单词 | rest day |
释义 | rest dayn. 1. The day traditionally set aside for rest, the day of rest; the Sabbath, Sunday. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > Sabbath > [noun] rest dayeOE sabbathc950 SundayeOE Lord's daya1225 Sabbath-dayc1380 ceasing-day1382 Dominical day1553 Sabaotha1599 Dominical1638 Shabbos1771 Shabbat1824 the world > time > period > a day or twenty-four hours > specific days > [noun] > Sunday rest dayeOE SundayeOE seventh dayOE worthing dayOE sun's daya1300 day of resta1325 Sabbath-dayc1440 sabbath1509 First-day1649 Sunday sabbath1661 Continental Sunday1856 eOE King Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care (Hatton) (1871) lii. 407 Ða ðe behealdað minne ræstedæg [L. sabbata mea]. OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Mark ii. 27 Sabbatum p[r]opter hominem factum est et non homo propter sabbatum : restdæg fore menn geworden wæs & næs monn fore ræstdæge. OE Wulfstan Christian Life (Hatton) 201 Wite þæt ðu þæne restedæg freolsige georne. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 4186 Þe seffnde daȝȝ iss resste daȝȝ. 1579 J. Harmar tr. J. Calvin Serm. X. Commandementes v. f. 37 This rest day is to assemble vs together, to the end that, according to our infirmitie, we bee better exercised to applie our selues to the seruice of God. 1596 H. Clapham Briefe of Bible ii. 143 No marvell then, if his Rising-day be our Rest-day, and that day we celebrate in meditating of our second Creation and Resurrection. 1640 H. Burton Replie to Relation of Conf. between Laude & Fisher 38 The Sanctification of the Sabbath, or rest day, of the Lord our God, which is now the First day of the weeke. 1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge i. 5 A Jews naked not doing business on his Rest-day. 1701 T. Morer Κυριακη Ὴμερα ii. 203 Every thing in Scripture, as revealed, is positive; and such the Seventh Day is in this Question, which had never been known to be the Rest-day of God, if by another Inspiration it had not been discovered to us. 1848 T. Parker Some Thoughts on Most Christian Use of Sunday 39 Considering..our tendency to material things, and our restless love of work, it seems as if a Moses of the nineteenth century, legislating for us, would enact two rest-days in the week, rather than one. 1894 Daily News 8 Sept. 3/7 This determination of rich publishers to trade on Sundays kept a great industry at work on the rest day. 1902 World To-day Nov. 2109/1 Fultz did not play Sunday ball, and is now the only man in either of the big leagues who declines to work on the rest day. 1933 Times 21 Aug. 6/2 Does Mr. Power remember the..school-masters, for whom already Sunday is a very full day and far from being the rest-day enjoyed by most professions? 2007 C. D. Ringwald Day Apart ix. 229 Sometimes secular Sabbatarians invoke religious doctrine to protect the rest day. 2. a. A day spent in or set aside for rest, esp. as an interlude between periods of activity. 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 1800 J. Lee Jrnl. in M. Thrift Mem. Rev. J. Lee xv. 258 Friday, 24th. We rested at brother Linder's. I found a rest day to be very profitable to me. 1884 A. Roy Irish Lover iii. 34 It was old Mr. Cray's..birthday, and all the hands were off work. And Michael O'Brien meant to make a rest day of it. 1920 Motorman & Conductor Mar. 3/1 He had worked thirty-seven days straight without a break, or without a rest day. 1959 Encounter Aug. 22/1 People were free to prepare their meals at home on ‘rest days’. 1976 J. Snow Cricket Rebel 90 I worked out that we had only one day free from cricket in those last six weeks in Australia apart from the rest days during the Test matches. 1999 Gymnast Mar.–Apr. 9/2 I train 24 hours per week, except for Thursday which is my rest day. b. Originally Military. A day of rest on a march. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > break in a journey > stopping-place on a journey > day of rest on a march rest day1813 1813 R. Wilson Private Diary (1862) II. 206 We shall march on without any rest-day to Frankfort. The army will then repose if the enemy permits. 1897 Cavalry Tactics ii. 7 It is better to lengthen the marches on the moving days than to omit the rest day. 1922 Mil. Surgeon July 100 The number of marching days was 42, the number of rest days was 7. 1999 Backpacker Dec. 119/1 I tried to hobble along and work it out, but it got worse. We took a rest day, then tried again. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.eOE |
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