eveningn.¹adv.int.

Brit.

/ˈiːvnɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈivnɪŋ/

Forms: Old English æfenung (rare), Old English æfning (rare), Old English æfnnunge (dative, probably transmission error), Old English æfnung, early Middle English æfnuncg, Middle English eueningue, Middle English evynnyng, Middle English heuenyng, Middle English hevenynge, Middle English–1500s eueninge, Middle English–1500s euenyng, Middle English–1500s euenynge, Middle English–1500s evenynge, Middle English–1600s euening, Middle English–1600s eveninge, Middle English 1600s evenyng, 1500s euennynge, 1500s 1600s eu'ning, 1500s– evening, 1600s eevning, 1600s–1700s ev'ning, 1800s– evenin (regional and nonstandard), 1800s– evenin' (regional and nonstandard); English regional 1800s ebenin, 1900s evenun', 1900s– eveling (Devon); also Scottish pre-1700 e'ening, pre-1700 eining, pre-1700 euining, pre-1700 evennyng, pre-1700 evining, pre-1700 evinnyng, pre-1700 evynnyng, pre-1700 ewennyng, pre-1700 ewining, pre-1700 ewinnyng, pre-1700 ewyning, pre-1700 ewynning, pre-1700 ewynnyng, 1700s eenin, 1800s e'ening, 1800s–1900s e'enin.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: even v.², -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: < even v.² + -ing suffix¹. Compare even n.¹

A. n.¹

a. The close of day, esp. the time from about 6 p.m., or sunset if earlier, to bedtime; the period between afternoon and night. Also in early use: †the process or fact of dusk falling; the time about sunset (obsolete). Cf. morning n. 1a, even n.¹ 1.In quot. OE¹ in on evening at Phrases 1.In quot. OE² rendering classical Latin crepusculum crepuscule n., in this instance denoting the twilight of dawn, which the glossator has misunderstood as the twilight of evening.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > evening > [noun]

evenOE

eventideOE

eveningOE

eventimeOE

evea1250

evetimec1300

even whilea1375

evetidea1382

supper timec1390

supper whilea1425

forenight1513

evening-tide1521

supperwardc1563

after-supperc1596

Vesperugo1600

vesper1613

far-day1650

eveg1675

evg1777

dew-falla1822

the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > [noun] > making or becoming dark > at night

eveningOE

the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > evening > [noun] > twilight, dusk, or nightfall

nighteOE

evengloamOE

eveningOE

gloamingc1000

darknessa1382

twilighting1387

crepusculum1398

crepusculec1400

darkc1400

twilight1412

sky1515

twinlightc1532

day-going?1552

cockshut1592

shutting1598

blind man's holiday1599

candle-lighting1605

gropsing1606

nightfall1612

dusk1622

torchlighta1656

candlelight1663

crepuscle1665

shut1667

mock-shade1669

close1696

duskish1696

glooma1699

setting1699

dimmit1746

to-fall of the day or night1748

darklins1767

even-close1781

mirkning1790

gloaming-shot1793

darkening1814

bat-flying time1818

gloama1821

between-light1821

settle1822

dayfall1823

evenfall1825

onfall1825

owl-hoot1832

glooming1842

darkfall1884

smokefall1936

dusk-light1937

OE Ælfric De Temporibus Anni (Cambr. Gg.3.28) (2009) iii. 80 Þonne seo sunne gæð on æfnunge under ðyssere eorðan, þonne bið þære eorðan bradnys betwux us & ðære sunnan.

OE Aldhelm Glosses (Brussels 1650) in L. Goossens Old Eng. Glosses of MS Brussels, Royal Libr. 1650 (1974) 159 [Roscido facessante] crepusculo : deorcunge uel æfnnunge.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 15183 Riht to þan euening þa fleh Cadwalan þe king.

c1300 St. James Great (Laud) l. 228 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 40 (MED) In þe eueningue riȝht Seint Ieme cam to him ride.

c1350 Psalter (BL Add. 17376) in K. D. Bülbring Earliest Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter (1891) ciii. 23 (MED) Man shal go forþ to his werke, and to his wircheing [L. operationem] vn-to þe euenynge.

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. xxvii. 57 When the euenyng was maad, there came a riche man fro Armathia.

c1400 ( G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe (Cambr. Dd.3.53) (1872) ii. §6. 20 (heading) To knowe the spring of the dawyng & the ende of the euenyng, the which ben called the two crepusculus.

c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) i. l. 2732 (MED) Þe heuenyng be-gonne for to dirke.

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 144 Evenynge, þe laste parte of þe day.

a1500 (?c1450) Bone Florence (1976) l. 1456 To hyt drewe to þe euenynge.

1589 R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations i. 97 They cut the branches euery euening, because they are seared vp in the day by the heate of the Sunne.

1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII iii. ii. 227 I shall fall Like a bright exhalation in the Euening .

1652 French Intelligencer No. 15. 111 About 8: in the Evening, they took their leave of these Madaimoselles.

1747 W. Wetenhall Hounslow-Heath 8 In higher Life the Evenings often pass, With a gay Pipe, and recreating Glass.

?1795 H. Macneill Scotland's Scaith 19 The tears that now ilk e'ening Bleach'd her lately crimson'd cheek!

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xviii. 122 On the evening of the same day.

1872 J. Morley Voltaire iii. 104 People met..at the supper at nine in the evening.

1919 A. E. Dobbs Educ. & Social Movements 1700–1850 ii. iv. 156 The Royal Lancasterian Free School..had an elementary class for factory lads three evenings a week.

1962 A. Sampson Anat. Brit. xxvii. 450 He likes going home early,..and plays bridge or scrabble in the evenings.

1971 K. Awoonor This Earth, my Brother ii. 26 The evening had come with the suddenness that it does in the tropics.

2015 P. Hawkins Girl on Train 101 I spent yesterday evening sitting on the sofa in jogging bottoms and a T-shirt.

b. With wider reference: the period between midday and night; the afternoon. Now regional.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > afternoon > [noun]

evenOE

overnoonOE

midovernoona1325

afternoonc1330

mid-afternoona1400

undern1470

after-dinner1576

postmeridian1583

evening1587

post meridiem1647

none1656

noon1667

postnoon1686

aft1772

p.m.1776

after1906

pip emma1912

arvo1933

pee em1933

afty1966

1587 R. Hakluyt tr. R. de Laudonnière Notable Hist. Foure Voy. Florida f. 19^v I embarked my selfe about three or foure of the clocke in the euening.

1593 W. Perkins Direct. for Govt. Tongue vi. 33 Our common formes of salutations are commendable: which are of divers sortes: as when one meetes another, God save you:..in the morning, God give you a good morning: after noone, God give you a good evening.

1643 G. Torriano tr. A. de Cardenas Speech to his Majestie at Oxf. 4 A Ship of your Majesties..about one or two of the clock the same evening..was in a thievish and Piratick manner stollen out of the said harbour.

1788 in G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. (1879) 136 The meeting held on Monday evening last was adjourned to be holden to-morrow Evening at three of the Clock.

1806 M. Lewis Jrnl. 21 May in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1991) VII. 163 It was one in the evening before we returned with him.

1876 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Tom Sawyer i. 19 He'll play hookey this evening.

1880 G. W. Cable Grandissimes xiv. 94 This evening (the Creoles never say afternoon) about a half-hour before sunset.

1966 G. W. Turner Eng. Lang. in Austral. & N.Z. viii. 164 In Queensland evening may be used to refer to anytime after midday.

1971 H. Orton & M. V. Barry Surv. Eng. Dial. II. iii. 773 Today, between 2 and 4 p.m., so . . . [Monmouthshire] This evening.

1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 117/1 Evening, the afternoon.

c. Such a period as characterized by the weather, conditions, events, etc., experienced during that time.

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a1591 H. Smith Gods Arrowe (1593) sig. A3^v You wil spend away some part of winters weary nights & Summers plesant Euenings, in perusing ouer this worthy booke.

1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing ii. iii. 38 How stil the euening is, As husht on purpose to grace harmonie.

1673 W. Hooke Priviledge Saints on Earth 141 That must needs be a very sad Evening, especially in respect of trouble, great oppositions and commotions.

1748 S. Richardson Clarissa V. xxx. 246 Two of these women gave me a great deal of trouble: And the third, I am confident, will forgive a merry evening.

1798 Monthly Visitor May 81 The evening was calm and serene.

1826 Spirit Eng. Mag. 15 Mar. 475/1 He had seen Evan Davies loitering on the road to Towyn on that terrible evening.

1894 Southern Cultivator June 303/2 One of these lovely evenings, when Elizabeth's heart was as light as the little rippling waves around the boat, she and Guy drifted far away over the blue waters.

1911 H. I. Hancock Dick Prescott's Third Year at West Point xvii. 185 Yet spoiled as his evening was, Prescott did his best to make it a bright occasion.

1990 Philadelphia Inquirer 20 Oct. d1/6 It was a beautiful evening.., if you like clear, coolish, dry northern California nights.

2002 Time 20 May 47/3 It's been a busy evening for the mayor, what with swearing in two school board members, giving three speeches and dropping by a book signing.

2. figurative. The latter part of something, esp. a person's life.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > end or conclusion > [noun] > the latter part

eveningOE

enda1200

eventide?c1225

finea1350

tail1377

latter (last) enda1382

issue1484

latter day?1498

waning1561

last days1572

heel1584

sunsetting1593

fall1596

lag-end1598

posterior1598

sunset1599

dotage1606

exit1615

stern1623

waning timea1639

last1683

heel piecea1764

shank1828

tail-end1845

tailpiece1869

tag1882

teatime1913

end-point1921

OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) xv. 151 Ure hælend ðrowade on þære sixtan ylde þyssere worulde, seo yld is geteald to æfnunge þises ateorigendlican middaneardes.

a1500 Hymnal in R. S. Loomis Medieval Stud. in Memory G. S. Loomis (1927) 445 (MED) Thys world envyryng toward hys end and fyne, Endarkyd by synne approchyng his evenyng.

1589 T. Nashe Anat. Absurditie sig. ¶iii^v Time, wel maist thou exult, that in the euening of thy age, thou conceiuedst such a subiect of wonder, & Peace.

1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. i. vi. §9. 97 The long day of mankinde drawing fast towards an euening.

1654 True & Perfect Dutch-diurnall No. 15. 118 I Iohn Lilburn of London Gent. being aged 39 yeers, now in the evening of my life do here ordain this to be my last wil and testament.

1703 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion II. vi. 116 He was a Person of great Courage, Honour, and Fidelity, and not well known till his Evening.

1725 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. iv. 116 The sad evening of a stormy life.

1812 P. B. Shelley Addr. Irish People 8 The king of Great Britain has arrived at the evening of his days.

1865 E. B. Pusey Eirenicon 3 To..consecrate the evening of my life to the unfolding of some of the deep truths of God's Holy Word.

1935 Pacific Affairs 8 111 The British Empire, in the evening of its power, obliged to maintain its territorial and economic possessions.

1966 Rev. Politics 28 126 Leopold disapproved sharply of most of the rash measures that clouded the evening of Joseph's reign.

a2003 H. R. Trevor-Roper Europe's Physician (2006) xxxi. 334 His life, he pointed out, was now in its evening, and so he could not afford to wait.

†3. English regional (Oxfordshire). In plural. A portion of grass or grain given by a lord to a feudal tenant at the end of a day's harvesting, as a reward for the work performed. Obsolete.Quot. c1325 shows the English word in a Latin context; it can be translated as ‘For an entire virgate (virgate n. 1) of the same tenure he was to have livery (livery n. 5a) at vespers, which is called “evenyngs”: as much as a mower could make by his scythe, and carry home by himself’.

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c1325 in W. Kennett Parochial Antiq. (1818) I. 575 Virgata terræ integra ejusdem tenuræ habebit liberam ad vesperas quæ vocatur Evenyngs tantam sicut falcator potest per falcem levare et domum portare per ipsam.

1695 W. Kennett Parochial Antiq. Gloss. Evenyngs, the delivery at Even or Night of a certain portion of grass or corn to a custumary Tenant, who performs his wonted service of mowing or reaping for his Lord, and at the end of his days work receives such a quantity of the grass or corn to carry home with him as a gratuity or encouragement of his bounden service.

4. An event or social gathering held in the evening; (formerly) esp. an evening event in which guests are received and entertained in one's home (now chiefly historical). Cf. soirée n.

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society > leisure > social event > social gathering > [noun] > evening gathering

conversazione1740

evening party1742

sociable1750

evening1791

soirée1793

Gregory1804

veillée1825

tertulia1828

swarry1837

social evening1844

1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1763 I. 253 On Wednesday, August 3, we had our last social evening at the Turk's Head coffee-house, before my setting out for foreign parts.

1847 J. Conolly Constr. & Govt. Lunatic Asylums iii. 55 A few years ago it was the custom to have a music evening once a week, which was looked forward to with great pleasure by both the male and female patients.

1876 M. M. Grant Sun-maid II. xvii. 213 Gilbert placed first in his heart..the enjoyment of those ‘little evenings’, as his aunt termed them.

1881 H. James Portrait of Lady II. xvii. 206 Mrs. Osmond having an ‘evening’—she had taken the Thursday of each week.

1948 A. Waugh Unclouded Summer iv. 65 A gala evening where the men would discard their maillots for starched linen.

1985 Noûs 19 303 Suppose you and I plan to host an evening of poker for several friends.

2003 C. MacCabe Godard iii. 150 Bitsch..met up again with Truffaut and Rivette at the famous evenings in the Studio Parnasse, where Rivette always won the quizzes.

