last dayn.

Brit.

/ˌlɑːs(t) ˈdeɪ/,

/ˌlas(t) ˈdeɪ/, U.S.

/ˌlæs(t) ˈdeɪ/

Forms: see last adv., adj., and n.⁴ and day n.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: last adj., day n.

Etymology: < last adj. + day n. Compare post-classical Latin novissimus dies day of Last Judgement (see note at day n.), dies extremus day of Last Judgement, day of death (both 12th cent. in British sources). Compare final day at day n. 11a.With sense 1a compare Old English lætemest dæg , early Middle English latemest dai (see quots. OE¹, a1275 at latemost adj.), and also the phrases cited at day n. 11.

1. In Christianity and some other religious traditions.

a. With the. The day of the Last Judgement, the end of the world.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > [noun] > ending of existence > the last judgement > day of judgement

last dayc1275

day of doom1340

Great Dayc1350

the last time?1505

day of reckoning1547

accounting day1549

doomsday1578

reckoning day1581

day of accounting1666

society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > biblical events > Second Coming > [noun] > apocalypse

world's endeOE

dayOE

doomsdayc975

world-endOE

'pocalypseOE

last dayc1275

judgementa1325

assize1340

Great Dayc1350

accounta1400

day of retributiona1400

latter day1533

Judgement Day1544

audit1548

after-reckoning1567

revelation-day1654

Fifth monarchy1655

long account1665

account day1671

kingdom come1858

the last (also final, great) round-up1879

eschaton1935

c1275 in C. Brown Eng. Lyrics 13th Cent. (1932) 50 Þenche we on þe laste dai, þat we schule heonne fare Vt of þisse worlde.

c1300 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Otho) (1978) l. 11505 And of his eande nele no Brut ileue. bote hit beo þan laste day at þare mochele dome.

?a1425 tr. Catherine of Siena Orcherd of Syon (Harl.) (1966) 374 Fro þe bigynnyng, whanne I made þe world & also creaturis,..vnto þe last day, I vse & haue do & do what þat euere I do wiþ prouydence.

1533 T. More Answere Poysened Bk. i. xi. f. xlii Though ye se euery man dye here for the whyle, yet I shall..reyse them all vppe..at the laste daye.

1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. clxxxix^v Before the laste daye of iudgement.

1611 Bible (King James) John vi. 39 I should lose nothing, but should raise it vp againe at the last day .

1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan iii. xli. 262 The day of Judgment, (which is therefore also called, the last day).

1706 G. Stanhope Paraphr. Epist. & Gospels III. 525 Do not..provoke him to withdraw those sanctifying Graces from you, which are given you as an Earnest of your Salvation at the last Day.

1734 G. Sale tr. Koran ii. 8 Surely those who believe, and those who Judaize, and Christians, and Sabians, whoever believeth in God, and the last day, and doth that which is right, they shall have their reward with their Lord.

1771 J. Wesley Let. 10 July (1931) V. 264 Suppose you take that term as our Lord does (Matt. xii. 37), where (speaking of the Last Day) he says, ‘By thy words thou shalt be justified.’

1848 Southport (Wisconsin Territory) Tel. 25 Apr. 1/3 The world will probably dine with pleasure up to the last day.

1876 R. D. Osborn Islam under Arabs i. i. 13 Muhammad strove to terrify his tribe into belief by terrific pictures of the Last Day.

1946 E. L. Mascall Christ, Christian & Church vi. 101 The view that..the last Day and the Final Judgment are actually present to Christians now.

2000 K. B. W. Tucker in A. Hastings et al. Oxf. Compan. Christian Thought 7/2 Different artistic media were selected to convey the sense of dread and fulfilment associated with the last day.

b. In plural. Usually with the. The period including and immediately preceding the Last Judgement or end of the world.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > [noun] > ending of existence > the last judgement > last days

last daya1400

lattera1470

latter day1528

last times1611

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 5458 Thinges..þat..suld in last dais bi-tidd.

a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Isa. ii. 2 And in the laste daies [L. in novissimis diebus] the hil of the hous of the Lord schal be maad redi in the cop of hillis.

a1500 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (Hunterian) (1980) 251 Ȝe han tresoryd wretthe and wreche to ȝou in þe laste dayys.

