单词 | seventh day |
释义 | seventh dayn.adj. A. n. 1. Saturday, traditionally regarded as the seventh day of the week; the Sabbath observed on a Saturday by Jewish people and some Christian denominations. Also: Sunday regarded as the seventh day of the week or observed as the Sabbath. Cf. First-day adj. ΘΚΠ 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 the world > time > period > a day or twenty-four hours > specific days > [noun] > Saturday SaturdayeOE seventh dayOE fore-sabbath1656 weekend1880 OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) xiv. 148 Se scyppend..on byrgene siððan anbidiende læg on ðam seofoðan dæge, ðe ge sæternes hatað [L. sabbato]. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 6844 Yee sal rest þe seuend dai. a1533 J. Frith Myrroure Sacramente of Baptisme (?1548) sig. C.v The iewes..were commaunded to keepe the Seuenth daye solempne. 1710 O. Sansom Acct. Life 226 On the Seventh Day we went to Youghall, and on the First Day had two Meetings there. 1870 M. D. Conway Earthward Pilgrimage xxviii. 345 The sanctity of the Seventh Day is the survival of the old worship of Ashtaroth. 1872 O. W. Holmes Organ-blower 27 When the seventh day's sunshine falls Through rainbowed windows on the walls. 1880 Libr. Universal Knowl. (at cited word) Traces of seventh-day keepers are found in the days of Gregory I. 2004 Harvard Theol. Rev. 97 316 The observance of the seventh day in the Therapeutae community. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > obsequies > commemorative ceremonies > [noun] > religious or mass > on seventh day after funeral seventh day1462 1462 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1855) II. 256 I wille that I be brought forthe at the day of beriall as my degre askis withouten any seventday. 1527 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1884) V. 238 I witt a quarter wheate and ij barils bere to be delt in the kirke of Hornese opon my sevynt daye. B. adj. 1. Designating a Sabbath observed on the seventh day of the week (Saturday), as opposed to one observed on a Sunday; designating a person, esp. a member of a Christian denomination, who observes Saturday as the Sabbath; of or involving such a denomination.See also Seventh-day Adventist n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Baptists > sects and groups > [adjective] > Seventh-Day seventh day1635 Seventh-day Adventist1861 1635 Bp. F. White Treat. Sabbath-day 156 The Latine Poets also, nick-named the Iewes, and called them, Septimos viros, Seventh day men, because of their observing the seventh day Sabbath. 1684 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) I. 302 The seventh day minister, in Newgate. 1694 E. Chamberlayne Angliæ Notitia (ed. 18) iii. i. 378 Traskitts, now called Seventh-day-men, who keep the Jewish Sabboth. 1829 Evangelical Mag. (Utica, N.Y.) 7 Mar. 197/3 Congress has no constitutional right to pass a law favoring First-day Christians any more than Seventh-day Christians, or Jews, or Mahometans. 1881 Cent. Mag. Dec. 217/1 With this the step was taken that called into existence the sect of Seventh-day Dunkers. 1899 Vermont Watchman 28 June 4/5 Elders Atkins and Leland, Seventh Day adventists..have decided to remain in Barre a year, during which time they hope to found a permanent Seventh Day church. 1956 Biddeford (Maine) Daily Jrnl. 12 Jan. 12/1 On Saturday it could interfere with services in the synagogue, and services for other seventh day denominations. 2011 S. Bryant Awakening of Freewill Baptists ii. 20 Originally those advocating Seventh-day worship were content to worship with First-day Baptists. 2. Of or relating to Sunday observed as the Sabbath. rare. ΚΠ 1885 R. Buchanan Matt iii. 36 I thought her ordinary costume far more becoming than her seventh-day finery. 1952 J. Lait & L. Mortimer U.S.A. Confidential ii. xxiii. 271 The one common factor is seventh-day observance. From Des Moines to Tuscaloosa, Sunday belongs to the church. Compounds Seventh Day Baptist n. a Baptist belonging to a denomination that observes Saturday as the Sabbath; cf. Sabbatarian n. 3. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Baptists > sects and groups > [noun] > Seventh-Day Traskite1618 Traskist1631 Sabbatarian1645 Saturday Sabbatarian1683 Seventh Day Baptist1699 Sabbatharian1719 Seventh-day Adventist1853 Sabbatist1857 1699 J. Wyeth Anguis Flagellatus xix. 458 He was a Seventh-Day Baptist, named Tho. Tillam. 1750 J. Birket Jrnl. 2 Oct. in Voy. N. Amer. (1916) 30 One [church] of the 7th day & one of the first day Baptists. 1977 Washington Post 17 June a2/3 Randolph..who, as a Seventh Day Baptist observes the Saturday Sabbath, introduced the 1972 amendment. 2000 J. Beckman in A. Hastings et al. Oxf. Comp. Christian Thought 634/1 A few groups such as the Free Church of Scotland, Seventh-Day Baptists, and Seventh-Day Adventists continue the sabbatarian tradition. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.OE |
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