单词 | non le |
释义 | non Leadj. rare. Now historical. At Oxford and Cambridge Universities: designating a day of rest, a holiday. Cf. non dis. adj. 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 1636 P. Heylyn Hist. Sabbath ii. 114 [That] the Lords day..should be a non-lee day, a day of rest and ease unto them. 1792 tr. A. Wood Hist. & Antiq. Univ. Oxf. I. 58 The ancient Calendars..wherein the days of the year are distinguished by Le and non Le, dis and non dis. 1845 tr. in G. R. M. Ward Oxf. Univ. Statutes I. p. xxxvi In the Old Calendar..the inauspicious days of the University..meaning those on which lectures and disputations were not usually held, were..marked with ‘Le; Le Fe; Non Le; Dis; Non Dis’. 1904 C. Wordsworth Anc. Kal. Oxf. Univ. 181 There were in old times many holy days which intervened to stop lectures, and these were accordingly called non Le, or non Dis days (or both at once). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1636 |
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