1565 A. Nowell Reproufe f. 74^v The Lorde therefore knowyng that in the last daies there would be so greate confusion of thinges, dooeth commaunde that [etc.].

1649 W. Bartlet Soveraigne Balsome To Rdr. sig. A2 The prophesies of old, mentioned by the holy Apostles of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ himself, concerning the perilousnesse of the last dayes.

1716 M. Hole Pract. Disc. Liturgy Church of Eng. IV. ii. lx. 500 The last Age of the World, call'd in Scripture the last Days, or the latter Times.

1788 tr. I. Mouradgea d'Ohsson Oriental Antiq. 129 Jesus Christ himself, who will appear in the last days.

1840 H. Southgate Narr. Tour through Armenia, Kurdistan, Persia, & Mesopotamia I. Introd. 39 The last [of the Twelve Imams]..will again appear in the last days, to restore the true religion.

1883 R. W. Dixon Mano i. iv. 10 Wherefore the last days seem to be begun.

1905 F. C. Ottman Unfolding of Ages in Revelation of John xviii. 235 The tremendous energy displayed by Satan in the last days.

1942 W. Stegner Mormon Country i. 26 The problems of moving the Saints back to Joseph Smith's divinely-appointed Zion in the event of the last days.

2009 P. Stone Unleashing Beast (2011) vi. 81 Muslims have strong traditions concerning the last days.

a. With possessive. The day of a person's death.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > [noun] > time of

death dayeOE

end-dayOE

ending-daya1300

last dayc1330

bedtime1870

c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) 9862 A word he seyd of grete pite..‘Þurth mi sinne and mi desray Icham comen to mi last day.’

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 23928 On min aun last dai.

a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) 2596 Swilk als his last day fyndes a man..Swilk mon he be demed at þe ende.

c1565 R. Copland Seuen Sorowes Women sig. a.ii^v I haue alway defended them, and wyll to my last day.

1607 T. Dekker & G. Wilkins Iests to make you Merie sig. I1 To a man..whose state (in this world) is desperate, a Sergiant may serue instead of a Deaths head, to put him in minde of his last day.

1684 A. Horneck Delight & Judgment 338 The Person, that lives every Day, as if it were his last Day.

1788 New Lady's Mag. June 320/1 In silent affliction I'll wait my last day, And depart in a decent and Christian way.

1806 Gentleman's Mag. July 677 He..officiated to a numerous congregation to his last day.

1866 J. B. Rose tr. Ovid Fasti ii. 64 Tarquinius fled, the King's last day was come.

1911 J. M. Barrie Peter & Wendy i. 12 She believed to her last day in old-fashioned remedies like rhubarb leaf.

1967 Negro Digest June 71/1 The next morning a girl complains that she has been raped ‘by a colored man’, and Lincoln Charles's last day begins.

2012 P. Pullman Grimm Tales xlix. 391 My daughters, since I don't know when my last day will arrive, I'm going to decide today what each of you shall receive after my death.

b. In plural, with the and of. The concluding period in a person's life, or in the history or duration of an institution, a city, etc.

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

1572 J. Knox Answer Let. Tyrie sig. F.j (margin) The moste part of Iohn Knox preaching in the last dayes of King Edward was of trouble approaching.

1678 W. D. tr. F. de La Mothe Le Vayer Notitia Historicorum Selectorum ii. 216 His Annals..have a farther beginning, treating of the last daies of Augustus.

1719 J. Floyer Expos. Revelations vi. 18 The three Heads of the Eagle, are three Kingdoms to be in the last Days of the Roman Empire.

1787 A. Hawkins tr. V. Mignot Hist. Turkish Empire III. 83 Kiosem, the valid sultaness,..had so prepared the minds of the people during the last days of the emperor, that as soon as he was dead, [etc.].

