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Sundayn.adv. Origin: A word inherited from Germanic; modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymology: Cognate with or formed similarly to Old Frisian sunnandei , Old Saxon sunnondag , Middle Low German sunnendach , sondach , Middle Dutch sonnendach , sondach (Dutch zondag ), Old High German sunnūntag (Middle High German sunnentac , sunnetac , suntac , German Sonntag ) < the genitive of the Germanic base of sun n.1 + the Germanic base of day n., after classical Latin diēs sōlis. Compare Hellenistic Greek ἡμέρα ἡλίου. Compare Old Icelandic sunnudagr, Old Swedish sunnodagher (Swedish söndag), Swedish sundagh, Danish søndag, apparently after forms in West Germanic languages.The Latin days of the week in imperial Rome were named after the planets, which in turn were named after gods (see discussion at week n.). In most cases the Germanic names have substituted for the Roman god's name that of a comparable one from the Germanic pantheon. In the case of Sunday (as also of Monday ), the name of the planet (which the sun was considered in the classical period to be) and the god were the same. The Romance languages continue the alternative post-classical Latin name dies dominicus (see Lord's day n.). In early religious use, Sunday is sometimes used to render post-classical Latin sabbatum (normally denoting Saturday: see sabbath n.), because they were both names for days of rest. Compare later uses of English Sabbath to denote Sunday (see sabbath n. 1b). A. n.society > faith > worship > liturgical year > Sabbath > [noun] the world > time > period > a day or twenty-four hours > specific days > [noun] > Sunday α. eOE (Corpus Cambr. 173) iii. 90 Gif ðeowmon wyrce on Sunnandæg be his hlafordes hæse, sie he frioh. OE Byrhtferð (Ashm.) (1995) ii. iii. 118 Þæs Sunnandæges nama wæs of þære sunnan. ?a1160 (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1154 Þa was he..to king bletcæd in Lundene on þe Sunnendæi beforen midwintre dæi. c1175 (Burchfield transcript) l. 4360 Swa comm ure sunenndaȝȝ Affterr þatt wukess ende. a1325 (c1250) (1968) l. 261 Ihesus..Ros fro ded on ðe sunenday. J. Gaytryge (York Min.) (1901) 6 Openly on Inglis opon sononndaies Teche and preche thaim that thai haue cure of. a1400 (Vesp.) 985/1* On sononnday in þe daghyng, he ros fro ded to liue. ?a1425 (Egerton) (1889) 10 On þe Setirday and on þe Sonounday. c1440 ( J. Gaytryge Lay Folks' Catech. (Thornton) in G. G. Perry (1914) 5 The thirde commandement es, þat we halde and halowe oure haly day, þe Sonondaye. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour (St. John's Cambr.) v. 335 The folk apon the Sononday [1489 Adv. Sonounday] Held to Sanct brydis kirk thar way. 1520 39 61 Ilk nycbour to mak vp his dykes and rowmis betuix this and Sonendaye nixt to com. the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > best > to be worn on a Sunday 1780 C. Dibdin ii. vi. 37 His dinner finish'd, up he rose, Stalk'd, sighing, silently and slow, To where were hung his Sundays. 1839 C. M. Kirkland xxxv. 239 Alice and Arthur figured in their Sundays, little Bell had a new calico apron. 1901 ‘M. Twain’ in Nov. 26/2 Tommy was..not in his Sundays, but in his dreadful work-clothes. 1944 E. Carr 89 Neither of them noticed the dust on his ‘Sundays’ as they smiled off down the street. 2005 F. Tanner iv. 97 I was in my bib overalls and work shirt, but I didn't know that anyone was supposed to dress in their Sundays to see an important man come by in a car. society > communication > journalism > journal > newspaper > [noun] > Sunday 1841 C. Dickens (1969) II. 225 The Sundays we may leave alone. 1949 E. J. P. Benn x. 116 The Sundays and Weeklies were outside the squabbles of the Dailies. 