2008 R. Moore & G. Owen My Word is my Bond (2009) xi. 281 I remember going to the Fenice Theatre..for a tribute evening to Ingrid Bergman.

5. British colloquial. A newspaper published later than a morning newspaper, typically so as to be ready for sale or delivery from midday onwards; = evening paper n. at Compounds 2.

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society > communication > journalism > journal > newspaper > [noun] > evening

evening paper1720

evening?1796

eveninger1944

?1796 C. Stuart Let. in Corr. George, Prince of Wales (1971) VIII. 393 It will be in the chief evenings of to night, and the mornings of tomorrow.

1892 J. Miller Workingman's Paradise viii. 86 Bring out a small-sized, neat, first-rate daily for a ha'penny, threepence a week, and knock the penny evenings off their feet.

1920 Editor & Publisher 31 July 10/3 There are comparatively few British provincial ‘evenings’ which regularly devote as large a portion of their space to politics..as do their morning contemporaries.

1967 ‘G. Douglas’ Death went Hunting v. 36 We've missed the final edition of the local evening now.

2009 P. Hitchens Broken Compass iii. 25 Murders that would once have featured in national newspapers are now buried inside regional evenings.

B. adv.

In the evening. Now only in phrases, esp. morning and evening at morning adv. Compare evenings adv.

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?a1475 Ludus Coventriae (1922) 37 (MED) I pray to god..that he me kepe in such A plyght, mornynge, hevenynge, mydday and none.

1560–1 in R. Adam Edinb. Rec. (1899) II. 121 For candill, mornyng and eining xij d.

1611 Bible (King James) Psalms lv. 17 Euening and morning, and at noone will I pray, and crie aloud.

a1704 T. Brown Dispensary in 3rd Vol. Wks. (1708) iii. 90 Take one Spoonful of it Morning and Evening.

1794 M. Robinson Julia St. Laurence I. 147 She dresses three or four times, morning and evening.

1811 Monthly Repository Dec. 731/1 I preached in the Unitarian Baptist meeting-house, morning, afternoon and evening.

1888 N.Y. Times 12 Nov. 8/2 He spoke twice, morning and evening.

1909 Index 18 Sept. 12/1 Her engagement is for one week and will include two performances a day, afternoon and evening.

1998 P. Robb M (1999) 14 [He] used a portrait canvas as a tablecloth and ate off it morning and evening.

2016 Sunday Times (Nexis) 17 Apr. 10 I was on site every day, morning and evening, to check quality.

C. int.

colloquial. Expressing good wishes on meeting or parting during the evening; ‘good evening’.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > courteous expressions [interjection] > expressions of greeting > at specific times of day

good morrowc1405

good morningc1450

morrowa1625

evening1886

afternoon1893

1886 E. D. E. N. Southworth To His Fate xv. 170 Ebenin', young mist'ess. Ebenin', ole marster. Ebenin', Miss Cafferine.

1898 A. Thomas Alabama i. 12 Evenin', Mistah Armstrong, evenin'.

1912 J. Masefield Widow in Bye St. iv. 55 ‘Evening,’ she said. ‘Good evening.’

1965 I. Fleming Man with Golden Gun v. 70 The eyes flirted. ‘Evenin'.’ ‘Good. Could I have a Red Stripe?’

2001 S. Brett Death on Downs iii. 20 Evening, Will, old man. Pint of the usual.

Phrases

P1. In prepositional phrases (without article), as at (also †in, †on, before, till, etc.) evening.

ΚΠ

OE Ælfric De Temporibus Anni (Cambr. Gg.3.28) (2009) iii. 80 Þonne seo sunne gæð on æfnunge under ðyssere eorðan, þonne bið þære eorðan bradnys betwux us & ðære sunnan.

OE Ælfric Homily (Hatton 114) in J. C. Pope Homilies of Ælfric (1968) II. 741 Hwæt þa on æfninge com Godes engel mid leohte to Alexandre, and gelædde hine to Ermen.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 6385 (MED) It come at morn and euening.

?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) ii. l. 7588 On mornes long to lie, surfeyte in euenyng & luf of licchorie..þe Bretons..forsoke suilk party.

1531 Prymer of Salysbury Use f. lxxiii. I paye vnto the thys lytell tribute on mornynge & on euenynge.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 587 According as the said stars begin either to shine out or bee hidden..at evening after the Sunne is set, they..are named Matutine or Vespertine.

a1640 J. Ball Power of Godlines (1657) 366 Thus it is noted of Isaac, that in evening he went forth to pray or meditate.

1722 J. Bingham Origines Ecclesiasticæ IX. xxi. i. 242 Victorinus Petavionensis..speaks of several Sorts of Fasts observed among Christians, some of which were only till the Ninth Hour, some till Evening.

1881 W. W. Greener Gun & its Devel. 535 Mr. Campbell..succeeded in bagging 220 grouse by evening.

1925 D. Grayson Adv. in Understanding x. 210 We are blessed with an open square or common, which sometimes at evening,..has a sweetness that reminds me of the country.

1990 Star-Ledger (Newark) 28 Oct. v. 19/4 Capt. Jim Hull hung in until evening when a mate hooked a tuna on baitcasting tackle.

2014 Leicester Mercury (Nexis) 3 Feb. 16 Keyham is normal before evening, but what happens next comes down to a simple question: do you believe in the impossible wonder that is ghosts?

P2. of an evening: in the evening, during the evening; esp. habitually in the evening, each evening. Formerly also †in an evening.

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c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) l. 5017 (MED) In an euening þai com to þe cite, Þat hye wiþ-outen aperceiued nar he.

?1473 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Recuyell Hist. Troye (1894) I. lf. 115 He sped hym so that he arryued in an euenyng at the castell of arciancie.

a1500 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (Hunterian) (1980) ii. 258 (MED) It fel in a euenynge he rombyd alone vndir hys wodys-syde be hys place.

1569 R. Grafton Chron. I. vii. 166 He was slaine or sticked in an Euening amongest his knightes.

1646 S. Marshall Def. Infant-baptism 203 The Passeover was to be eaten in an evening.

1789 Amer. Museum Dec. 476/1 You know how well pleased we all are, when of an evening you tell us some pretty story.

1861 Ploughing & Sowing v. 246 [They are] often not allowed a candle in the kitchen, by which, those who can read might read their Bibles in an evening.

1917 H. Garland Son of Middle Border 47 Often of an evening, especially in the winter time, father took his seat beside the fire.

1952 T. Armstrong Adam Brunskill viii. 260 There's a ripe young lass somewhere upbank as keeps house for her father. He's usually out boozing till late of an evening.

2005 C. Cleave Incendiary 236 I mean I've been thinking about it a lot what with not having much to do of an evening.

P3. this evening: the evening of today. Chiefly in adverbial use: during the evening of today.

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1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. f. l^v/2 Yf we were good men of armes we shulde drinke this euenynge with the frenche lordes.

1553 Duke of Northumberland in W. B. Scoones Four Cent. Eng. Lett. (1880) 22 Wofull was the newes I receyved this evenynge.

a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) iii. vi. 73 Ber. But you must not now slumber in it. Par. Ile about it this euening.

1666 S. Pepys Diary 24 Dec. (1972) VII. 420 I this evening did buy me a pair of green spectacles, to see whether they will help my eyes or no.

1711 J. Swift Lett. (1767) III. 151 It rained so this evening again, that I thought I should hardly be able to get a dry hour to walk home in.

1769 J. Woodforde Diary 5 Dec. (1924) I. 94 A strange man was found this evening in my father's little house.

1823 E. James Acct. Exped. Rocky Mts. I. 188 Several Canadians..came this evening to dance and sing before us..in celebration of the termination of the year.

1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda II. iv. xxxiii. 346 This evening is the Sabbath..and I go to the Shool.

1918 W. Owen Let. 19 Aug. (1967) 569 I rushed off a note in time for this evening's post.

1921 Judge (N.Y.) 22 Oct. 25/3 ‘We have several famous movie stars dining with us this evening,’ whispered the waiter.

1979 M. Matshoba Call me not Man (1987) 120 By the way, Thandi. I didn't tell you we're having a get-together here this evening.

2003 C. N. Adichie Purple Hibiscus (2004) 152 I called Doctor Nduoma before I left, though, and he said he will come by this evening.

P4.

evening out n. an evening spent away from home in social or leisure pursuits; cf. out adv. 14b(b).

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > [noun] > a period of > day or night

holidaya1400

play-day1558

playing day1575

non Le1636

whole holiday1753

rest day1800

Sunday out1837

day off1853

evening out1870

stop-day1879

night off1885

night out1890

off1926

1870 C. E. L. Riddell Austin Friars I. iv. 86 Two or three friends dropping in to supper; occasional ‘evenings out’.

1928 V. Delmar Bad Girl i. xi. 120 You go to shows and you dress up snappy for your evenings out.

2000 I. Edward-Jones My Canapé Hell (2001) iii. 55 In short it was a crap evening out.

Compounds

C1.

a. General attributive with the sense ‘of, belonging to, or occurring during the evening’.

ΚΠ

1534 G. Joye in tr. Dauids Psalter f. 155 My dayes are lyke the eueninge clowde: for I am witherd awaye lyke haye.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Esdras viii. 72 I sat still full of heuines vntill the euenynge sacrifice.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) iv. ii. 17 Now must we..giue some euening Musique to her eare.

1651 W. Davenant Gondibert ii. i. 101 Sunk neer his Evening Region was the Sun.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 111 The cool Evening-breeze the Meads renews.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. iv. 141 A Shepherd's Groom Surveys his Ev'ning Flocks returning Home.

1709 A. Pope Winter in Poet. Misc.: 6th Pt. vi. 748 No grateful Dews descend from Ev'ning Skies.

1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks II. v. 282 We took our Evening-Walk in the Fields.

1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 465. ¶5 Soon as the Evening Shades prevail, The Moon takes up the wondrous Tale.

1726 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xix. 83 A day-devourer, and an ev'ning-spy!

1728 A. Pope Dunciad ii. 56 At early dawn to drop Her evening cates before his neighbour's shop.

a1763 W. Shenstone Wks. Verse & Prose (1764) I. 5 I saw my friends in ev'ning circles meet.

1804 T. Jefferson Writings (1830) IV. 19 My evening prospects now hang on the slender thread of a single life.

1870 C. Dickens Edwin Drood iv. 24 I have been..wasting my evening conversation on the desert air.

1901 Country Life Illustr. 31 Aug. 266/2 Honeysuckles give out their scents to the evening air.

1945 N. Coward Diary 3 July (2000) 34 After a drink I took them to the evening rehearsal.

1987 R. Manning Corridor of Mirrors xiv. 144 My father sometimes used to ask me to post letters by the evening collection.

2008 S. Armitage Gig (2009) 81 We watch Chinese water deer and barn owls in the evening light.

evening hymn n.

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1586 Praise of Musicke (title page) God is delighted with the morning & euening hymns of the church.

1828 T. Flint Life & Adventures Arthur Clenning I. iii. 154 She joined her sweet voice to his in an evening hymn.

2009 Agric. Hist. Rev. 57 145/1 Virtually every aspect of school life is covered, from curriculum to playground games and from morning prayers to evening hymns.

evening meal n.

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the world > food and drink > food > meal > [noun] > evening meal or supper

supperc1300

collationc1305

mid-dinnera1500

Sunday suppera1580

supper1598

evening meal1620

late dinner1649

ordinary suppera1661

petit souper1751

souper1787

ball supper1794

tray supper1825

kitchen supper1837

bump supper1845

evenmeat1848

tea-dinner1862

luncheon1903

1620 D. Calderwood Def. Arguments against kneeling in receiving Sacramentall Elements ii. 11 It is true, that in our language, this word, Supper, signifieth onely the evening meale.

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xi. 72 We set about preparing our evening meal.

1958 Listener 10 July 68/2 A time when many of us are either cooking or eating our evening meal.

2001 Org. Gardening Apr. 42/1 The couple take their evening meals on a backyard bluestone terrace.

evening party n.

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society > leisure > social event > social gathering > [noun] > evening gathering

conversazione1740

evening party1742

sociable1750

evening1791

soirée1793

Gregory1804

veillée1825

tertulia1828

swarry1837

social evening1844

1742 Universal Spectator 17 Apr. 3/3 Ranelaugh House.., where the Beau Monde form their Morning and Evening Parties.

1816 J. Austen Emma II. xvi. 299 Dinner-parties and evening-parties were made for him.

1879 F. W. Robinson Coward Conscience I. ii. vii. 256 The guests..had overflowed into the hall, where they were talking, laughing, and flirting in true evening-party fashion.

2014 H. Browne Honeymoon Hotel xiv. 200 An evening party, with a live band and candlelight and guests in black tie, brought an old-fashioned glamour to the whole place.

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† evening bird n. Obsolete rare a gecko.

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1884 Girl's Own Paper 12 Jan. 227/3 The gecko..is sometimes known as the ‘Evening Bird’.

evening class n. a class held in the evening, esp. as part of a series of classes forming a course for adults who wish to pursue a new skill, interest, or qualification.