1834 E. Bulwer-Lytton (title) The last days of Pompeii.

1871 P. M. Taylor Student's Man. Hist. India vii. v. 600 There arose a cloud which overshadowed the last days of Lord Hastings's administration.

1918 F. Riesenberg Under Sail Introd. 2 They..forged the link between..between the last days of sail and the great new present of the America of steam and steel.

1971 Illustr. Weekly India 18 Apr. 4/2 In the last days of the Raj, the British were the only people who wished to keep India united.

2010 L. Menashe Moscow believes in Tears v. 230 A horribly bleak Soviet period, the last days of Stalin.

3. With or †without the. Yesterday. Now Scottish regional.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > relative time > the past > yesterday > [noun]

yesterdayOE

last dayc1450

yestera1500

yest1684

yestern1807

c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 2785 Twa..Þat lost was now þe last day.

a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) II. 501 Com on with me, for we woll go se thys man that my lorde brought frome the foreste the laste day.

a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) ii. i. sig. C.iij^v Loe yond the olde nourse that was wyth vs last day.

1625 F. Bacon Apophthegmes 65 The Courtier which was the Meane, sollicited Vespasian, soone after, about his Sute: Why (saith Vespasian) I gaue it, last day, to a Brother of mine.

1691 Hutcheson's 45 Serm. on CXXX Psalm xxvii. 295 Needy Saints, who are put to live by Faith and Hope, ought to be, and will be much conversant with the Word: I spoke to it the last day.

1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess i. 14 Auld Magy Procter speer'd at me, last day.

1789 R. Burns Petition Bruar Water in Edinb. Rev. Nov. 357/2 Last day I grat wi' spite and teen, As Poet B—— came by.

1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words I Last-day, yesterday. West.