1976 T. Stoppard 9 They each carry several newspapers, a whole crop of the day's papers and the Sundays. 1991 28 Apr. 22/1 The Observer, however, has always been The Observer and has throughout been a Sunday. 2005 N. Laird 138 He thought of a terrorist he'd read about in the Sundays recently. B. adv.OE (Northumbrian) xxiii. 56 Sabbato quidem siluerunt secundum mandatum : synnadæg ec soð swigadun æfter bibode. a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris (1868) 1st Ser. 139 (MED) Sunnedei ah efri cristenne Mon nomeliche to chirche cume. 1340 (1866) 212 (MED) Ac specialliche and more deuouteliche me ssel him bidde at cherche þane zonday. c1400 (a1376) W. Langland (Trin. Cambr. R.3.14) (1960) A. v. l. 202 (MED) He slepte satirday & sonneday til sonne ȝede to reste. 1590 34 Sunday at masse there was old ringing of Bels. 1646 Prince Rupert Jrnl. 1 Mar. in (1898) 13 740 Sunday, a partie from Oxford, surprise Abingdon; but were beatten out. 1756 T. Amory I. 475 Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and the other women, went with spices and ointments to embalm the body, Sunday the 28th of April, early in the morning. 1874 J. Fiske 17 Feb. (1940) 306 We had Boston brown bread and baked beans for breakfast Sunday. 1937 Apr. 165/2 Did you throw out the bones of that standing rib roast you had Sunday? 2003 (Midwest ed.) 21 Sept. vii. 15/2 The show..ends Sunday at Theatre at the Center. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 199 (MED) Þere was i-made þe manere seienge of þe credo þat is i-songe þe Sondayes [c1400 Tiber. Sondawes; L. diebus Dominicis] in holy chirche aȝenste heretikes. 1618 S. Argall in A. Brown (1898) 278 Every person to go to church Sundays and holidays—or lie neck and heels on the Corps du Gard ye night following and be a slave ye week following. 1774 J. Burgoyne iii. iii. 47 And would you really love me dearly now, Saturdays and Sundays and all. 1838 J. F. Cooper II. xiv. 224 I hold that a skipping-rope is worse than the Jack of spades, sundays or week days. 1897 W. D. Howells 65 When the husbands come up Saturday nights, they don't want to go on a tramp Sundays. They want to lay off and rest. 2001 E. Wright xiv. 119 I could've stayed home Sundays instead of trundling down to Hamilton every Christly week to visit her sister. Phrasessociety > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > mid-Lent > [noun] > Sunday in society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Holy Week > [noun] > Palm Sunday lOE (Laud) (Peterborough interpolation) anno 963 Þe arcebiscop of Cantwarbyrig Sancte Dunstan him gehalgod to biscop on þe fyrste Sunnondæg of Aduent. c1325 (c1300) (Calig.) l. 10178 (MED) Þe bissopes..þe sonenday of þe passion amansede alle þe Þat avilede so holichirche. c1410 tr. R. Higden (St. John's Cambr.) (1879) VII. 143 Þe emperour comynge ones on þe Sonday of Quynquagesme to a chapel beside þe forest, þat he myȝte prively here a masse. a1475 in A. Clark (1905) i. 194 (MED) Yeldyng therof yerely to the same Abbesse and Covent of Godestow..the Sonday of Sexagesyme fyfty shillyngis..for all seculer seruyce and demaunde. 1570 J. Foxe (rev. ed.) I. 653/1 (heading) A Sermon no lesse godly than learned, preached at Paules crosse on the Sonday of Quinquagesima, an. 1389. by R. Wimbledon. 1675 W. Dugdale I. 246 He ordained three Masses every day to be sung;..the second without Note, of Requiem, viz. The Sunday of the Trinity. 1692 tr. J. Abudacnus x. 17 Baptism is solemnly celebrated twice in the Year, first on the Sunday of the Pentecost, and then on the Sunday of the Passion. 1710 C. Wheatley (1720) v. §12. 225 The fourth [Sunday in Lent] is with us generally called Midlent Sunday; tho' Bishop Sparrow, and some others, term it, Dominica Refectionis, the Sunday of Refreshment. 