everydayn.adj.

?c1400 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (BL Add. 10340) (1868) ii. pr. ii. l. 836 O þou man wher fore makest þou me gilty by þine euerydayes pleynynges [L. cotidianis..querelis].

c1450 (c1400) Bk. Vices & Virtues (Huntington) (1942) 108 (MED) Fair fader, oure euery daies bred [Fr. nostre pain cotidien] ȝyue vs to-day.

c1450 (c1400) Bk. Vices & Virtues (Huntington) (1942) 110 (MED) Oure echedaies bred..is þe eueridayes ȝifte þat God ȝyueþ to his chanounes euery day.

1594 O. B. Questions Profitable Concernings f. 32^v His euery daies exercise, was to cast and deuise strange inuentions.

1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 257 Good mariages are not chickens of euery dayes hatching; they happen good now and then by chance.

1666 S. Shaw Voice of One crying in Wilderness 199 Religion must not..intermeddle in their ordinary affairs, or worldly employments;..they do not count it a garment for every dayes wear.

1723 H. Elking Interest Great Brit. consider'd or Herring Fishery for Nat. Debts 20 In many other Countries, dry'd fish is every Days Meat, Winter and Summer.

1765 Ld. Chesterfield Lett. to Godson (1890) 181 Nothing but good sense and good qualitys can make you be loved. They are substantial, every days wear. Wit is for les jours de Gala.

1788 J. Trusler Habitable World Described II. 39 Ear-rings belong to the every days dress, but, on particular occasions, they wear bracelets.

1797 J. Cartwright Appeal Eng. Constit. iii. 17 That statutes are liable to be extremely imperfect is our every-days experience.

1818 Trial of Andrew M'Kinley App. 8 A pair of Breeches the cloth of which cost me 32s. pr. y^d. a very unfit article for every days wear they are fast changing appearance which will render me soon destitute of clothing.

1866 R. Sainthill Let. in Trans. Royal Hist. Soc. (1874) 3 330 The three personages had handsome and weighty gold chains for every day's wear to mark their dignities.

1798 C. Smith Young Philosopher III. vi. 138 Thy every days had been passed in measuring buckram; and thy Sundays in walking to Islington.

1854 M. Dods Early Lett. (1910) 65 They seem to use Sunday here very much as we use Saturday... Carts and everything go about just as on everydays.

1857 Sc. Rev. July 214 Theatres, operas, and musical bands, on everydays and Sundays, can regularly or occasionally be enjoyed gratis.

1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. (at cited word) Oh! I keeps they for Sundays, I don' put 'em on 'pon everydays.

1899 Leisure Hour Mar. 309/1 He had white hands that had never worked, and wore beautiful clothes that fitted him like a glove, even on everydays.

1944 in Sc. National Dict. (1952) III. at Every Sunday's like an every-day noo, the way folk work in their gairdens.

1990 I. MacNeacail in T. A. McKean Hebridean Song-maker (1997) ii. 84 His sermon morning and night in Gàidhlig was perfect, but if he was in the ordinary conversation on everydays he was lost!

1845 Boston Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 3 Dec. 356 Medicine..may be..a book in which he may read ‘strange matters’; but he will find in it everywhere problems of the every-day.

1934 West Saxon (Univ. of Southampton) Spring 49 There is, no doubt, a good deal to be said for the ordinary, the every-day, and the commonplace.

1993 Village Voice (N.Y.) 20 Apr. 68/1 Her songs revolve around the everyday: home, children, and dogs all figure prominently.

2020 G. E. Rees Unoffic. Brit. p. xii If you had been alive at the time [sc. the pre-industrial age], it would simply have been the everyday; you would not have considered yourself to be living in some sublime English Eden.

1851 C. Brontë Let. 12 Apr. (2000) II. 602 I should like to see..some chemisettes of small size..both of simple style for everyday and good quality for best.

1855 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. May 567/1 The life which, even in London, is made up of everydays and small events.

1873 Arthur's Illustr. Home Mag. May 303/1 I am vexed with girls saying: ‘Oh, it's good enough for everyday!’

1880 H. A. Duff Fragments of Verse 30 Such hours as mark the everydays of life.

1919 H. S. Canby Our House i. vii. 80 A vision of some final happiness that should be part of all his aspirations and all his plodding everydays.

1977 M. Helprin Refiner's Fire (1990) ii. i. 50 Manhattan's everyday was like the greatest of armadas, the choicest dramas of history, a million intensities.

1994 Sainsbury's Mag. Aug. 51/1 Recently, young women have rediscovered the big hat—for everyday, black felt sailors; for this summer's weddings and garden parties, big flowery confections.

2000 D. Adebayo My Once upon Time (2001) x. 213 No matter, I was happy enough speculating on the residents of the rides about me; their everydays, their weaknesses, their allegiances on Sports Day.

1597 T. Middleton Wisdome of Solomon Paraphr. Ep. sig. A4^v If the beames of your aspectes lighten the small moytie of a smaller implanting, I shall haue an euery-day-haruest, a fruition of content, a braunch of felicitie.

1612 J. Cotta Short Discouerie Dangers Ignorant Practisers Physicke i. ii. 18 The continuall vse of euery-day-glysters and other astringent medicines.

1647 J. Saltmarsh Sparkles of Glory 267 His fulness lives in an eternal every-day sabboth, while some live in little more than..one day in the week.

a1660 H. Hammond Wks. (1684) IV. 508 An every-day care for the drying up of the great fountain of Leprosie in the Heart.

