| 单词 | high days and holidays |
| 释义 | > as lemmashigh days and holidays 1. A day of great (religious) celebration or solemnity; a holy day; a feast day; (now frequently more generally) a special occasion. In later use frequently in high days and holidays.In quot. OE spec. with reference to Sunday. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > [noun] tidea900 holidayc950 massOE holy-daya1000 mass-dayOE high tideOE holy-tidea1035 good tideOE high dayOE feastc1200 feast dayc1300 ferie1377 festival day1389 solemnity1390 solennityc1400 feastful day1440 festiala1450 festivala1500 sacre1542 panegyry1641 Magdalene-tide1649 church festival1661 surplice day1663 festa1800 festa day1835 fiesta1844 society > leisure > social event > festive occasion > [noun] > day or season of high tideOE high dayOE feast dayc1300 ferie1377 festival day1389 feastful day1440 festivala1500 gaudy-day1567 carnival1598 utas1600 saturnal1605 Saturnalia1639 terminals1656 days of gala1716 fête dayc1759 mirth-day1778 season1791 festa1800 jour de fête1806 fiesta1844 fest1846 Winterval1982 OE Gloria I (Junius) 27 Þone heahan dæg healdað and freoðiaþ ealle þa ðe cunnon cristene þeawas. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 15749 He..wisste. Þatt tær wass sammnedd mikell follc. Þatt heȝhe daȝȝ to frellsenn. a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 215 Ðe hodede..sholde..eche heȝe dai fede mid godes worde þe hungrie soule þe haueð to witen. c1300 St. Thomas Becket (Laud) l. 899 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 132 Þene sonenday þare nas no court i-holde, for it was an heiȝ-day. a1425 (?c1350) Ywain & Gawain (1964) l. 52 Þai saw þam never so On high dayes to chamber go. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) John xix. f. cl That saboth daye was an hye daye. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Baruch i. C Se that ye rede this boke..vpon the hye dayes, and at tyme conuenient. 1632 J. Porter Flowers of Lives of Renowned Saincts 328 Their pouertie would not allow them to eate eyther flesh or fish, vnlesse it were vppon sundaies, and high dayes. a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1651 (1955) III. 35 I stept into the grand Jesuites who had this high day exposd their Cibarium, made all of solid Gold, & imagerie. 1712 W. Rogers Cruising Voy. 42 The Day kept for the Conception of the Virgin Mary, and a high Day of Procession. 1789 M. Madan in New & Literal Transl. Juvenal & Persius II. 82 For festal days. High days and holidays, as we say—as a great treat. 1827 in E. H. Barker Parriana (1828) I. 245 The Guild-day..is a high day at Norwich. 1865 M. Arnold tr. M. de Guérin in Ess. Crit. iii. 90 Here the summer has, even on its highdays and holidays, something mournful. 1920 Living Age 6 Mar. 613/2 The dish of watercress..and the plate of pink sliced ham that meant a highday—all were there. 1970 D. James Raimund & Vienna v. 141 Here vast crowds of people congregated on high days and holidays. 1999 R. Byron Irish Amer. v. 155 Many would have stopped going to church altogether, except for the odd high day or family occasion. 2013 Gloucestershire Echo (Nexis) 24 July 8 One of the tasks delegated to me was..to purchase cakes on colleagues' birthdays and other high days and holidays. < as lemmas |
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