单词 | all-hallowtide |
释义 | > as lemmasAll-Hallowtide All-Hallowtide n. the period around All Saints' Day; (also) All Saints' Day. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > All Saints (1 November) > [noun] > season of All Hallows' tideOE All-Hallowtide1471 Hallow-tidea1500 Hollantide1573 All Saints' tide1587 1471 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 569 Whyche shall be a-bowght All Halow Tyed at the ferthest. 1572 L. Mascall tr. D. Brossard L'Art et Maniere de Semer iv, in Bk. Plant & Graffe Trees 16 Betwixt Alhallowtide and christmasse. c1623 in 5th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1876) 410/2 One entyre payment yearlie at Alhaloutyd. 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. p. ix I propose, Deo volente, to have the pleasure of seeing you in the great city, towards All-hallowtide. 1862 Dublin Univ. Mag. Feb. 241/1 The herbs..still retain their power at All-Hallow Tide, in furnishing truthful visions of their future husbands to superstitious damsels. 1912 C. A. Miles Christmas vii. 189 In the reign of Charles I. the young gentlemen of the Middle Temple were accustomed to reckon All Hallow Tide..the beginning of Christmas. 2003 N. J. Clark Story Irish Harp iii. 40 The feast of Samhain..is also known as All-Hallowtide (the first of November). < as lemmas |
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