1821 J. Scott 280 In the sacristie, the blood of Christ is preserved in a phial, which is exposed on the Sunday of the passion. 1829 W. Irving (1835) ii. 14 It was on Saturday, the eve of the Sunday of Palms. 1841 W. Burder iii. ii. 255 We must not omit that the Sunday of the golden rose is called Lætare. 1904 E. Noyes i. 18 On the Sunday of the Passion the citizens watched a pompous procession of galleys. 1995 (Nexis) 25 May b14 It is symbolic of the martyrs, who often spilled their blood for their beliefs, and it is used on the Sunday of the Passion, Good Friday and Pentecost. 2004 M. Stroll i. 71 Thereafter they traveled on to Vienne, where Calixtus was crowned on February 9, the Sunday of ‘quinquagesima’. P2. colloquial. the world > time > frequency > infrequency > infrequently or it rarely happens [phrase] > never a1605 W. Haughton (1616) sig. D2 Yes marry when two Sundayes come together. 1670 J. Ray 194 When two Sundays meet. 1736 J. Kelly 25 Aux calendes grecques, never; when two Sundays come together. 1788 F. Grose (ed. 2) at Saint Geoffrey's Day Tomorrow-come-never, when two Sundays come together. 1828 W. Carr (ed. 2) (at cited word) ‘When two Sundays come togither’, an impossibility. 1854 A. E. Baker II. 310 ‘When two Sundays meet’, or, ‘When we have a month o' Sundays’, are phrases expressive of impossibilities. 1922 F. E. Clark xxxvii. 426 A reluctant father promises his daughter to a suitor when two Sundays come together in one week. 1990 E. Coffman xvi. 355 Smiling slightly, he said, ‘Come here.’ ‘When two Sundays come together.’ He laughed. the world > time > duration > [noun] > long duration or lasting through time > a long time 1759 I. x. 121 The commander..swore he should dance to the second part of the same tune, for a month of Sundays. 1831 12 Feb. 98/1 Your critter looks for all the world as if she had nothing to eat for a month of Sundays. 1838 (Amer. ed.) II. 608 So Jem he ups with his fist, and was just a-going' to let drive in a way as would have sp'ilt his beauty for a week of Sundays. 1852 R. Morris 116 You would never guess, never in a month of Sundays. 1884 ‘H. Collingwood’ 269 Don't be a month of Sundays about it. 1923 G. Saintsbury 137 I could preach against drunkenness for a month of Sundays and hardly repeat myself. 1948 M. Deasy iv. 43 I could have argued with the woman for a week of Sundays and never come nearer to bringing her around. 1959 A. Sillitoe 129 ‘Not in a month of Sundays,’ he laughed, ‘but they had a bleddy good try.’ 1970 R. Greaves tr. C. de Rivoyre i. 32 You'd never have trampled Papa,..not in a week of Sundays. 1989 No.138. 19 I knew that I'd never wear this sort of gear in a month of Sundays. 2003 Mar. 20 (advt.) You'll experience more during this fun-filled photographic weekend than in a month of Sundays. P3. colloquial. a. 1777 W. Tooke tr. Lett. in tr. E. M. Falconet & D. Diderot 62 This manner of looking has existed no where, that I know of, but in the proverb, He looks two ways for Sunday [Fr. il regarde du côté de la Bourgogne pour voir si la Champagne brûle]; or in this, He has one eye at St. Paul's and the other at Charing-cross. 1811 at Squint-a-pipes A squinting man or woman; said to be born in the middle of the week, and looking both ways for Sunday. 1833 J. Galt II. 194 Ye want to ken mine [sc. name]?—but ye'll look two ways for Sunday before I'm explicit. 1869 A. Macdonald xxi. 451 He has..a bad squint, so that..he seemed to be looking two ways for Sunday. 1996 C. I. Macafee 210/1 Look seven ways for Sunday, squint. 1824 Mar. 260 The careless good for nothing feller, he's always looking about six ways for Sunday, when he's walking. 