744 B. Willis Let. 22 Oct. in A. P. Jenkins Corr. T. Secker (1991) 121 I think of coming to Oxford against All Saints day.
1778 G. Tollet in S. Johnson & G. Steevens Plays of Shakspeare (rev. ed.) I. 142 On All-Saints-Day the poor people in Staffordshire..go from parish to parish a souling as they call it.
1834 W. M. Thackeray Let. (1945) I. 277 All Saints' day was spent in..wandering through the town for exercise.
1892 Atlantic Monthly Mar. 291/2 The evening before Allhallows, or All Saints' Day, was commonly called ‘Teinla’ night.
1931 Tablet 14 Nov. 638/2 The annual retreat at the Beda College ended on All Saints' Day.
1993 Guardian 2 Nov. i. 1/4 Its employees were given the day off for All Saints Day.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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