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society > education > teaching > means of teaching > [noun] > class or course > types of

summer session1594

evening class1762

summer school1793

training course1822

shop class1844

elective1850

optional1855

night class1870

correspondence class1876

Chautauqua1884

correspondence course1902

gut1902

holiday course1906

shop1912

pud1917

training seminar1917

film school1929

day school1931

refresher1939

farm shop1941

survey course1941

weekend course1944

crash programme1947

sandwich course1955

thick sandwich1962

module1966

bird course1975

1762 W. Smith Additional Disc. & Ess. App. ii. iv. 103 The great truths of Christianity cannot fail of a favourable reception on the Sundays, whether they come from the masters in the evening classes, or from the pulpit.

1835 Belfast News Let. 23 Jan. There will be an evening class in the Irish for those whose occupations may not admit of their attending during the day.

1879 ‘E. Garrett’ House by Wks. II. 188 Aunt Barbara..took her to the evening classes of the Art School.

1932 Washington Post 18 Sept. S6/2 Strayer College will begin..its evening classes in C.P.A. accounting on September 26.

1959 Bookseller 24 Oct. 728/3 20 evening class students have called at a bookshop, all asking for the same title.

2004 Nat. Health Nov. 15/1 Taking an evening class, or going out to a nice restaurant when we're more used to food-court fare can do wonders for our confidence.

evening dress n. (a) (as a count noun) a dress intended for formal evening wear; (b) (as a mass noun) clothing suitable for formal wear during the evening, esp. as distinct from the more casual styles of day wear.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > for specific purpose > evening

evening dress1782

evening wear1800

wampum and warpaint1876

formal1941

1782 Beauties of Fielding 192 The ladies..will often become foils to themselves, as appears by the morning and evening dresses of a woman of fashion.

1880 ‘Mrs. Forrester’ Roy & Viola I. 11 ‘Have you no evening-dress’ asks Netta.

1936 E. A. Baker Hist. Eng. Novel VII. iii. 186 Evening dress in any colour that suited the fancy of the wearer was discarded for the black coat.

1970 Times 6 Nov. 1/5 News readers at B.B.C. Leeds have been told to wear evening dress at night.

2013 W. Wallace Sacred River (2014) xlv. 201 The Fleury sisters, their faces powdered white, were in evening dresses, limp satins that looked as if they'd expired from the heat.

evening-dressed adj. dressed for a formal evening occasion; wearing evening dress or an evening dress.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > other

slitteredc1380

tatteredc1380

accoutredc1540

suiteda1592

undressed1605

uniforma1626

full-dressed1731

tucky1748

underdresseda1784

costumed1820

décolleté1831

fancy dressed1836

winter-clad1836

sacked1847

evening-dressed1848

mufti1853

tailor-made1896

swim-suited1955

1848 Morning Chron. 15 Feb. 5/2 Evening-dressed and white-cravatted individuals.

1896 Westm. Gaz. 15 Feb. 3/2 An evening-dressed audience.

1933 P. Godfrey Back-stage xiv. 179 An evening-dressed gentleman.

2004 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 2 Oct. 4 The Hilton bar filled with nattily attired young men and evening-dressed women.

† evening-end n. Mining Obsolete (apparently) the western end of an excavation.

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1693 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 17 741 This Work..had been wrought from the Day to the Evening-end of the said Work Forty Fathoms..; the Seam or Vein of Copper-Ore then was left above three quarters of a yard thick of good Ore, which Seam or Vein did go from the Evening-end to the Morning-end of the said Work.

† evening flower n. [after South African Dutch avondbloem (see aandblom n.)] Botany Obsolete any plant of the southern African genus Hesperantha (family Iridaceae), the members of which have sword-shaped leaves and star-shaped flowers which usually open in the evening; cf. aandblom n.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > iris and related flowers > allied flowers

ixia1785

tiger-flower1797

Babiana1801

evening flower1801

watsonia1801

Sparaxis1836

montbretia1846

Spanish iris1863

schizostylis1864

romulea1865

Tigridia1866

kaffir lily1884

acidanthera1894

peacock flower1897

1801 J. Barrow Acct. Trav. Interior S. Afr. 1797–8 I. i. 25 The modest Ixia Cinnamomea, of which are two varieties, one called here the Cinnamon, and the other the evening, flower.

1807 Curtis's Bot. Mag. 26 1054 (heading) Hesperantha Cinnamomea. The Cinnamon Evening-Flower.

1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. Evening flower, Hesperantha.

† evening glade n. Astronomy Obsolete the zodiacal light, seen after sunset.

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1689 R. Hooke Diary 1 Feb. in R. T. Gunther Early Sci. in Oxf. (1935) X. 94 Observd evening glade at 7½ h.

1714 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 29 66 In the next place he [sc. Cotton Mather] mentions the Evening Glade; first taken notice of by Dr. Childrey, to be constantly observ'd there in February, and a little before and after that Month; adding, that the Cause of that Appearance must be sought for above the Atmosphere.

evening gown n. a long, elegant dress suitable for wearing on formal occasions.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > dress, robe, or gown > types of > for specific purpose > for evening wear

nightgown1700

evening gown1814

robe de style1909

formal1941

1814 Courier 12 May 1/3 Pink evening gown, edged with a scollop lace in front.

1904 M. E. M. Sangster Good Manners for all Occasions xxii. 287 A young woman..in a white evening gown, low-necked.., with white satin slippers.

2016 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 7 Jan. 15 She dazzled in a sequin-adorned evening gown.

evening grosbeak n. a heavily-built, partly migratory finch of northern and western North America, Hesperiphona vespertina, having chiefly brown and yellow plumage with black and white wings. [Probably after scientific Latin Fringilla vespertina, lit. ‘evening finch’, former scientific name (W. Cooper 1825, in Ann. Lyceum Nat. Hist. N.-Y. 1, 220).]

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1828 C. L. Bonaparte Amer. Ornithol. II. 76 The specimen of the Evening Grosbeak presented to the Lyceum of New-York by Mr. Schoolcraft, from which Mr. Cooper established the species, was thought until lately the only one in possession of civilized man.

1921 F. S. Mathews Field Bk. Wild Birds & their Music (rev. ed.) 276 The Evening Grosbeak is a boreal species whose winter visitations in the northerly States..are irregular.

2006 Vermont Life Autumn 13 The raucous red-winged blackbirds and evening grosbeaks disappear.

evening gun n. Military a gun fired at a set time in the evening, esp. one fired at sunset to mark the end of the day (cf. sunset gun n. at sunset n. Compounds 7).

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1744 J. Philips Authentic Jrnl. Exped. Anson 118 We began to fire the Morning and Evening Guns.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Evening Gun, the warning-piece, after the firing of which the sentries challenge.

1942 Life 26 Oct. 128/1 At its last note the evening gun is fired, and the flag is slowly lowered.

2012 K. Candlin Last Caribbean Frontier vi. 118 Thomas Picton regularly took an evening stroll to the sea fort near Marine Square to hear the evening gun shoot off its salute.

evening knowledge n. [after post-classical Latin cognitio vespertina (early 5th cent. in St Augustine; also in Aquinas)] Philosophy (chiefly historical) the knowledge of things in their actual nature, as opposed to morning knowledge (morning knowledge n. at morning n., adv., and int. Compounds 5), which is the knowledge of the causes or divine archetypal ideas of things.

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1621 R. Jenison Height Israels Idolatrie 31 This knowledge, of S. Augustine is called scientia matutina & diurna, morning and day-knowledge: Or secondly, in the proper natures of the things themselues; and this is called vespertina, euening-knowledge, as being more obscure then the former.

1677 R. Gilpin Dæmonol. Sacra i. iv. 23 Knowledg..from the Effects of Things; which because it is more dark and obscure, than that which ariseth from the Causes of things, they [sc. the schoolmen] tearmed Evening Knowledg.

1836 R. W. Emerson Prospects in Nature viii. 91 The difference between the actual and the ideal force of man is happily figured by the schoolmen, in saying, that the knowledge of man is an evening knowledge,..but that of God is a morning knowledge.

1994 J. P. Walsh Knowl. of Angels 262 He had desired the knowledge of angels, in whom there was no difference between morning knowledge and evening knowledge.

† evening-lighted adj. Obsolete illuminated by the light of the evening.

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1832 Ld. Tennyson Margaret in Poems (new ed.) 143 From the eveninglighted wood.

a1891 E. Bulwer-Lytton King Poppy (1892) 21 Deep in an evening-lighted land,..Upon a radiant eminence reclined The kingly Poppy.

evening mass n. a mass celebrated in the evening; (also, without reference to the Eucharist) a religious service taking place in the evening.The exact meaning in quot. 1597 is disputed. Some commentators have suggested that Shakespeare is displaying ignorance of Roman Catholic practice, as at that time mass was usually only celebrated in the morning; others have suggested that he was using the word ‘mass’ in a more general sense to refer to any religious service. [In quot. 1903 after post-classical Latin missa vespertinalis (7th cent.), where the noun has the wider sense mentioned in the etymological note at mass n.¹]

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1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iv. i. 38 Are you at leasure holy Father now: Or shall I come to you at euening Masse ?

1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe I. iii. 53 The Lady Rowena, who had been absent to attend an evening mass at a distant church, had but just returned.

1903 W. H. Hutton Eng. Saints iii. 122 It was Saturday night, and he [sc. Columba] went to the chapel for the evening mass (as Adamnan still calls the night office).

2010 R. Mullen Call of Camino 59 The church bell was tolling by the time we returned, summoning the villager to evening mass.

evening news n. (usually with the) news reports published or broadcast in the evening.Frequently in the titles of newspapers.

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1737 Daily Advertiser 10 Oct. A certain Set of Printers having sold a Parcel of Lottery Tickets they are not possess'd of,..have made it a Rule..to usher in their Evening News with a Paragraph insinuating that there are few or no real Buyers of Tickets.

1811 Walker's Hibernian Mag. Sept. 486/1 Just now, the evening newspapers, (for we have morning and evening news more duly than matins or vespers) were announced from the lungs of male and female hawkers.

1836 Republican & Banner (Madison, Indiana) 18 Feb. 3/1 A new daily paper to be published in Louisville, styled the ‘Evening News’.

1855 Manch. Examiner & Times 2 June 4/2 We intend to publish the Manchester Evening News, a Daily Paper for the People, in the Afternoon.

1925 N.Y. Times 17 Dec. 28/4 Today's Radio Program... WOR, Newark—405..7:20 P.M.—Evening News.

1933 Sat. Rev. 1 July 12/1 It has been my fate..to find myself largely dependent on the B.B.C. for my evening news.

1997 B. Dickson in A. Reid & B. D. Osborne Discovering Sc. Writers 12 After the War he took up journalism, working for the Glasgow Evening News.

2007 Independent 18 July (Property section) 11/1 How many of us come home..and..flop out in front of the telly to watch the evening news.

evening paper n. a newspaper published later than a morning newspaper, typically so as to be ready for sale or delivery from midday onwards.

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society > communication > journalism > journal > newspaper > [noun] > evening

evening paper1720

evening?1796

eveninger1944

1720 Weekly Jrnl., or Brit. Gazetteer 16 Apr. 1579/2 All thy News (except what thou dost steal from the Evening-Papers) is nothing but idle Trash.

1857 C. Dickens Little Dorrit ii. xii. 419 The evening paper was full of Mr. Merdle.

1913 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 22 Feb. 20/1 Everybody within reach of the Paris evening papers is probably reading about the crime.

2001 J. C. Grimwood Pashazade (2003) xiii. 76 Raf skimmed the evening paper she'd just handed him.

evening prayer n. religious worship taking place in the evening, spec. the Anglican service of evensong; the ritual or words prescribed for this; also in plural in same sense (cf. prayer n.¹ 4a).

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society > faith > worship > canonical hours > vespers, evensong > [noun]

evensongOE

evesonga1250

evening prayer1539

evening song?1548

evening service1561

vesper1611

vespera1640

vespertine1651

vesper service1797

1539 J. Hilsey Man. Prayers sig. EE.ii^v As we now call the mornynge prayers Matens, and the euenynge prayers Euensonge.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) ii. ii. 98 A ciuill modest wife..that will not misse you morning nor euening prayer .

1653 R. Lovell in E. Nicholas Nicholas Papers (1892) II. 36 M^r D[ean] Cosens, as hee was readeing evening prayer, fell down in a swoone.

1762 J. Wesley Let. 26 Nov. (1931) IV. 365 As soon as Evening Prayer was over, the tide then serving, I took boat at the Bluff for Carolina.

1850 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis II. xi. 104 The bells of the multitudinous city churches were ringing to evening prayers.

1984 M. Richler in G. Lynch & D. Rampton Canad. Ess. (1991) 254 We were obliged to join my grandfather at sunset in the poky little Gallicianer shul around the corner for the evening prayers.

2010 S. Massotty tr. K. Abdolah House of Mosque 11 Hundreds of worshippers had come to the mosque for the evening prayer.

evening school n. an evening class or series of classes, usually for adults who work during the day; an institution providing such classes; = night school n. 2.

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society > education > place of education > [noun] > educational institution > other types of

academya1583

military school1673

evening school1742

city farm1750

night school1780

school ship1785

neighbourhood school1842

academy school1852

writing school1928

juku1962

1742 Daily Advertiser 6 Nov. (advt.) There is an Evening School at the same Place, from Six to Nine, at which Time any of the 'foremention'd Branches will be taught.