1892 ‘Q’ vii. 124 Far as I could see you've done naught but fidget like an angletwitch and look fifty ways for Sunday. 1909 Nov. 234/3 Get at it and stop looking nine ways for Sunday. 1991 J. Still 107 When you cross it to the mailbox, if you don't want yourself ironed out, you'd better look both ways for Sunday. 1832 July 575 A hat that stands nine ways for Sunday. 1836 T. C. Haliburton 1st Ser. ix. 49 With their hair lookin a thousand ways for Sunday. 1865 in (1942) 26 297 We toar down the fences and piled the rails on the track and seting fire to it warped Two ways for sunday. 1869 39 Red hairs in abundance stood six ways for Sunday. 1890 Dec. 147/1 My legs they went nine ways for Sunday on the instant. 1920 Nov. 71 You're going to give me the cleanest shave I ever had, or I'll lick you seven ways from Sunday. 1932 P. M. Green 19 Mar. (1994) 200 Well I've let my tongue run on two ways for Sunday. And the gossip is confidential. 1996 S. Gould 214 Well enough—except for having my constitutional rights violated six ways from Sunday. 2003 ‘Zane’ xiii. 80 Before it was over, said and done, Jerry had fucked me six ways from Sunday. society > leisure > [noun] > a period of > day or night 1837 C. M. Sedgwick ix. 100 But I did not have my Sunday out last Sunday, you know, Mrs. Ferris. 1864 F. Locker i. 6 Thou canst not stir, because 'tis not Thy Sunday out. 1896 A. E. Housman xxv. 36 Rose Harland on her Sundays out Walked with the better man. 1909 G. Stein 40 She made herself always fulfill her own ideal of how a girl should look when she took her Sundays out. Compounds C1. General attributive. See also Sunday school n. and adj.c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 1351 The Sonday nyght er day bigan to sprynge..Palamon the larke herde synge. a1475 in A. Clark (1906) ii. 602 ij lampes to be susteyned with oyle..j lampe brennynge thurgh all the sonday nyghtes. ?1536 (c1443) Batayll of Egyngecourte 186 in W. C. Hazlitt (1864) II. 101 Of truse we wyll beseche the, Vntyll that it be sunday noone, And yf we may not recouered be We will delyuer the towne. 1572 T. Achelley 292 (heading) A prayer for Sunday morning. 1629 J. Wadsworth iii. 18 On Sunday morning at six of the clocke they hye to their studies. 1650 J. Howell tr. A. Giraffi 181 The most civill sort of these did hate him, specially since the Sunday evening, by reason of his inhumane cruelties. 1668 (Royal Soc.) 2 598 It being Sunday night, I was unwilling to scandalize any, by putting my servants upon a laborious, and not necessary work. 1740 S. Richardson II. 33 I will write my Time away, and take up my Story where I left off, on Sunday Afternoon. ?1775 i. 2 They were giddy young people who were going on a Sunday excursion to Windsor..where they would probably spend much more than the labours of the foregoing week could defray. 1786 R. Burns Holy Fair i, in 40 Upon a simmer Sunday morn. a1817 J. Austen (1818) IV. v. 94 She saw..that Sunday-travelling had been a common thing. View more context for this quotation 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian vi, in 2nd Ser. III. 150 The parish church,..from which at present was heard the Sunday chime of bells. 1841 A. R. C. Dallas iii. i. 431 The Sunday morning congregation consisting of about three hundred persons. 1883 R. Broughton III. iii. xi. 122 The Sunday trains are so awkward that I cannot get on till late in the afternoon. 1920 21 July 12/3 The Sunday concerts at the Tower appeal to all music lovers, many prominent artists being engaged. 1938 6 June 17/1 Tommy's girl is the prettiest in the county. He meets her after church on Sunday night. 1975 E. Dunlop xiv. 110 Many a boring Sunday morning she had whiled away studying their faces. 2004 M. Lucas & ‘D. Walliams’ 1st Ser. Episode 6. 