1864 St. Andrews Gaz. 30 Apr. A person who last day obtained a grocer's certificate.

1898 Shetland News 20 Aug. Sibbie brook me bit o' inseam alishen da last day.

2005 Sc. National Dict. New Suppl. (Electronic text) at Last, adj., adv., n.1 *Gall[oway]. 1999: A saw him the last day.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	last day
释义	last dayn. Brit. /ˌlɑːs(t) ˈdeɪ/, /ˌlas(t) ˈdeɪ/, U.S. /ˌlæs(t) ˈdeɪ/ Forms: see last adv., adj., and n.⁴ and day n. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: last adj., day n. Etymology: < last adj. + day n. Compare post-classical Latin novissimus dies day of Last Judgement (see note at day n.), dies extremus day of Last Judgement, day of death (both 12th cent. in British sources). Compare final day at day n. 11a.With sense 1a compare Old English lætemest dæg , early Middle English latemest dai (see quots. OE¹, a1275 at latemost adj.), and also the phrases cited at day n. 11. 1. In Christianity and some other religious traditions. a. With the. The day of the Last Judgement, the end of the world. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > [noun] > ending of existence > the last judgement > day of judgement last dayc1275 day of doom1340 Great Dayc1350 the last time?1505 day of reckoning1547 accounting day1549 doomsday1578 reckoning day1581 day of accounting1666 society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > biblical events > Second Coming > [noun] > apocalypse world's endeOE dayOE doomsdayc975 world-endOE 'pocalypseOE last dayc1275 judgementa1325 assize1340 Great Dayc1350 accounta1400 day of retributiona1400 latter day1533 Judgement Day1544 audit1548 after-reckoning1567 revelation-day1654 Fifth monarchy1655 long account1665 account day1671 kingdom come1858 the last (also final, great) round-up1879 eschaton1935 c1275 in C. Brown Eng. Lyrics 13th Cent. (1932) 50 Þenche we on þe laste dai, þat we schule heonne fare Vt of þisse worlde. c1300 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Otho) (1978) l. 11505 And of his eande nele no Brut ileue. bote hit beo þan laste day at þare mochele dome. ?a1425 tr. Catherine of Siena Orcherd of Syon (Harl.) (1966) 374 Fro þe bigynnyng, whanne I made þe world & also creaturis,..vnto þe last day, I vse & haue do & do what þat euere I do wiþ prouydence. 1533 T. More Answere Poysened Bk. i. xi. f. xlii Though ye se euery man dye here for the whyle, yet I shall..reyse them all vppe..at the laste daye. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. clxxxix^v Before the laste daye of iudgement. 1611 Bible (King James) John vi. 39 I should lose nothing, but should raise it vp againe at the last day . View more context for this quotation 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan iii. xli. 262 The day of Judgment, (which is therefore also called, the last day). 1706 G. Stanhope Paraphr. Epist. & Gospels III. 525 Do not..provoke him to withdraw those sanctifying Graces from you, which are given you as an Earnest of your Salvation at the last Day. 1734 G. Sale tr. Koran ii. 8 Surely those who believe, and those who Judaize, and Christians, and Sabians, whoever believeth in God, and the last day, and doth that which is right, they shall have their reward with their Lord. 1771 J. Wesley Let. 10 July (1931) V. 264 Suppose you take that term as our Lord does (Matt. xii. 37), where (speaking of the Last Day) he says, ‘By thy words thou shalt be justified.’ 1848 Southport (Wisconsin Territory) Tel. 25 Apr. 1/3 The world will probably dine with pleasure up to the last day. 1876 R. D. Osborn Islam under Arabs i. i. 13 Muhammad strove to terrify his tribe into belief by terrific pictures of the Last Day. 1946 E. L. Mascall Christ, Christian & Church vi. 101 The view that..the last Day and the Final Judgment are actually present to Christians now. 2000 K. B. W. Tucker in A. Hastings et al. Oxf. Compan. Christian Thought 7/2 Different artistic media were selected to convey the sense of dread and fulfilment associated with the last day. b. In plural. Usually with the. The period including and immediately preceding the Last Judgement or end of the world. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > [noun] > ending of existence > the last judgement > last days last daya1400 lattera1470 latter day1528 last times1611 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 5458 Thinges..þat..suld in last dais bi-tidd. a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Isa. ii. 2 And in the laste daies [L. in novissimis diebus] the hil of the hous of the Lord schal be maad redi in the cop of hillis. a1500 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (Hunterian) (1980) 251 Ȝe han tresoryd wretthe and wreche to ȝou in þe laste dayys. 1565 A. Nowell Reproufe f. 74^v The Lorde therefore knowyng that in the last daies there would be so greate confusion of thinges, dooeth commaunde that [etc.]. 1649 W. Bartlet Soveraigne Balsome To Rdr. sig. A2 The prophesies of old, mentioned by the holy Apostles of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ himself, concerning the perilousnesse of the last dayes. 1716 M. Hole Pract. Disc. Liturgy Church of Eng. IV. ii. lx. 500 The last Age of the World, call'd in Scripture the last Days, or the latter Times. 1788 tr. I. Mouradgea d'Ohsson Oriental Antiq. 