1785 J. Wesley Let. 17 Feb. (1931) VII. 258 I abhor the thought of our master's keeping an evening school.

1832 Chambers' Edinb. Jrnl. 15 Dec. 361/2 On the discovery of his literary taste, Mr. Laidlaw put him to an evening school.

1937 Discovery Sept. p. lxxxi Evening Schools of History and Geography are specially arranged to meet the needs of Adult Students.

2009 Taos (New Mexico) News (Nexis) 15 Jan. c8 She studied law in evening school.

evening service n. a religious service taking place in the evening, spec. the Anglican service of evensong; the ritual or words prescribed for such a service. Cf. evening prayer n.

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society > faith > worship > canonical hours > vespers, evensong > [noun]

evensongOE

evesonga1250

evening prayer1539

evening song?1548

evening service1561

vesper1611

vespera1640

vespertine1651

vesper service1797

1561 Iniunctions Bishop of Norwich sig. A.iv^v Whether the Priestes, and deacons saye daylie the morning and euening seruice, openlye or priuatelye.

1646 Perfect Diurnall No. 131. 1049 Until five of the Clock at furthest in the afternoon, when Evening Service hath bin first performed.

1777 T. Lindsey Let. 18 Dec. (2007) I. 250 As far as I recollect in the evening-service, there is no direct invocation of any but the Father in any but the concluding prayer of Chrysostom's.

1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho I. ii. 53 St. Aubert read, in a low and solemn voice, the evening service.

1826 T. Flint Francis Berrian II. ii. 74 Bryan, deeply affected, retired to a little distance, and began to chant the evening service to the Virgin.

1930 E. H. Young Miss Mole iv. 38 People used to say things. She was never at the Sunday evening service, and that didn't look well, did it?

1966 C. Potok Chosen vii. 101 The Evening Service was over very quickly, and afterward one of the younger men chanted the Havdalah, the brief service that marks the end of the Shabbat.

2008 Christianity Today Feb. 28/1 An evening service featuring songs, readings, and the gradual extinguishing of lights to represent Christ's death.

evening song n. (a) Christian Church = evensong n. 1 (now rare); (b) a song or succession of songs sung in the evening, esp. by a bird.

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society > faith > worship > canonical hours > vespers, evensong > [noun]

evensongOE

evesonga1250

evening prayer1539

evening song?1548

evening service1561

vesper1611

vespera1640

vespertine1651

vesper service1797

?1548 L. Shepherd Pore Helpe (new ed.) sig. A.vii These babes..fayne would haue the mattens And eueninge songe [?1548 (ed. 1) eueinge songe] also In Englishe.

1628 T. May tr. Virgil Georgicks i. 20 The fatall owle high mounted at sun set Does not the balefull evening song repeat.

1653 Bp. J. Taylor XXV Serm. xiv. 188 Then it passed from a day of Religion to be a day of order, and from fasting till night, to fasting till evening-song, and evening-song to be sung about twelve a clock.

1660 Bp. J. Taylor Ductor Dubitantium I. ii. ii. §61 Untill the Evening song be finished, for then the Ecclesiastical solemnity is over.

1709 A. Pope Autumn in Poet. Misc.: 6th Pt. vi. 741 The Birds shall cease to tune their Ev'ning Song.

1758 W. Shenstone in R. Dodsley Coll. Poems Several Hands V. 42 When the bell rung For evening-song, His dinner scarce was ended.

1996 P. C. Doherty Tournament of Murders 5 ‘Even though the day be ever so long,’ the landlord intoned. ‘At last the bell rings for evening song.’

2011 G. Shields Eternal iii. 34 Blackbirds were beginning their evening song.

evening suit n. a suit of clothes suitable for formal wear during the evening.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > set or suit of clothes > [noun] > evening dress or dress suit

evening suit1807

soup-and-fish1829

white tie1849

tails1857

monkey suit1920

black tie1951

penguin suit1961

1807 Morning Post 2 Mar. An evening suit.

1862 G. Meredith Lett. (1970) I. 166 If you want me to dine, know that I can only do so if you are absolutely alone, having no evening suit.

1912 J. Joyce Let. 11 Sept. (1966) II. 319 My evening suit is in the lower drawer of the wardrobe.

1998 N.Y. Mag. 20 Apr. 50/3 Renée DuMarr offers women's day and evening suits for spring and summer.

evening-tide n. now archaic an evening; evening time; = eventide n.

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the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > evening > [noun]

evenOE

eventideOE

eveningOE

eventimeOE

evea1250

evetimec1300

even whilea1375

evetidea1382

supper timec1390

supper whilea1425

forenight1513

evening-tide1521

supperwardc1563

after-supperc1596

Vesperugo1600

vesper1613

far-day1650

eveg1675

evg1777

dew-falla1822

1521 tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Cyte of Ladyes ii. xxvij. sig. F.ij It happened in an euenynge tyde that they were aduysed to put to effecte in y^e mournynge theyr entrepryse.

1611 Bible (King James) 2 Sam. xi. 2 It came to passe in an euening tide, that Dauid arose from off his bed.

1743 R. Blair Grave 37 Behold him! in the Evening-Tide of Life.

1854 C. Dickens Hard Times ii. i. 134 Mrs. Sparsit was conscious that by coming in the evening-tide among the desks and writing implements, she shed a feminine..grace.

2010 Hull Daily Mail (Nexis) 18 Dec. 14 Blue tits are flocking when eveningtide approaches to get into a snug weatherproof nesting box.

evening time n. the period of time at the end of the day; the evening; (also figurative) the latter part of something, esp. a person's life.

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1535 Bible (Coverdale) Zech. xix. 7 Aboute the euenynge tyme it shal be light.

1632 J. Weemes Explic. Iudiciall Lawes Moses xxv. 89 This was the evening time when women came out to draw water.

1743 W. Wilson (title) The evening-time of the Church of Christ issuing in light.

1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby ii. 6 The notes of pianos and harps float in the evening time.

1921 A. L. Gary & E. B. Thomas Centennial Hist. Rush County, Indiana I. 492 [He] has surrounded himself with many..comforts.., giving himself a pleasant prospect of the approaching ‘evening time’ of his life.

2013 Belfast Tel. (Nexis) 9July 3 We run several breakfast seminars..and..events in the evening time as well.

evening wear n. (a) the action of wearing on the person during the evening or at night (cf. wear n. 1a); (b) (usually as one word) clothing suitable for formal wear during the evening, esp. as distinct from the more casual styles of day wear; cf. day wear n. at day n. Compounds 3.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > for specific purpose > evening

evening dress1782

evening wear1800

wampum and warpaint1876

formal1941

1800 Morning Chron. 16 Jan. (advt.) In order that Ladies may not be disappointed in the ornaments which they purchase for evening wear, T. and Co.'s Rooms will be lighted up every day, from twelve to four o'clock.

1849 Illustr. London News 5 May 296/2 One of the chief novelties of the season, suitable for promenading or for evening wear, is the Poncho.

1930 Daily Express 6 Oct. 5/2 (advt.) Rich quality panne velvet giving a fashionable brilliance for afternoon and evening wear.

1944 M. McLuhan Let. 18 Jan. (1987) 149 Both lectures are in the evening. ‘Smoking’ is formal evening wear here, but I'll check on tails.

1986 O. Clark Diary 11 Dec. (1998) 206 Sandra was very negative on the phone about Carolyne Waters. ‘I don't think she buys much eveningwear.’

2012 Vintage Life Mar. 16/1 Twenties-inspired eveningwear took centre stage at Gucci with dazzling gold cocktail dresses and Art Deco detailing.

Derivatives

ˈeveningless adj. poetic and literary having no evening, (hence) not drawing to a close, endless.

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1825 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 441 How frequent have I wish'd, That lusty liveliness might prove undying, And eveningless that sunny noon of heart.

1892 W. Hubbard-Kernan Flaming Meteor 230 The song-birds should lilt in an evergreen bower,..And twitter and trill thro' an eveningless hour.

2000 J. M. D'Arcy tr. S. Jakobsdóttir Lodger 39 They would be robbed of the twilight of their lives and there would be nothing before them but an endless, unbroken row of eveningless days.

ˈeveningly adv. rare every evening.Chiefly in self-conscious use, on the model of daily.

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1777 J. Elphinston Ess. Brit. Liberty 182 What then shall become of those useful alike and entertaining intelligencers..who eveningly, morningly, (why not noonly?) and daily, dispense to the itching ears of every class, the new system of politics?