1796 C. Lamb Let. 16 June in Lett. C. & M. A. Lamb (1975) I. 33 I am heartily sick of the every-day scenes of life.

1804 Bp. Lincoln in G. Rose Diaries (1860) II. 85 I do not doubt but you want constant every-day debaters.

1857 D. Livingstone Missionary Trav. S. Afr. Introd. 6 (note) Make religion the every-day business of your life.

1861 F. Nightingale Notes on Nursing (new ed.) 95 The everyday management of a sick room.

1880 J. Muirhead Inst. of Gaius & Rules of Ulpian Digest 591 Voluntary sale of a slave was of everyday occurrence.

1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. (at cited word) An ‘every-day horse’ is one that can work all the week long..not like a Parson's horse, which can only work on Sundays.

1939 Times 4 July 10/5 An islander, for whom peat-cutting, water-drawing, or fishing for the day's dinner are everyday jobs.

2015 Daily Tel. 2 Apr. 22/1 Protests are an everyday occurrence in China.

1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. lxxvi. sig. X6 The way to make Honour last, is to doe by it, as men doe by rich Iewels; not incommon them to the every day eye: but case them vp, and weare them but on Festivals.

1694 tr. Terence Eunuch ii, in tr. Terence Comedies 61 The most charming Look! From this Moment, I've done with the whole Sex besides. Your Every-day Lasses and Faces will ne're down again.

a1763 W. Shenstone Wks. Verse & Prose (1764) II. 182 Things of common concern..make no slight impression on every-day minds.

1781 S. Johnson Akenside in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets X. 4 This was no every-day writer.

1817 S. T. Coleridge Biographia Literaria 202 Persons of no every-day powers and acquirements.

1831 J. W. Croker in J. Boswell Life Johnson (new ed.) IV. 19 Every-day knowledge had the most of his just praise.

1845 J. H. Newman Ess. Devel. Christian Doctr. 249 Her every-day name..was the Catholic Church.

1847 A. Smith Christopher Tadpole (1848) xxxii. 277 [She] had shrunk from the every-day people in the parlour of the public-house.

1862 J. H. Burton Book-hunter 5 The vulgar everyday-world way of putting the idea.

1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) II. viii. 287 Treason is spoken of as an everyday matter.

1871 Harper's Mag. Feb. 449/1 People who have a cook..ought not to dine like everyday folks.

1927 Scotsman 24 Aug. 11/ 5 Sweeny after the first glorious burst, gave a very ‘every-day’ performance.

1955 Anderson (Indiana) Herald 22 Oct. 11/4 I don't see no need fer stirrin' up a big commotion jest over a common, ol', ever'day haircut.

2001 N.Y. Times 31 Oct. s2/5 These guys are not your run-of-the-mill, everyday pitchers.

a1640 P. Massinger City-Madam (1658) i. i. 27 Few great Ladies going to a Masque..out-shine ours [sc. fashions] in their every-day habits.

1696 ‘Ariadne’ She ventures & he Wins ii. i. 11 She will one time or other disgrace me, by coming in her every Day Cloaths; I am ashamed to call her Mother in them.

1771 Contempl. Man I. ii. v. 106 This was the Captain's Every-Day Dress; but on some particular Occasions, such as the Birth-Day of the King..; on such Days he always he always put on his Regimentals.

1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village I. 226 The every-day ribbands were coloured.

1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. xiii. 157 Mr. Quilp invested himself in his every-day garments.

1917 A. E. Barr Joan iv. 110 Should they put on their Sunday fineries of cloth skirts, Paisley shawls, wonderful bonnets, and kid gloves? This point was finally settled in favor of their everyday dress.

1982 B. MacLaverty Time to Dance (1985) 136 The polished toe-caps of his everyday shoes peeped out from underneath.

2006 G. Bowen Endless Knot 245 ‘I'll skip the mascara when I go to the funeral.’ After she'd changed into her everyday clothes, Glenda came back downstairs.

1813 Port Folio Mar. 280 Such inequalities and contrarieties were discovered in his every day character.

1826 Oriental Herald Dec. 569 There is nothing of the theatre about them—the ordinary theatre I should say, though all of them are somewhat artificial in their every-day behaviour—affecting to be unaffected.

1883 H. H. Kane in Harper's Mag. Nov. 945/2 I seemed to have left my every-day self in the..vestibule.

1914 C. D. Broad Perception, Physics & Reality i. 1 It is true that our everyday view of the world is not quite naïvely realistic, but that is what it would like to be.

1960 A. J. Schaffer Dis. Newborn p. vi/1 The situation of the pediatrician practising neonatology differs but little qualitatively from his everyday posture with respect to older infants and children.

2014 Atlantic Jan. 99/1 All the forms of expression that the people had already built up during the unrecorded history of their everyday speech.

1840 J. R. Lowell Love in Poet. Wks. (1879) 82 The every-dayness of this work-day world.

1862 Temple Bar 5 263 The every-dayness, the common-placeness of life oppressed me.

1892 Sat. Rev. 26 Mar. 364/1 The everydayness of this nineteenth century.

1904 M. E. Durham Through Lands of Serb 289 Their dull ‘everydayness’.

1954 L. MacNeice Autumn Sequel 19 The need for everydayness.

2016 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 17 July (Stella Mag.) 58 I come back with two ingredients that are almost dull in their everydayness: chicken and lemons.