| 单词 | stir-up sunday |
| 释义 | > as lemmasStir-up Sunday 2. Stir-up Sunday (colloquial): the Sunday next before Advent: so called from the opening words of the Collect for the day.The name is jocularly associated with the stirring of the Christmas mincemeat, which it was customary to begin making in that week. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Advent > [noun] > Sunday before Advent Stir-up Sundaya1825 a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Stir-up-Sunday, the last Sunday after Trinity. 1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 297 Stir-up Sunday, the twenty-fifth or last Sunday after Trinity; on which day the Collect in the Book of Common Prayer commences with the words ‘Stir up’, from which this name has arisen. 1867 Hurst Johnian Mag. Dec. 308 Stir-up Sunday. The sermon on this day was preached by the Ven. the Archdeacon of Chichester. 1904 Daily Chron. 30 Nov. 8/4 I believe those who love Christmas most ardently are the boarding school boys and girls, who have just noted with a thrill of joy ‘Stir-up Sunday!’ < as lemmas |
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