1844 J. T. J. Hewlett Parsons & Widows II. xxviii. 162 Daily, or, more correctly, eveningly.

1960 J. Barth Sot-weed Factor ii. xxi. 344 He comes out eveningly to poor sweet Portia.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	evening
释义	eveningn.¹adv.int. Brit. /ˈiːvnɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈivnɪŋ/ Forms: Old English æfenung (rare), Old English æfning (rare), Old English æfnnunge (dative, probably transmission error), Old English æfnung, early Middle English æfnuncg, Middle English eueningue, Middle English evynnyng, Middle English heuenyng, Middle English hevenynge, Middle English–1500s eueninge, Middle English–1500s euenyng, Middle English–1500s euenynge, Middle English–1500s evenynge, Middle English–1600s euening, Middle English–1600s eveninge, Middle English 1600s evenyng, 1500s euennynge, 1500s 1600s eu'ning, 1500s– evening, 1600s eevning, 1600s–1700s ev'ning, 1800s– evenin (regional and nonstandard), 1800s– evenin' (regional and nonstandard); English regional 1800s ebenin, 1900s evenun', 1900s– eveling (Devon); also Scottish pre-1700 e'ening, pre-1700 eining, pre-1700 euining, pre-1700 evennyng, pre-1700 evining, pre-1700 evinnyng, pre-1700 evynnyng, pre-1700 ewennyng, pre-1700 ewining, pre-1700 ewinnyng, pre-1700 ewyning, pre-1700 ewynning, pre-1700 ewynnyng, 1700s eenin, 1800s e'ening, 1800s–1900s e'enin. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: even v.², -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < even v.² + -ing suffix¹. Compare even n.¹ A. n.¹ 1. a. The close of day, esp. the time from about 6 p.m., or sunset if earlier, to bedtime; the period between afternoon and night. Also in early use: †the process or fact of dusk falling; the time about sunset (obsolete). Cf. morning n. 1a, even n.¹ 1.In quot. OE¹ in on evening at Phrases 1.In quot. OE² rendering classical Latin crepusculum crepuscule n., in this instance denoting the twilight of dawn, which the glossator has misunderstood as the twilight of evening. ΘΚΠ the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > evening > [noun] evenOE eventideOE eveningOE eventimeOE evea1250 evetimec1300 even whilea1375 evetidea1382 supper timec1390 supper whilea1425 forenight1513 evening-tide1521 supperwardc1563 after-supperc1596 Vesperugo1600 vesper1613 far-day1650 eveg1675 evg1777 dew-falla1822 the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > [noun] > making or becoming dark > at night eveningOE the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > evening > [noun] > twilight, dusk, or nightfall nighteOE evengloamOE eveningOE gloamingc1000 darknessa1382 twilighting1387 crepusculum1398 crepusculec1400 darkc1400 twilight1412 sky1515 twinlightc1532 day-going?1552 cockshut1592 shutting1598 blind man's holiday1599 candle-lighting1605 gropsing1606 nightfall1612 dusk1622 torchlighta1656 candlelight1663 crepuscle1665 shut1667 mock-shade1669 close1696 duskish1696 glooma1699 setting1699 dimmit1746 to-fall of the day or night1748 darklins1767 even-close1781 mirkning1790 gloaming-shot1793 darkening1814 bat-flying time1818 gloama1821 between-light1821 settle1822 dayfall1823 evenfall1825 onfall1825 owl-hoot1832 glooming1842 darkfall1884 smokefall1936 dusk-light1937 OE Ælfric De Temporibus Anni (Cambr. Gg.3.28) (2009) iii. 80 Þonne seo sunne gæð on æfnunge under ðyssere eorðan, þonne bið þære eorðan bradnys betwux us & ðære sunnan. OE Aldhelm Glosses (Brussels 1650) in L. Goossens Old Eng. Glosses of MS Brussels, Royal Libr. 1650 (1974) 159 [Roscido facessante] crepusculo : deorcunge uel æfnnunge. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 15183 Riht to þan euening þa fleh Cadwalan þe king. c1300 St. James Great (Laud) l. 228 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 40 (MED) In þe eueningue riȝht Seint Ieme cam to him ride. c1350 Psalter (BL Add. 17376) in K. D. Bülbring Earliest Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter (1891) ciii. 23 (MED) Man shal go forþ to his werke, and to his wircheing [L. operationem] vn-to þe euenynge. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. xxvii. 57 When the euenyng was maad, there came a riche man fro Armathia. c1400 ( G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe (Cambr. Dd.3.53) (1872) ii. §6. 20 (heading) To knowe the spring of the dawyng & the ende of the euenyng, the which ben called the two crepusculus. c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) i. l. 2732 (MED) Þe heuenyng be-gonne for to dirke. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 144 Evenynge, þe laste parte of þe day. a1500 (?c1450) Bone Florence (1976) l. 1456 To hyt drewe to þe euenynge. 1589 R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations i. 97 They cut the branches euery euening, because they are seared vp in the day by the heate of the Sunne. 1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII iii. ii. 227 I shall fall Like a bright exhalation in the Euening . View more context for this quotation 1652 French Intelligencer No. 15. 111 About 8: in the Evening, they took their leave of these Madaimoselles. 1747 W. Wetenhall Hounslow-Heath 8 In higher Life the Evenings often pass, With a gay Pipe, and recreating Glass. ?1795 H. Macneill Scotland's Scaith 19 The tears that now ilk e'ening Bleach'd her lately crimson'd cheek! 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xviii. 122 On the evening of the same day. 1872 J. Morley Voltaire iii. 104 People met..at the supper at nine in the evening. 1919 A. E. Dobbs Educ. & Social Movements 1700–1850 ii. iv. 156 The Royal Lancasterian Free School..had an elementary class for factory lads three evenings a week. 1962 A. Sampson Anat. Brit. xxvii. 450 He likes going home early,..and plays bridge or scrabble in the evenings. 1971 K. Awoonor This Earth, my Brother ii. 26 The evening had come with the suddenness that it does in the tropics. 2015 P. Hawkins Girl on Train 101 I spent yesterday evening sitting on the sofa in jogging bottoms and a T-shirt. b. With wider reference: the period between midday and night; the afternoon. Now regional. ΘΚΠ the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > afternoon > [noun] evenOE overnoonOE midovernoona1325 afternoonc1330 mid-afternoona1400 undern1470 after-dinner1576 postmeridian1583 evening1587 post meridiem1647 none1656 noon1667 postnoon1686 aft1772 p.m.1776 after1906 pip emma1912 arvo1933 pee em1933 afty1966 1587 R. Hakluyt tr. R. de Laudonnière Notable Hist. Foure Voy. Florida f. 19^v I embarked my selfe about three or foure of the clocke in the euening. 1593 W. Perkins Direct. for Govt. Tongue vi. 33 Our common formes of salutations are commendable: which are of divers sortes: as when one meetes another, God save you:..in the morning, God give you a good morning: after noone, God give you a good evening. 1643 G. Torriano tr. A. de Cardenas Speech to his Majestie at Oxf. 4 A Ship of your Majesties..about one or two of the clock the same evening..was in a thievish and Piratick manner stollen out of the said harbour. 1788 in G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. (1879) 136 The meeting held on Monday evening last was adjourned to be holden to-morrow Evening at three of the Clock. 1806 M. Lewis Jrnl. 21 May in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1991) VII. 163 It was one in the evening before we returned with him. 1876 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Tom Sawyer i. 19 He'll play hookey this evening. 1880 G. W. Cable Grandissimes xiv. 94 This evening (the Creoles never say afternoon) about a half-hour before sunset. 1966 G. W. Turner Eng. Lang. in Austral. & N.Z. viii. 164 In Queensland evening may be used to refer to anytime after midday. 1971 H. Orton & M. V. Barry Surv. Eng. Dial. II. iii. 773 Today, between 2 and 4 p.m., so . . . [Monmouthshire] This evening. 1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 117/1 Evening, the afternoon. c. Such a period as characterized by the weather, conditions, events, etc., experienced during that time. ΚΠ a1591 H. Smith Gods Arrowe (1593) sig. A3^v You wil spend away some part of winters weary nights & Summers plesant Euenings, in perusing ouer this worthy booke. 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing ii. iii. 38 How stil the euening is, As husht on purpose to grace harmonie. 1673 W. Hooke Priviledge Saints on Earth 141 That must needs be a very sad Evening, especially in respect of trouble, great oppositions and commotions. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa V. xxx. 246 Two of these women gave me a great deal of trouble: And the third, I am confident, will forgive a merry evening. 1798 Monthly Visitor May 81 The evening was calm and serene. 1826 Spirit Eng. Mag. 15 Mar. 475/1 He had seen Evan Davies loitering on the road to Towyn on that terrible evening. 1894 Southern Cultivator June 303/2 One of these lovely evenings, when Elizabeth's heart was as light as the little rippling waves around the boat, she and Guy drifted far away over the blue waters. 1911 H. I. Hancock Dick Prescott's Third Year at West Point xvii. 185 Yet spoiled as his evening was, Prescott did his best to make it a bright occasion. 1990 Philadelphia Inquirer 20 Oct. d1/6 It was a beautiful evening.., if you like clear, coolish, dry northern California nights. 2002 Time 20 May 47/3 It's been a busy evening for the mayor, what with swearing in two school board members, giving three speeches and dropping by a book signing. 2. figurative. The latter part of something, esp. a person's life. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > end or conclusion > [noun] > the latter part eveningOE enda1200 eventide?c1225 finea1350 tail1377 latter (last) enda1382 issue1484 latter day?1498 waning1561 last days1572 heel1584 sunsetting1593 fall1596 lag-end1598 posterior1598 sunset1599 dotage1606 exit1615 stern1623 waning timea1639 last1683 heel piecea1764 shank1828 tail-end1845 tailpiece1869 tag1882 teatime1913 end-point1921 OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) xv. 151 Ure hælend ðrowade on þære sixtan ylde þyssere worulde, seo yld is geteald to æfnunge þises ateorigendlican middaneardes. a1500 Hymnal in R. S. Loomis Medieval Stud. in Memory G. S. Loomis (1927) 445 (MED) Thys world envyryng toward hys end and fyne, Endarkyd by synne approchyng his evenyng. 1589 T. Nashe Anat. Absurditie sig. ¶iii^v Time, wel maist thou exult, that in the euening of thy age, thou conceiuedst such a subiect of wonder, & Peace. 1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. i. vi. §9. 97 The long day of mankinde drawing fast towards an euening. 1654 True & Perfect Dutch-diurnall No. 15. 118 I Iohn Lilburn of London Gent. being aged 39 yeers, now in the evening of my life do here ordain this to be my last wil and testament. 1703 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion II. vi. 116 He was a Person of great Courage, Honour, and Fidelity, and not well known till his Evening. 1725 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. iv. 116 The sad evening of a stormy life. 1812 P. B. Shelley Addr. Irish People 8 The king of Great Britain has arrived at the evening of his days. 1865 E. B. Pusey Eirenicon 3 To..consecrate the evening of my life to the unfolding of some of the deep truths of God's Holy Word. 1935 Pacific Affairs 8 111 The British Empire, in the evening of its power, obliged to maintain its territorial and economic possessions. 1966 Rev. Politics 28 126 Leopold disapproved sharply of most of the rash measures that clouded the evening of Joseph's reign. a2003 H. R. Trevor-Roper Europe's Physician (2006) xxxi. 334 His life, he pointed out, was now in its evening, and so he could not afford to wait. †3. English regional (Oxfordshire). In plural. A portion of grass or grain given by a lord to a feudal tenant at the end of a day's harvesting, as a reward for the work performed. Obsolete.Quot. c1325 shows the English word in a Latin context; it can be translated as ‘For an entire virgate (virgate n. 1) of the same tenure he was to have livery (livery n. 5a) at vespers, which is called “evenyngs”: as much as a mower could make by his scythe, and carry home by himself’. ΚΠ c1325 in W. Kennett Parochial Antiq. (1818) I. 575 Virgata terræ integra ejusdem tenuræ habebit liberam ad vesperas quæ vocatur Evenyngs tantam sicut falcator potest per falcem levare et domum portare per ipsam. 1695 W. Kennett Parochial Antiq. Gloss. Evenyngs, the delivery at Even or Night of a certain portion of grass or corn to a custumary Tenant, who performs his wonted service of mowing or reaping for his Lord, and at the end of his days work receives such a quantity of the grass or corn to carry home with him as a gratuity or encouragement of his bounden service. 4. An event or social gathering held in the evening; (formerly) esp. an evening event in which guests are received and entertained in one's home (now chiefly historical). Cf. soirée n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > social gathering > [noun] > evening gathering conversazione1740 evening party1742 sociable1750 evening1791 soirée1793 Gregory1804 veillée1825 tertulia1828 swarry1837 social evening1844 1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1763 I. 253 On Wednesday, August 3, we had our last social evening at the Turk's Head coffee-house, before my setting out for foreign parts. 1847 J. Conolly Constr. & Govt. Lunatic Asylums iii. 55 A few years ago it was the custom to have a music evening once a week, which was looked forward to with great pleasure by both the male and female patients. 1876 M. M. Grant Sun-maid II. xvii. 213 Gilbert placed first in his heart..the enjoyment of those ‘little evenings’, as his aunt termed them. 1881 H. James Portrait of Lady II. xvii. 206 Mrs. Osmond having an ‘evening’—she had taken the Thursday of each week. 1948 A. Waugh Unclouded Summer iv. 65 A gala evening where the men would discard their maillots for starched linen. 1985 Noûs 19 303 Suppose you and I plan to host an evening of poker for several friends. 2003 C. MacCabe Godard iii. 150 Bitsch..met up again with Truffaut and Rivette at the famous evenings in the Studio Parnasse, where Rivette always won the quizzes. 2008 R. Moore & G. Owen My Word is my Bond (2009) xi. 281 I remember going to the Fenice Theatre..for a tribute evening to Ingrid Bergman. 5. British colloquial. A newspaper published later than a morning newspaper, typically so as to be ready for sale or delivery from midday onwards; = evening paper n. at Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > communication > journalism > journal > newspaper > [noun] > evening evening paper1720 evening?1796 eveninger1944 ?1796 C. Stuart Let. in Corr. George, Prince of Wales (1971) VIII. 393 It will be in the chief evenings of to night, and the mornings of tomorrow. 1892 J. Miller Workingman's Paradise viii. 86 Bring out a small-sized, neat, first-rate daily for a ha'penny, threepence a week, and knock the penny evenings off their feet. 1920 Editor & Publisher 31 July 10/3 There are comparatively few British provincial ‘evenings’ which regularly devote as large a portion of their space to politics..as do their morning contemporaries. 