129 Jesus Christ himself, who will appear in the last days. 1840 H. Southgate Narr. Tour through Armenia, Kurdistan, Persia, & Mesopotamia I. Introd. 39 The last [of the Twelve Imams]..will again appear in the last days, to restore the true religion. 1883 R. W. Dixon Mano i. iv. 10 Wherefore the last days seem to be begun. 1905 F. C. Ottman Unfolding of Ages in Revelation of John xviii. 235 The tremendous energy displayed by Satan in the last days. 1942 W. Stegner Mormon Country i. 26 The problems of moving the Saints back to Joseph Smith's divinely-appointed Zion in the event of the last days. 2009 P. Stone Unleashing Beast (2011) vi. 81 Muslims have strong traditions concerning the last days. 2. a. With possessive. The day of a person's death. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [noun] > time of death dayeOE end-dayOE ending-daya1300 last dayc1330 bedtime1870 c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) 9862 A word he seyd of grete pite..‘Þurth mi sinne and mi desray Icham comen to mi last day.’ a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 23928 On min aun last dai. a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) 2596 Swilk als his last day fyndes a man..Swilk mon he be demed at þe ende. c1565 R. Copland Seuen Sorowes Women sig. a.ii^v I haue alway defended them, and wyll to my last day. 1607 T. Dekker & G. Wilkins Iests to make you Merie sig. I1 To a man..whose state (in this world) is desperate, a Sergiant may serue instead of a Deaths head, to put him in minde of his last day. 1684 A. Horneck Delight & Judgment 338 The Person, that lives every Day, as if it were his last Day. 1788 New Lady's Mag. June 320/1 In silent affliction I'll wait my last day, And depart in a decent and Christian way. 1806 Gentleman's Mag. July 677 He..officiated to a numerous congregation to his last day. 1866 J. B. Rose tr. Ovid Fasti ii. 64 Tarquinius fled, the King's last day was come. 1911 J. M. Barrie Peter & Wendy i. 12 She believed to her last day in old-fashioned remedies like rhubarb leaf. 1967 Negro Digest June 71/1 The next morning a girl complains that she has been raped ‘by a colored man’, and Lincoln Charles's last day begins. 2012 P. Pullman Grimm Tales xlix. 391 My daughters, since I don't know when my last day will arrive, I'm going to decide today what each of you shall receive after my death. b. In plural, with the and of. The concluding period in a person's life, or in the history or duration of an institution, a city, etc. 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 1572 J. Knox Answer Let. Tyrie sig. F.j (margin) The moste part of Iohn Knox preaching in the last dayes of King Edward was of trouble approaching. 1678 W. D. tr. F. de La Mothe Le Vayer Notitia Historicorum Selectorum ii. 216 His Annals..have a farther beginning, treating of the last daies of Augustus. 1719 J. Floyer Expos. Revelations vi. 18 The three Heads of the Eagle, are three Kingdoms to be in the last Days of the Roman Empire. 1787 A. Hawkins tr. V. Mignot Hist. Turkish Empire III. 83 Kiosem, the valid sultaness,..had so prepared the minds of the people during the last days of the emperor, that as soon as he was dead, [etc.]. 1834 E. Bulwer-Lytton (title) The last days of Pompeii. 1871 P. M. Taylor Student's Man. Hist. India vii. v. 600 There arose a cloud which overshadowed the last days of Lord Hastings's administration. 1918 F. Riesenberg Under Sail Introd. 2 They..forged the link between..between the last days of sail and the great new present of the America of steam and steel. 1971 Illustr. Weekly India 18 Apr. 4/2 In the last days of the Raj, the British were the only people who wished to keep India united. 2010 L. Menashe Moscow believes in Tears v. 230 A horribly bleak Soviet period, the last days of Stalin. 3. With or †without the. Yesterday. Now Scottish regional. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > yesterday > [noun] yesterdayOE last dayc1450 yestera1500 yest1684 yestern1807 c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 2785 Twa..Þat lost was now þe last day. a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) II. 501 Com on with me, for we woll go se thys man that my lorde brought frome the foreste the laste day. a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) ii. i. sig. C.iij^v Loe yond the olde nourse that was wyth vs last day. 1625 F. Bacon Apophthegmes 65 The Courtier which was the Meane, sollicited Vespasian, soone after, about his Sute: Why (saith Vespasian) I gaue it, last day, to a Brother of mine. 1691 Hutcheson's 45 Serm. on CXXX Psalm xxvii. 295 Needy Saints, who are put to live by Faith and Hope, ought to be, and will be much conversant with the Word: I spoke to it the last day. 1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess i. 14 Auld Magy Procter speer'd at me, last day. 1789 R. Burns Petition Bruar Water in Edinb. Rev. Nov. 357/2 Last day I grat wi' spite and teen, As Poet B—— came by. 1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words I Last-day, yesterday. West. 1864 St. Andrews Gaz. 30 Apr. A person who last day obtained a grocer's certificate. 1898 Shetland News 20 Aug. Sibbie brook me bit o' inseam alishen da last day. 2005 Sc. National Dict. New Suppl. (Electronic text) at Last, adj., adv., n.1 *Gall[oway]. 1999: A saw him the last day. 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