| 单词 | saint's day |
| 释义 | > as lemmassaint's day saint's day n. (a) a day set apart by the Church for observing the memory of a saint; (b) = name day n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > [noun] > of saint commemorationa1400 suffragesa1400 saint's daya1450 memorial?1471 feast1559 memoration1563 name day1721 fête1805 Hallow-daya1825 calendar-day1847 fête day1877 slava1900 a1450 J. Myrc Festial 267 Þogh we halowen but few sayntes~dayes, ȝet we ben full neclygent yn oure seruyce. 1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 473 I cannot find..that we can trace what we call the Saints'-Days higher than the eighth or ninth Century. 1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre II. vi. 175 Eliza was gone to attend a saint's-day service at the New Church. 1863 N. Hawthorne Our Old Home II. 100 On a Sunday or Saint's day. 1943 E. M. Almedingen Frossia iii. 149 It is my saint's day, we have guests coming. 1980 ‘J. le Carré’ Smiley's People xxiii. 272 Felicity had called her in..to have Russian company on her saint's day. < as lemmas |
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