1967 ‘G. Douglas’ Death went Hunting v. 36 We've missed the final edition of the local evening now. 2009 P. Hitchens Broken Compass iii. 25 Murders that would once have featured in national newspapers are now buried inside regional evenings. B. adv. In the evening. Now only in phrases, esp. morning and evening at morning adv. Compare evenings adv. ΚΠ ?a1475 Ludus Coventriae (1922) 37 (MED) I pray to god..that he me kepe in such A plyght, mornynge, hevenynge, mydday and none. 1560–1 in R. Adam Edinb. Rec. (1899) II. 121 For candill, mornyng and eining xij d. 1611 Bible (King James) Psalms lv. 17 Euening and morning, and at noone will I pray, and crie aloud. a1704 T. Brown Dispensary in 3rd Vol. Wks. (1708) iii. 90 Take one Spoonful of it Morning and Evening. 1794 M. Robinson Julia St. Laurence I. 147 She dresses three or four times, morning and evening. 1811 Monthly Repository Dec. 731/1 I preached in the Unitarian Baptist meeting-house, morning, afternoon and evening. 1888 N.Y. Times 12 Nov. 8/2 He spoke twice, morning and evening. 1909 Index 18 Sept. 12/1 Her engagement is for one week and will include two performances a day, afternoon and evening. 1998 P. Robb M (1999) 14 [He] used a portrait canvas as a tablecloth and ate off it morning and evening. 2016 Sunday Times (Nexis) 17 Apr. 10 I was on site every day, morning and evening, to check quality. C. int. colloquial. Expressing good wishes on meeting or parting during the evening; ‘good evening’. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > courteous expressions [interjection] > expressions of greeting > at specific times of day good morrowc1405 good morningc1450 morrowa1625 evening1886 afternoon1893 1886 E. D. E. N. Southworth To His Fate xv. 170 Ebenin', young mist'ess. Ebenin', ole marster. Ebenin', Miss Cafferine. 1898 A. Thomas Alabama i. 12 Evenin', Mistah Armstrong, evenin'. 1912 J. Masefield Widow in Bye St. iv. 55 ‘Evening,’ she said. ‘Good evening.’ 1965 I. Fleming Man with Golden Gun v. 70 The eyes flirted. ‘Evenin'.’ ‘Good. Could I have a Red Stripe?’ 2001 S. Brett Death on Downs iii. 20 Evening, Will, old man. Pint of the usual. Phrases P1. In prepositional phrases (without article), as at (also †in, †on, before, till, etc.) evening. ΚΠ OE Ælfric De Temporibus Anni (Cambr. Gg.3.28) (2009) iii. 80 Þonne seo sunne gæð on æfnunge under ðyssere eorðan, þonne bið þære eorðan bradnys betwux us & ðære sunnan. OE Ælfric Homily (Hatton 114) in J. C. Pope Homilies of Ælfric (1968) II. 741 Hwæt þa on æfninge com Godes engel mid leohte to Alexandre, and gelædde hine to Ermen. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 6385 (MED) It come at morn and euening. ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) ii. l. 7588 On mornes long to lie, surfeyte in euenyng & luf of licchorie..þe Bretons..forsoke suilk party. 1531 Prymer of Salysbury Use f. lxxiii. I paye vnto the thys lytell tribute on mornynge & on euenynge. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 587 According as the said stars begin either to shine out or bee hidden..at evening after the Sunne is set, they..are named Matutine or Vespertine. a1640 J. Ball Power of Godlines (1657) 366 Thus it is noted of Isaac, that in evening he went forth to pray or meditate. 1722 J. Bingham Origines Ecclesiasticæ IX. xxi. i. 242 Victorinus Petavionensis..speaks of several Sorts of Fasts observed among Christians, some of which were only till the Ninth Hour, some till Evening. 1881 W. W. Greener Gun & its Devel. 535 Mr. Campbell..succeeded in bagging 220 grouse by evening. 1925 D. Grayson Adv. in Understanding x. 210 We are blessed with an open square or common, which sometimes at evening,..has a sweetness that reminds me of the country. 1990 Star-Ledger (Newark) 28 Oct. v. 19/4 Capt. Jim Hull hung in until evening when a mate hooked a tuna on baitcasting tackle. 2014 Leicester Mercury (Nexis) 3 Feb. 16 Keyham is normal before evening, but what happens next comes down to a simple question: do you believe in the impossible wonder that is ghosts? P2. of an evening: in the evening, during the evening; esp. habitually in the evening, each evening. Formerly also †in an evening. ΚΠ c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) l. 5017 (MED) In an euening þai com to þe cite, Þat hye wiþ-outen aperceiued nar he. ?1473 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Recuyell Hist. Troye (1894) I. lf. 115 He sped hym so that he arryued in an euenyng at the castell of arciancie. a1500 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (Hunterian) (1980) ii. 258 (MED) It fel in a euenynge he rombyd alone vndir hys wodys-syde be hys place. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. I. vii. 166 He was slaine or sticked in an Euening amongest his knightes. 1646 S. Marshall Def. Infant-baptism 203 The Passeover was to be eaten in an evening. 1789 Amer. Museum Dec. 476/1 You know how well pleased we all are, when of an evening you tell us some pretty story. 1861 Ploughing & Sowing v. 246 [They are] often not allowed a candle in the kitchen, by which, those who can read might read their Bibles in an evening. 1917 H. Garland Son of Middle Border 47 Often of an evening, especially in the winter time, father took his seat beside the fire. 1952 T. Armstrong Adam Brunskill viii. 260 There's a ripe young lass somewhere upbank as keeps house for her father. He's usually out boozing till late of an evening. 2005 C. Cleave Incendiary 236 I mean I've been thinking about it a lot what with not having much to do of an evening. P3. this evening: the evening of today. Chiefly in adverbial use: during the evening of today. ΚΠ 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. f. l^v/2 Yf we were good men of armes we shulde drinke this euenynge with the frenche lordes. 1553 Duke of Northumberland in W. B. Scoones Four Cent. Eng. Lett. (1880) 22 Wofull was the newes I receyved this evenynge. a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) iii. vi. 73 Ber. But you must not now slumber in it. Par. Ile about it this euening. 1666 S. Pepys Diary 24 Dec. (1972) VII. 420 I this evening did buy me a pair of green spectacles, to see whether they will help my eyes or no. 1711 J. Swift Lett. (1767) III. 151 It rained so this evening again, that I thought I should hardly be able to get a dry hour to walk home in. 1769 J. Woodforde Diary 5 Dec. (1924) I. 94 A strange man was found this evening in my father's little house. 1823 E. James Acct. Exped. Rocky Mts. I. 188 Several Canadians..came this evening to dance and sing before us..in celebration of the termination of the year. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda II. iv. xxxiii. 346 This evening is the Sabbath..and I go to the Shool. 1918 W. Owen Let. 19 Aug. (1967) 569 I rushed off a note in time for this evening's post. 1921 Judge (N.Y.) 22 Oct. 25/3 ‘We have several famous movie stars dining with us this evening,’ whispered the waiter. 1979 M. Matshoba Call me not Man (1987) 120 By the way, Thandi. I didn't tell you we're having a get-together here this evening. 2003 C. N. Adichie Purple Hibiscus (2004) 152 I called Doctor Nduoma before I left, though, and he said he will come by this evening. P4. evening out n. an evening spent away from home in social or leisure pursuits; cf. out adv. 14b(b). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > [noun] > a period of > day or night holidaya1400 play-day1558 playing day1575 non Le1636 whole holiday1753 rest day1800 Sunday out1837 day off1853 evening out1870 stop-day1879 night off1885 night out1890 off1926 1870 C. E. L. Riddell Austin Friars I. iv. 86 Two or three friends dropping in to supper; occasional ‘evenings out’. 1928 V. Delmar Bad Girl i. xi. 120 You go to shows and you dress up snappy for your evenings out. 2000 I. Edward-Jones My Canapé Hell (2001) iii. 55 In short it was a crap evening out. Compounds C1. a. General attributive with the sense ‘of, belonging to, or occurring during the evening’. ΚΠ 1534 G. Joye in tr. Dauids Psalter f. 155 My dayes are lyke the eueninge clowde: for I am witherd awaye lyke haye. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Esdras viii. 72 I sat still full of heuines vntill the euenynge sacrifice. a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) iv. ii. 17 Now must we..giue some euening Musique to her eare. View more context for this quotation 1651 W. Davenant Gondibert ii. i. 101 Sunk neer his Evening Region was the Sun. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 111 The cool Evening-breeze the Meads renews. View more context for this quotation 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. iv. 141 A Shepherd's Groom Surveys his Ev'ning Flocks returning Home. View more context for this quotation 1709 A. Pope Winter in Poet. Misc.: 6th Pt. vi. 748 No grateful Dews descend from Ev'ning Skies. 1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks II. v. 282 We took our Evening-Walk in the Fields. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 465. ¶5 Soon as the Evening Shades prevail, The Moon takes up the wondrous Tale. 1726 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xix. 83 A day-devourer, and an ev'ning-spy! 1728 A. Pope Dunciad ii. 56 At early dawn to drop Her evening cates before his neighbour's shop. a1763 W. Shenstone Wks. Verse & Prose (1764) I. 5 I saw my friends in ev'ning circles meet. 1804 T. Jefferson Writings (1830) IV. 19 My evening prospects now hang on the slender thread of a single life. 1870 C. Dickens Edwin Drood iv. 24 I have been..wasting my evening conversation on the desert air. 1901 Country Life Illustr. 31 Aug. 266/2 Honeysuckles give out their scents to the evening air. 1945 N. Coward Diary 3 July (2000) 34 After a drink I took them to the evening rehearsal. 1987 R. Manning Corridor of Mirrors xiv. 144 My father sometimes used to ask me to post letters by the evening collection. 2008 S. Armitage Gig (2009) 81 We watch Chinese water deer and barn owls in the evening light. b. evening hymn n. ΚΠ 1586 Praise of Musicke (title page) God is delighted with the morning & euening hymns of the church. 1828 T. Flint Life & Adventures Arthur Clenning I. iii. 154 She joined her sweet voice to his in an evening hymn. 2009 Agric. Hist. Rev. 57 145/1 Virtually every aspect of school life is covered, from curriculum to playground games and from morning prayers to evening hymns. evening meal n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > meal > [noun] > evening meal or supper supperc1300 collationc1305 mid-dinnera1500 Sunday suppera1580 supper1598 evening meal1620 late dinner1649 ordinary suppera1661 petit souper1751 souper1787 ball supper1794 tray supper1825 kitchen supper1837 bump supper1845 evenmeat1848 tea-dinner1862 luncheon1903 1620 D. Calderwood Def. Arguments against kneeling in receiving Sacramentall Elements ii. 11 It is true, that in our language, this word, Supper, signifieth onely the evening meale. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xi. 72 We set about preparing our evening meal. 1958 Listener 10 July 68/2 A time when many of us are either cooking or eating our evening meal. 2001 Org. Gardening Apr. 42/1 The couple take their evening meals on a backyard bluestone terrace. evening party n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > social gathering > [noun] > evening gathering conversazione1740 evening party1742 sociable1750 evening1791 soirée1793 Gregory1804 veillée1825 tertulia1828 swarry1837 social evening1844 1742 Universal Spectator 17 Apr. 3/3 Ranelaugh House.., where the Beau Monde form their Morning and Evening Parties. 1816 J. Austen Emma II. xvi. 299 Dinner-parties and evening-parties were made for him. View more context for this quotation 1879 F. W. Robinson Coward Conscience I. ii. vii. 256 The guests..had overflowed into the hall, where they were talking, laughing, and flirting in true evening-party fashion. 2014 H. Browne Honeymoon Hotel xiv. 200 An evening party, with a live band and candlelight and guests in black tie, brought an old-fashioned glamour to the whole place. C2. † evening bird n. Obsolete rare a gecko. ΚΠ 1884 Girl's Own Paper 12 Jan. 227/3 The gecko..is sometimes known as the ‘Evening Bird’. evening class n. a class held in the evening, esp. as part of a series of classes forming a course for adults who wish to pursue a new skill, interest, or qualification. ΘΚΠ society > education > teaching > means of teaching > [noun] > class or course > types of summer session1594 evening class1762 summer school1793 training course1822 shop class1844 elective1850 optional1855 night class1870 correspondence class1876 Chautauqua1884 correspondence course1902 gut1902 holiday course1906 shop1912 pud1917 training seminar1917 film school1929 day school1931 refresher1939 farm shop1941 survey course1941 weekend course1944 crash programme1947 sandwich course1955 thick sandwich1962 module1966 bird course1975 1762 W. Smith Additional Disc. & Ess. App. ii. iv. 103 The great truths of Christianity cannot fail of a favourable reception on the Sundays, whether they come from the masters in the evening classes, or from the pulpit. 1835 Belfast News Let. 23 Jan. There will be an evening class in the Irish for those whose occupations may not admit of their attending during the day. 1879 ‘E. Garrett’ House by Wks. II. 188 Aunt Barbara..took her to the evening classes of the Art School. 1932 Washington Post 18 Sept. S6/2 Strayer College will begin..its evening classes in C.P.A. accounting on September 26. 1959 Bookseller 24 Oct. 728/3 20 evening class students have called at a bookshop, all asking for the same title. 2004 Nat. Health Nov. 15/1 Taking an evening class, or going out to a nice restaurant when we're more used to food-court fare can do wonders for our confidence. evening dress n. (a) (as a count noun) a dress intended for formal evening wear; (b) (as a mass noun) clothing suitable for formal wear during the evening, esp. as distinct from the more casual styles of day wear. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > for specific purpose > evening evening dress1782 evening wear1800 wampum and warpaint1876 formal1941 1782 Beauties of Fielding 192 The ladies..will often become foils to themselves, as appears by the morning and evening dresses of a woman of fashion. 1880 ‘Mrs. Forrester’ Roy & Viola I. 11 ‘Have you no evening-dress’ asks Netta. 1936 E. A. Baker Hist. Eng. Novel VII. iii. 186 Evening dress in any colour that suited the fancy of the wearer was discarded for the black coat. 1970 Times 6 Nov. 1/5 News readers at B.B.C. Leeds have been told to wear evening dress at night. 2013 W. Wallace Sacred River (2014) xlv. 201 The Fleury sisters, their faces powdered white, were in evening dresses, limp satins that looked as if they'd expired from the heat. evening-dressed adj. dressed for a formal evening occasion; wearing evening dress or an evening dress. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > other slitteredc1380 tatteredc1380 accoutredc1540 suiteda1592 undressed1605 uniforma1626 full-dressed1731 tucky1748 underdresseda1784 costumed1820 décolleté1831 fancy dressed1836 winter-clad1836 sacked1847 evening-dressed1848 mufti1853 tailor-made1896 swim-suited1955 1848 Morning Chron. 