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OE Blickling Homilies 67 Hælend cwom syx dagum ær Iudea eastrum, to Bethania.

OE West Saxon Gospels: Mark (Corpus Cambr.) xiv. 1 Soþlice þa æfter twam dagum wæron eastron.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. ix. xxxi. 546 Ester hatte pascha in grewe..and is iclepid in ebrewe phase, þat is ‘passinge oþir passage’.

c1450 (c1400) Bk. Vices & Virtues (Huntington) (1942) 131 (MED) Wiþ grete desire I haue desired þis Eestren, þat is þis Paske.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ezek. xlv. 21 Vpon y^e xiiij. daye of the first moneth ye shal kepe Easter.

1563 2nd Tome Homelyes Whitsunday i, in J. Griffiths Two Bks. Homilies (1859) ii. 453 Easter, a great, and solemne feast among the Jewes.

1611 Bible (King James) Acts xii. 4 Intending after Easter to bring him foorth. View more context for this quotation

1662 P. Gunning Paschal or Lent-Fast 37 S. Iohn and S. Philip finding it usefull..to observe the Christian Easter on the same day with the Jewish Easter.

1792 J. Douglas Disc. Infl. Christian Relig. xii. 213 The catastrophe took place at the celebration of Easter, when the Jews had flocked to the city from the distant regions of the empire.

1812 Port Folio Sept. 297 An extract from two Hebrew works on the Jewish easter.

1883 J. L. Meagher Festal Year viii. 281 The Jews held their Easter on the fourteenth moon of the month of March.

1934 Times 24 Dec. 9/6 During the 14 years from A.D. 20 to 33 the only year in which the Jewish Easter (15 Nisan) fell on a Friday was the year 27.

1973 Adolescent Psychiatry 3 60 Hence, the English name Passover for the Jewish Easter.

2004 J. Lloyd tr. J. Pérez Spanish Inquisition 19 They..ceased all activities on the day of the sabbath, recited Jewish prayers, celebrated Jewish Easter and other festivals.