† midlentenn.
Obsolete. rare in later use.
= mid-Lent n. Chiefly in midlenten Sunday n. = mid-Lent Sunday n. at mid-Lent n. Compounds.
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midlentenOE
mid-fastenOE
mid-Lenta1450
Magnificet1841
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Sunday of RefreshmentlOE
midlenten Sunday1389
mid-Lent Sundayc1425
Phagiphanyc1450
mid-fast Sunday1480
Mothering Sunday1783
Refreshment Sunday1825
Refection Sunday1852
Laetare1870
OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Tiber. B.i) anno 1050 Þa hæfde Eadwerd cing witena gemot on Lunden to midlencten.
lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1094 Þær æfter to midlengtene ofer sæ for into Normandige.
1389 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 91 (MED) Ye first morwespeche shal ben after ye drynke..ye yridde shal ben ye sunday in mydlentoun.
1389 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 116 The first mornspeche, of Trinite sunday..the fourt, on midlentene sunday.
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xvi. 172 Þanne mette I with a man a mydlenten sondaye.
a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Merlin (1913) II. l. 9898 Hit schal be midlentone, er þat ȝe go.
a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) ii. xx. sig. r.iiv On sonday in mydlenton, the viii. hour.
1535 MS Rec. Aberdeen XVI in Jamieson's Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (1880) III. 273/1 Betuix this & Sonday mydlentrene nixt to cum.
1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 3 Apr. 10/2 A tragical finale to the gaieties of the Mid-Lenten Carnival.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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