15 Feb. 5/2 Evening-dressed and white-cravatted individuals. 1896 Westm. Gaz. 15 Feb. 3/2 An evening-dressed audience. 1933 P. Godfrey Back-stage xiv. 179 An evening-dressed gentleman. 2004 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 2 Oct. 4 The Hilton bar filled with nattily attired young men and evening-dressed women. † evening-end n. Mining Obsolete (apparently) the western end of an excavation. ΚΠ 1693 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 17 741 This Work..had been wrought from the Day to the Evening-end of the said Work Forty Fathoms..; the Seam or Vein of Copper-Ore then was left above three quarters of a yard thick of good Ore, which Seam or Vein did go from the Evening-end to the Morning-end of the said Work. † evening flower n. [after South African Dutch avondbloem (see aandblom n.)] Botany Obsolete any plant of the southern African genus Hesperantha (family Iridaceae), the members of which have sword-shaped leaves and star-shaped flowers which usually open in the evening; cf. aandblom n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > iris and related flowers > allied flowers ixia1785 tiger-flower1797 Babiana1801 evening flower1801 watsonia1801 Sparaxis1836 montbretia1846 Spanish iris1863 schizostylis1864 romulea1865 Tigridia1866 kaffir lily1884 acidanthera1894 peacock flower1897 1801 J. Barrow Acct. Trav. Interior S. Afr. 1797–8 I. i. 25 The modest Ixia Cinnamomea, of which are two varieties, one called here the Cinnamon, and the other the evening, flower. 1807 Curtis's Bot. Mag. 26 1054 (heading) Hesperantha Cinnamomea. The Cinnamon Evening-Flower. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. Evening flower, Hesperantha. † evening glade n. Astronomy Obsolete the zodiacal light, seen after sunset. ΚΠ 1689 R. Hooke Diary 1 Feb. in R. T. Gunther Early Sci. in Oxf. (1935) X. 94 Observd evening glade at 7½ h. 1714 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 29 66 In the next place he [sc. Cotton Mather] mentions the Evening Glade; first taken notice of by Dr. Childrey, to be constantly observ'd there in February, and a little before and after that Month; adding, that the Cause of that Appearance must be sought for above the Atmosphere. evening gown n. a long, elegant dress suitable for wearing on formal occasions. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > dress, robe, or gown > types of > for specific purpose > for evening wear nightgown1700 evening gown1814 robe de style1909 formal1941 1814 Courier 12 May 1/3 Pink evening gown, edged with a scollop lace in front. 1904 M. E. M. Sangster Good Manners for all Occasions xxii. 287 A young woman..in a white evening gown, low-necked.., with white satin slippers. 2016 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 7 Jan. 15 She dazzled in a sequin-adorned evening gown. evening grosbeak n. a heavily-built, partly migratory finch of northern and western North America, Hesperiphona vespertina, having chiefly brown and yellow plumage with black and white wings. [Probably after scientific Latin Fringilla vespertina, lit. ‘evening finch’, former scientific name (W. Cooper 1825, in Ann. Lyceum Nat. Hist. N.-Y. 1, 220).] ΚΠ 1828 C. L. Bonaparte Amer. Ornithol. II. 76 The specimen of the Evening Grosbeak presented to the Lyceum of New-York by Mr. Schoolcraft, from which Mr. Cooper established the species, was thought until lately the only one in possession of civilized man. 1921 F. S. Mathews Field Bk. Wild Birds & their Music (rev. ed.) 276 The Evening Grosbeak is a boreal species whose winter visitations in the northerly States..are irregular. 2006 Vermont Life Autumn 13 The raucous red-winged blackbirds and evening grosbeaks disappear. evening gun n. Military a gun fired at a set time in the evening, esp. one fired at sunset to mark the end of the day (cf. sunset gun n. at sunset n. Compounds 7). ΚΠ 1744 J. Philips Authentic Jrnl. Exped. Anson 118 We began to fire the Morning and Evening Guns. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Evening Gun, the warning-piece, after the firing of which the sentries challenge. 1942 Life 26 Oct. 128/1 At its last note the evening gun is fired, and the flag is slowly lowered. 2012 K. Candlin Last Caribbean Frontier vi. 118 Thomas Picton regularly took an evening stroll to the sea fort near Marine Square to hear the evening gun shoot off its salute. evening knowledge n. [after post-classical Latin cognitio vespertina (early 5th cent. in St Augustine; also in Aquinas)] Philosophy (chiefly historical) the knowledge of things in their actual nature, as opposed to morning knowledge (morning knowledge n. at morning n., adv., and int. Compounds 5), which is the knowledge of the causes or divine archetypal ideas of things. ΚΠ 1621 R. Jenison Height Israels Idolatrie 31 This knowledge, of S. Augustine is called scientia matutina & diurna, morning and day-knowledge: Or secondly, in the proper natures of the things themselues; and this is called vespertina, euening-knowledge, as being more obscure then the former. 1677 R. Gilpin Dæmonol. Sacra i. iv. 23 Knowledg..from the Effects of Things; which because it is more dark and obscure, than that which ariseth from the Causes of things, they [sc. the schoolmen] tearmed Evening Knowledg. 1836 R. W. Emerson Prospects in Nature viii. 91 The difference between the actual and the ideal force of man is happily figured by the schoolmen, in saying, that the knowledge of man is an evening knowledge,..but that of God is a morning knowledge. 1994 J. P. Walsh Knowl. of Angels 262 He had desired the knowledge of angels, in whom there was no difference between morning knowledge and evening knowledge. † evening-lighted adj. Obsolete illuminated by the light of the evening. ΚΠ 1832 Ld. Tennyson Margaret in Poems (new ed.) 143 From the eveninglighted wood. a1891 E. Bulwer-Lytton King Poppy (1892) 21 Deep in an evening-lighted land,..Upon a radiant eminence reclined The kingly Poppy. evening mass n. a mass celebrated in the evening; (also, without reference to the Eucharist) a religious service taking place in the evening.The exact meaning in quot. 1597 is disputed. Some commentators have suggested that Shakespeare is displaying ignorance of Roman Catholic practice, as at that time mass was usually only celebrated in the morning; others have suggested that he was using the word ‘mass’ in a more general sense to refer to any religious service. [In quot. 1903 after post-classical Latin missa vespertinalis (7th cent.), where the noun has the wider sense mentioned in the etymological note at mass n.¹] ΚΠ 1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iv. i. 38 Are you at leasure holy Father now: Or shall I come to you at euening Masse ? View more context for this quotation 1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe I. iii. 53 The Lady Rowena, who had been absent to attend an evening mass at a distant church, had but just returned. 1903 W. H. Hutton Eng. Saints iii. 122 It was Saturday night, and he [sc. Columba] went to the chapel for the evening mass (as Adamnan still calls the night office). 2010 R. Mullen Call of Camino 59 The church bell was tolling by the time we returned, summoning the villager to evening mass. evening news n. (usually with the) news reports published or broadcast in the evening.Frequently in the titles of newspapers. ΚΠ 1737 Daily Advertiser 10 Oct. A certain Set of Printers having sold a Parcel of Lottery Tickets they are not possess'd of,..have made it a Rule..to usher in their Evening News with a Paragraph insinuating that there are few or no real Buyers of Tickets. 1811 Walker's Hibernian Mag. Sept. 486/1 Just now, the evening newspapers, (for we have morning and evening news more duly than matins or vespers) were announced from the lungs of male and female hawkers. 1836 Republican & Banner (Madison, Indiana) 18 Feb. 3/1 A new daily paper to be published in Louisville, styled the ‘Evening News’. 1855 Manch. Examiner & Times 2 June 4/2 We intend to publish the Manchester Evening News, a Daily Paper for the People, in the Afternoon. 1925 N.Y. Times 17 Dec. 28/4 Today's Radio Program... WOR, Newark—405..7:20 P.M.—Evening News. 1933 Sat. Rev. 1 July 12/1 It has been my fate..to find myself largely dependent on the B.B.C. for my evening news. 1997 B. Dickson in A. Reid & B. D. Osborne Discovering Sc. Writers 12 After the War he took up journalism, working for the Glasgow Evening News. 2007 Independent 18 July (Property section) 11/1 How many of us come home..and..flop out in front of the telly to watch the evening news. evening paper n. a newspaper published later than a morning newspaper, typically so as to be ready for sale or delivery from midday onwards. ΘΚΠ society > communication > journalism > journal > newspaper > [noun] > evening evening paper1720 evening?1796 eveninger1944 1720 Weekly Jrnl., or Brit. Gazetteer 16 Apr. 1579/2 All thy News (except what thou dost steal from the Evening-Papers) is nothing but idle Trash. 1857 C. Dickens Little Dorrit ii. xii. 419 The evening paper was full of Mr. Merdle. 1913 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 22 Feb. 20/1 Everybody within reach of the Paris evening papers is probably reading about the crime. 2001 J. C. Grimwood Pashazade (2003) xiii. 76 Raf skimmed the evening paper she'd just handed him. evening prayer n. religious worship taking place in the evening, spec. the Anglican service of evensong; the ritual or words prescribed for this; also in plural in same sense (cf. prayer n.¹ 4a). ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > canonical hours > vespers, evensong > [noun] evensongOE evesonga1250 evening prayer1539 evening song?1548 evening service1561 vesper1611 vespera1640 vespertine1651 vesper service1797 1539 J. Hilsey Man. Prayers sig. EE.ii^v As we now call the mornynge prayers Matens, and the euenynge prayers Euensonge. a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) ii. ii. 98 A ciuill modest wife..that will not misse you morning nor euening prayer . View more context for this quotation 1653 R. Lovell in E. Nicholas Nicholas Papers (1892) II. 36 M^r D[ean] Cosens, as hee was readeing evening prayer, fell down in a swoone. 1762 J. Wesley Let. 26 Nov. (1931) IV. 365 As soon as Evening Prayer was over, the tide then serving, I took boat at the Bluff for Carolina. 1850 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis II. xi. 104 The bells of the multitudinous city churches were ringing to evening prayers. 1984 M. Richler in G. Lynch & D. Rampton Canad. Ess. (1991) 254 We were obliged to join my grandfather at sunset in the poky little Gallicianer shul around the corner for the evening prayers. 2010 S. Massotty tr. K. Abdolah House of Mosque 11 Hundreds of worshippers had come to the mosque for the evening prayer. evening school n. an evening class or series of classes, usually for adults who work during the day; an institution providing such classes; = night school n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > education > place of education > [noun] > educational institution > other types of academya1583 military school1673 evening school1742 city farm1750 night school1780 school ship1785 neighbourhood school1842 academy school1852 writing school1928 juku1962 1742 Daily Advertiser 6 Nov. (advt.) There is an Evening School at the same Place, from Six to Nine, at which Time any of the 'foremention'd Branches will be taught. 1785 J. Wesley Let. 17 Feb. (1931) VII. 258 I abhor the thought of our master's keeping an evening school. 1832 Chambers' Edinb. Jrnl. 15 Dec. 361/2 On the discovery of his literary taste, Mr. Laidlaw put him to an evening school. 1937 Discovery Sept. p. lxxxi Evening Schools of History and Geography are specially arranged to meet the needs of Adult Students. 2009 Taos (New Mexico) News (Nexis) 15 Jan. c8 She studied law in evening school. evening service n. a religious service taking place in the evening, spec. the Anglican service of evensong; the ritual or words prescribed for such a service. Cf. evening prayer n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > canonical hours > vespers, evensong > [noun] evensongOE evesonga1250 evening prayer1539 evening song?1548 evening service1561 vesper1611 vespera1640 vespertine1651 vesper service1797 1561 Iniunctions Bishop of Norwich sig. A.iv^v Whether the Priestes, and deacons saye daylie the morning and euening seruice, openlye or priuatelye. 1646 Perfect Diurnall No. 131. 1049 Until five of the Clock at furthest in the afternoon, when Evening Service hath bin first performed. 1777 T. Lindsey Let. 18 Dec. (2007) I. 250 As far as I recollect in the evening-service, there is no direct invocation of any but the Father in any but the concluding prayer of Chrysostom's. 1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho I. ii. 53 St. Aubert read, in a low and solemn voice, the evening service. 1826 T. Flint Francis Berrian II. ii. 74 Bryan, deeply affected, retired to a little distance, and began to chant the evening service to the Virgin. 1930 E. H. Young Miss Mole iv. 38 People used to say things. She was never at the Sunday evening service, and that didn't look well, did it? 1966 C. Potok Chosen vii. 101 The Evening Service was over very quickly, and afterward one of the younger men chanted the Havdalah, the brief service that marks the end of the Shabbat. 2008 Christianity Today Feb. 28/1 An evening service featuring songs, readings, and the gradual extinguishing of lights to represent Christ's death. evening song n. (a) Christian Church = evensong n. 1 (now rare); (b) a song or succession of songs sung in the evening, esp. by a bird. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > canonical hours > vespers, evensong > [noun] evensongOE evesonga1250 evening prayer1539 evening song?1548 evening service1561 vesper1611 vespera1640 vespertine1651 vesper service1797 ?1548 L. Shepherd Pore Helpe (new ed.) sig. A.vii These babes..fayne would haue the mattens And eueninge songe [?1548 (ed. 1) eueinge songe] also In Englishe. 1628 T. May tr. Virgil Georgicks i. 20 The fatall owle high mounted at sun set Does not the balefull evening song repeat. 1653 Bp. J. Taylor XXV Serm. xiv. 188 Then it passed from a day of Religion to be a day of order, and from fasting till night, to fasting till evening-song, and evening-song to be sung about twelve a clock. 1660 Bp. J. Taylor Ductor Dubitantium I. ii. ii. §61 Untill the Evening song be finished, for then the Ecclesiastical solemnity is over. 1709 A. Pope Autumn in Poet. Misc.: 6th Pt. vi. 741 The Birds shall cease to tune their Ev'ning Song. 1758 W. Shenstone in R. Dodsley Coll. Poems Several Hands V. 42 When the bell rung For evening-song, His dinner scarce was ended. 1996 P. C. Doherty Tournament of Murders 5 ‘Even though the day be ever so long,’ the landlord intoned. ‘At last the bell rings for evening song.’ 2011 G. Shields Eternal iii. 34 Blackbirds were beginning their evening song. evening suit n. a suit of clothes suitable for formal wear during the evening. