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单词 novendial
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novendialadj.n.

Brit. /nə(ʊ)ˈvɛndɪəl/, U.S. /noʊˈvɛndiəl/
Forms: 1600s nouemdiall, 1600s nouendial, 1600s novendiall, 1600s– novendial, 1700s novemdial; also Scottish pre-1700 nouendiall.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin novendiālis, novemdiālis.
Etymology: < classical Latin novendiālis (also novemdiālis) lasting nine days, held on the ninth day (counting inclusively), (noun) a funeral feast held on the ninth day, (in neuter form novendiāle ) a religious festival lasting nine days held to mark the appearance of a portent < novem nine (see novem- comb. form) + diēs day (see diurnal adj. and n.) + -ālis -al suffix1. Compare Middle French, French †novendial (adjective) lasting nine days, held on the ninth day (c1352 in a translation of Livy), (noun) a religious ceremony lasting nine days (1701; French †novemdial ), novemdiales (plural) a religious ceremony lasting nine days (1765), a funeral feast held on the ninth day (1812), nine-day period of mourning for a pope (1928; compare quot. 1924 at sense A.), Italian novendiale (adjective) lasting nine days (1587), (noun) a religious festival lasting nine days (14th cent. in a translation of Livy), nine-day period of mourning for a pope (1841).Compare earlier occurrence of the Latin plural in English context as an unnaturalized loan:1572 R. Harrison tr. L. Lavater Of Ghostes iii. x. 211 Sacrifices for the dead..called Novendialia, which were observed the ninth day.
Now rare.
A. adj.
Of a religious ceremony, etc.: lasting for nine days.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > period > a day or twenty-four hours > [adjective] > of or lasting specific number of days
novendial1533
triduan1597
quadragesimal1610
hebdomadal1612
quinquagesimal1652
tricenary1655
septuary1700
tridiurnal1828
trigesimal1839
trihemeral1840
ninety-day1859
three-day1890
1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1901) I. i. xii. 72 The Romanis..Institute ane new sacrifice, callit in þai dais þe sacrifice nouendiall.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxi. lxii. 429 For the raining of stones in Picenum, there was ordeined a Nouendial feast for nine dayes.
1624 A. Darcie tr. Originall of Idolatries xviii. 74 As the ancient Romane Idolaters had recourse likewise to the Nouemdiall Masse, vpon any monstrous prodigies.
1686 J. Warr tr. Quintilian Declamations xii. 313 Does not even the Novendial Solemnity come too late, when a people is wholly extinct?
1880 E. C. Brewer Reader's Handbk. Allusions (1898) at Novendial Ashes A Novendial holiday, nine days set apart by the Romans in expiation of a shower of stones.
1924 W. B. McDaniel Rom. Private Life 195 (note) We may compare the novendial period of mourning for a pope.
B. n.
(a) A funeral ceremony held on the ninth day after the burial of a deceased person. Now rare. (b) A religious ceremony lasting for nine days. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > [noun] > lasting nine days
novendial1600
novenaryc1633
novena1757
novene1826
the world > life > death > obsequies > commemorative ceremonies > [noun] > religious or mass > on ninth day after funeral
novendial1600
nine night1913
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. i. xxxi. 22 The Romanes..celebrated solemne publicke sacrifices for the space of nine daies, called a Novendiall.
1736 J. Addison tr. Petronius Wks. 129 Scissa kept a Novendial for his servant Misellus, whom he enfranchised after he was dead.
1793 A. Murphy tr. Tacitus Ann. vi. v. (note) Nothing different from a novemdial, or mourning-festival.
1896 Cent. Mag. May 138/2 During the novendial, or nine days succeeding the Pope's death, the celebration of his obsequies and the mourning for his loss are supposed to absorb universal attention.
1930 A. R. Allinson tr. Petronius Satyricon x. 139 Scissa was giving a very elegant nonvendial in memory of her poor old slave.]
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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