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > set or suit of clothes > [noun] > evening dress or dress suit evening suit1807 soup-and-fish1829 white tie1849 tails1857 monkey suit1920 black tie1951 penguin suit1961 1807 Morning Post 2 Mar. An evening suit. 1862 G. Meredith Lett. (1970) I. 166 If you want me to dine, know that I can only do so if you are absolutely alone, having no evening suit. 1912 J. Joyce Let. 11 Sept. (1966) II. 319 My evening suit is in the lower drawer of the wardrobe. 1998 N.Y. Mag. 20 Apr. 50/3 Renée DuMarr offers women's day and evening suits for spring and summer. evening-tide n. now archaic an evening; evening time; = eventide n. ΘΚΠ the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > evening > [noun] evenOE eventideOE eveningOE eventimeOE evea1250 evetimec1300 even whilea1375 evetidea1382 supper timec1390 supper whilea1425 forenight1513 evening-tide1521 supperwardc1563 after-supperc1596 Vesperugo1600 vesper1613 far-day1650 eveg1675 evg1777 dew-falla1822 1521 tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Cyte of Ladyes ii. xxvij. sig. F.ij It happened in an euenynge tyde that they were aduysed to put to effecte in y^e mournynge theyr entrepryse. 1611 Bible (King James) 2 Sam. xi. 2 It came to passe in an euening tide, that Dauid arose from off his bed. View more context for this quotation 1743 R. Blair Grave 37 Behold him! in the Evening-Tide of Life. 1854 C. Dickens Hard Times ii. i. 134 Mrs. Sparsit was conscious that by coming in the evening-tide among the desks and writing implements, she shed a feminine..grace. 2010 Hull Daily Mail (Nexis) 18 Dec. 14 Blue tits are flocking when eveningtide approaches to get into a snug weatherproof nesting box. evening time n. the period of time at the end of the day; the evening; (also figurative) the latter part of something, esp. a person's life. ΚΠ 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Zech. xix. 7 Aboute the euenynge tyme it shal be light. 1632 J. Weemes Explic. Iudiciall Lawes Moses xxv. 89 This was the evening time when women came out to draw water. 1743 W. Wilson (title) The evening-time of the Church of Christ issuing in light. 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby ii. 6 The notes of pianos and harps float in the evening time. 1921 A. L. Gary & E. B. Thomas Centennial Hist. Rush County, Indiana I. 492 [He] has surrounded himself with many..comforts.., giving himself a pleasant prospect of the approaching ‘evening time’ of his life. 2013 Belfast Tel. (Nexis) 9July 3 We run several breakfast seminars..and..events in the evening time as well. evening wear n. (a) the action of wearing on the person during the evening or at night (cf. wear n. 1a); (b) (usually as one word) clothing suitable for formal wear during the evening, esp. as distinct from the more casual styles of day wear; cf. day wear n. at day n. Compounds 3. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > for specific purpose > evening evening dress1782 evening wear1800 wampum and warpaint1876 formal1941 1800 Morning Chron. 16 Jan. (advt.) In order that Ladies may not be disappointed in the ornaments which they purchase for evening wear, T. and Co.'s Rooms will be lighted up every day, from twelve to four o'clock. 1849 Illustr. London News 5 May 296/2 One of the chief novelties of the season, suitable for promenading or for evening wear, is the Poncho. 1930 Daily Express 6 Oct. 5/2 (advt.) Rich quality panne velvet giving a fashionable brilliance for afternoon and evening wear. 1944 M. McLuhan Let. 18 Jan. (1987) 149 Both lectures are in the evening. ‘Smoking’ is formal evening wear here, but I'll check on tails. 1986 O. Clark Diary 11 Dec. (1998) 206 Sandra was very negative on the phone about Carolyne Waters. ‘I don't think she buys much eveningwear.’ 2012 Vintage Life Mar. 16/1 Twenties-inspired eveningwear took centre stage at Gucci with dazzling gold cocktail dresses and Art Deco detailing. Derivatives ˈeveningless adj. poetic and literary having no evening, (hence) not drawing to a close, endless. ΚΠ 1825 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 441 How frequent have I wish'd, That lusty liveliness might prove undying, And eveningless that sunny noon of heart. 1892 W. Hubbard-Kernan Flaming Meteor 230 The song-birds should lilt in an evergreen bower,..And twitter and trill thro' an eveningless hour. 2000 J. M. D'Arcy tr. S. Jakobsdóttir Lodger 39 They would be robbed of the twilight of their lives and there would be nothing before them but an endless, unbroken row of eveningless days. ˈeveningly adv. rare every evening.Chiefly in self-conscious use, on the model of daily. ΚΠ 1777 J. Elphinston Ess. Brit. Liberty 182 What then shall become of those useful alike and entertaining intelligencers..who eveningly, morningly, (why not noonly?) and daily, dispense to the itching ears of every class, the new system of politics? 1844 J. T. J. Hewlett Parsons & Widows II. xxviii. 162 Daily, or, more correctly, eveningly. 1960 J. Barth Sot-weed Factor ii. xxi. 344 He comes out eveningly to poor sweet Portia. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † eveningn.² Forms: Old English–early Middle English efning, early Middle English efenninng (Ormulum), early Middle English effninng (Ormulum), early Middle English efnunge, early Middle English euenig (probably transmission error), early Middle English eueningges (plural), early Middle English heuening, Middle English euening, Middle English euenyng, Middle English euenynge, Middle English eunynge. Origin: Of uncertain origin. Either (i) formed within English, by derivation. Or (ii) a borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymons: even adj.¹, -ing suffix³. Etymology: Either (i) < even adj.¹ + -ing suffix³ (compare evenling n.), probably reinforced by early Scandinavian (compare Old Icelandic jafningi, Old Swedish iämnunge, iämpninge (Swedish jämning), Old Danish jafning (Danish jævning)); or (ii) < early Scandinavian (compare forms cited above).The word is not attested in Old English until the second half of the 11th cent. in a copy of the translation of Bede's Eccl. Hist. of Worcester provenance. It could represent a borrowing from early Scandinavian, but the provenance of the manuscript and the manuscript context of the attestation (see quot. OE) make it seem more likely to have been formed within English; compare slightly later evenling n. N.E.D. (1891) suggested that the word (especially when in predicative use without determiner and as first element in evening rike n. at Compounds) might partly show the reflex of an unattested Old English adverb ( < even adj.¹ + -ing suffix⁴), but none of the Middle English uses are clearly adverbial (evening rike has here been interpreted as a compound of two nouns). Compare, however, Old English efenrīce equally powerful ( < even adv. + rich adj.), efenrīcsian to reign in conjunction, to be co-regnant ( < even adv. + rix v.). In early Middle English perhaps not always clearly distinguished from evening n.³ (compare evening n.³ 1). Obsolete. A person or (occasionally) thing of equal standing, importance, etc.; an equal, a fellow. Cf. evenling n.In predicative use without determiner sometimes analysable as an adjective, with the sense ‘equal’.In quot. OE apparently entered by the scribe as a synonym or alternative to Old English efenhlȳta sharer or partner (compare lot n.), here with reference to sharing of royal dignity.In quot. a1400¹ with reference to the fact of being at the same height. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > a companion or associate > [noun] yferec870 brothereOE ymonec950 headlingOE ferec975 fellowOE friendOE eveningOE evenlinglOE even-nexta1225 compeerc1275 monec1300 companiona1325 partnerc1330 peerc1330 neighbour?c1335 falec1380 matec1380 makec1385 companya1425 sociatec1430 marrow1440 partyc1443 customera1450 conferec1450 pareil?c1450 comparcionerc1475 resortc1475 socius1480 copartner?1504 billy?a1513 accomplice1550 panion1553 consorterc1556 compartner1564 co-mate1576 copemate1577 competitor1579 consociate1579 coach-companion1589 comrade1591 consort1592 callant1597 comrado1598 associate1601 coach-fellow1602 rival1604 social1604 concomitanta1639 concerner1639 consociator1646 compane1647 societary1652 bor1677 socius1678 interessora1687 companioness1691 rendezvouser1742 connection1780 frater1786 matey1794 pardner1795 left bower1829 running mate1867 stable companion1868 pard1872 buddy1895 maat1900 bro1922 stable-mate1941 bredda1969 Ndugu1973 OE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Cambr. Univ. Libr.) iii. xii. 194 Hæfde Oswio se cyning on þam ærestan tidum his rices efenhletan efning [written above efenhletan] þære cynelican wurðnysse [L. consortem regiae dignitatis], þæs nama wæs Oswine, of Edwines cynne þæs cyninges. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 10702 Tatt tu wiþþ þin efenninng Þe metelike lede. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 13674 Þe laþe gast..Þatt wollde ben effninng wiþþ godd. c1225 (?c1200) St. Katherine (Royal) (1981) l. 54 Heo underueng hit þurh þen hali gast so wel þet nannes [a1250 Titus nan ne was] hire euening. a1250 (?c1200) Hali Meiðhad (Titus) (1940) l. 160 Engel & meiden beon euening in uertu of meidenhades mihte. c1275 (?c1250) Owl & Nightingale (Calig.) (1935) l. 772 (MED) Vuel strengþe is lutel wurþ Ac wisdom..naueþ non euening. ?1316 Short Metrical Chron. (Royal) (2002) l. 24 Geomagog hatte here kyng; Me nuste nower ys euenyng. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 11688 Þe crop was euening to [Fairf. euening wiþ, Gött. euen wid] þe rote. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 23392 Þat ilk þan mai þe angels do þat þou sal euening [a1400 Trin. Cambr. euen] þan be to. a1450 (?a1390) J. Mirk Instr. Parish Priests (Claud.) (1974) l. 1117 Hast thow enuyet þyn euenynge? a1500 Eng. Conquest Ireland (Rawl.) (1896) 55 (MED) He was man that none othyr was his eunynge in al goodness, and Ensample of al knyghtys. c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy (2002) f. 36^v Of any erdyng in erthe euenyng to vs. Compounds evening rike n. rare (perhaps) a person equally rich (cf. rich n. 2). ΚΠ a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 28170 Of him þat was myn euening rike, Me it forthoght he was me like. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). eveningn.³ Brit. /ˈiːv(ə)nɪŋ/, /ˈiːvn̩ɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈiv(ə)nɪŋ/ Forms: see even v.¹ and -ing suffix¹. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: even v.¹, -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < even v.¹ + -ing suffix¹. †1. Comparison, compare. Cf. even v.¹ 7a, 8a. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > comparison > [noun] evennessOE eveningc1225 collationc1374 respitea1382 comparison1393 proportion?a1425 resemblance?a1439 comparation1483 comparing1489 commensuration1526 parificationc1537 conferring1561 paragon1590 counter-scale1645 counterbalance1647 collibration1656 confrontation1665 similituding1681 simile1682 confronting1887 c1225 (?c1200) Hali Meiðhad (Bodl.) (1940) l. 64 Heouenliche luren..passið alle oðre wið uten euenunge. c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 102 Her to falleð euenunge [L. comparatio] of ham seolf, of hare cun, of sahe oðer of dede. 2. The action of making something even, or of becoming even (in various senses of even adj.¹); smoothing, levelling.In later use more commonly with following adverb: see Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > flatness or levelness > [noun] > making flat or level planinga1398 evening?a1425 levelling1598 complanation1762 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 98 (MED) 1. [Entension] is euenyng of þe bone; 2. kepyng of it euened. 1463 in E. W. W. Veale Great Red Bk. Bristol: Text Pt. II (1938) 67 No succh fyne for Ivenyng of eany cloth In the Rekk. 1484 Rolls of Parl.: Richard III (Electronic ed.) Parl. Jan. 1484 §26. m. 18 Tayntours..for evenynge of cloth onely after it commeth from the mille and before it be roughed. 1511–12 Act 3 Henry VIII c. 6. §1 in Statutes of Realm (1963) III. 28 Suche byer..may drawe and strayn them [sc. clothes] for evenyng of them oonly. 1525 in J. Stuart Extracts Burgh Rec. Aberdeen (1844) I. 110 The prowest..and communite..consentit to the ewynning of thair Castlehill. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Vniement, an euenning, equalling, planing. 1670 J. Narborough in Acct. Several Late Voy. (1711) i. 73 I saw where the Natives had been by the evening of the Grass. a1732 T. Boston Crook in Lot (1805) 52 The evening of the crook in our lot, by main force of our own, is but a cheat we put on ourselves. a1758 J. Edwards Misc. ccxv, in Wks. (1994) XIII. 343 Mutual attraction, stoppage by attrition, and vis inertiæ of matter, and the gradual evening of the face of the earth. 1985 C. Martin-Jenkins Cricket 210/2 The great increase in the number of Test matches..led to a gradual evening of standards in international cricket during the 1970s. 1997 Daily Variety (Nexis) Sept. (Variety Junior Suppl.) 69 More than any other recent challenger to the Disney crown.., ‘Anastasia’ represents an evening of the playing field. 2002 Jrnl. Internat. Affairs 56 183 Israel faces existential issues through the nearly inevitable evening of population shares between Jews and Arabs within the current state boundaries. †3. Equality, parity. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > [noun] comparison1340 evennessa1398 evenhead?a1400 equipollencec1430 pareil?c1450 equalityc1460 comparation1483 egalness1526 equalness1530 equivalency1535 eveningc1540 equivalencea1542 indifferency1569 owelty1579 coequality1583 mateship1593 equal1596 adequation1605 parity1609 parility1610 matchableness1611 equipollency1623 equiparance1624 egality1628 equipage1633 comparitya1635 omniparity1635 peership1641 exequation1656 equipoise1658 equipotency1658 countervalue1660 adequateness1664 commensurablenessa1676 peerage1681 égalité1794 peerdom1891 c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy (2002) f. 53 Þi maister..That neuer yet of nobley aneuenyng [read an euenyng] to me. Compounds With following adverb, forming nouns of action corresponding to phrasal verbs at even v.¹, as evening-out, evening-up. ΚΠ 1874 Bankers' Mag. July 44 In this way there will be a partial evening up of the accounts between mankind. 1901 Sat. Evening Post 13 Apr. 14/3 While the very excellent luxuries, such as the canvasback and the diamondback, may gradually disappear, there will be an evening-up of the really useful foods. 1930 Econ. Jrnl. 40 408 At first sight this evening-out of supplies seems the only rational procedure, both from the point of view of producers and consumers. 1981 Southern Hort. (N.Z.) Spring 31/2 Containerisation of such material without this evening-out treatment produces trees that are neither wind-firm in the container, nor on the planting site. 2015 B. Spooner Globalization i. 16 What can we do to accelerate the evening out of different rates of progress in different arenas? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹adv.int.OEn.²OEn.³c1225
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