178 Well it was a Sunday afternoon and we were all sat round as a family, watching the telly box. 1590 Edinb. Test. XXII. in f. 75v He lewis to David Wyllie his broder his best schoonde garment of claythtis. 1596 T. Lodge sig. Aiv Kind heart shall not show you so many teeth tipt with siluer in his Sunday hat. 1650 T. Vaughan 115 Poor gaffer with his Sunday-suite! Such a thredbare Thing cannot be found in London all the week. 1679 E. Coles (ed. 2) A Sunday's Garment, Vestis festa. 1699 T. Brown 174 The fellow lookt merry, and in good humour..in an old Sunday Coat that had outliv'd six Generations. 1738 Jan. 4/1 One that..doth not put off his Religion with his Sunday's Suit. 1756 G. S. Green 14 Upon a wooden Pin, The Sunday Hat and Wig were seen. 1786 R. Burns Holy Fair vi, in 43 I'll get my Sunday's sark on. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian v, in 2nd Ser. IV. 96 His best light-blue Sunday's coat, with broad metal-buttons. 1822 J. Galt xxxii. 240 The town-officers in their Sunday garbs. 1829 R. Sharp 9 Aug. (1997) 216 Conder had got his Sunday Coat rather stained with an Orange. 1859 ‘G. Eliot’ II. ii. xviii. 19 If ever a girl looked as if she had been made of roses, that girl was Hetty in her Sunday hat and frock. 1888 H. R. Haggard xxxiv Arrayed in his pepper-and-salt Sunday suit. 1910 J. C. Lincoln vi. 124 I'll bet my Sunday beaver that he never took it. 1932 23 Nov. 567/1 I'll eat my Sunday hat. 1950 P. McGinley 45 ‘My doll has a Sunday coat,’ said Isabel. 1986 J. Bauman (1991) vi. 147 In his dark Sunday suit he looked a bit too solemn for my taste, yet his deep voice and gentle manners compensated for it. 2007 (Nexis) 22 June d1 In the 1800s, most people only had one or two ‘Sunday’ garments. 1783 S. Gunning (Dublin ed.) iv. 48 A large party, some in carriages, and some on horseback, passed by the gate... It was the first Sunday scene of this kind I ever saw exhibited in Darnly Dale. 1846 I. vi. 77 The Champs Elysées, with its many Sunday sights and sounds, so painfully startling to all English travellers when they first set foot upon the Continent. 1852 E. W. Benson Diary 5 June in A. C. Benson (1899) I. iii. 110 I have all the while I am there a perfect Sunday-feel. 1889 M. P. W. Smith viii. 119 A Sunday sense of peace and quiet brooded over this remote nook. 1919 I. Zangwill xii. 480 Fortunately ‘the Ridge’ lay downwards for him, and the crowds and the everyday bustle finally disillusioned him of his Sunday feeling. 1950 J. B. Pratt ii. 55 The congregation should feel no sudden shock, no break with the past, and should be able..to weave around the new forms the old associations of ‘the Sunday feeling’. 2003 K. Cushman viii. 137 The coffee reminded me of Papa's Sunday smell—a little bit coffee, some hair tonic, and the clean fragrance of a starched shirt. 1787 J. Adams 123 The whole American nation might unanimously consent to a Sunday law, and a warden act, which should deprive them of the use of their limbs one day in seven. 1833 (U.S. ed.) 1 438/1 Sunday legislation.—All that the legislature has to do in this matter is to constitute Sunday an illegal day of business. 1843 7 Jan. 1/1 One of the higher officers of the department remarked aloud to Gov. Wickliffe.., that he supposed his Sunday rule was intended to apply to clerks only. 1888 31 Oct. 2/2 In 1885 Austria-Hungary in response to the bitter cry of Sabbathless toilers enacted a stringent Sunday law. 1962 27 Feb. 12/6 We were very strictly brought up and Sunday rules had only slightly been relaxed from the very strict principles laid down by my grandmother, who would not even allow the horses to be worked on Sunday. 1990 Oct. 85/1 The strictness of its Sunday ‘blue laws’, which prohibited driving through the town, playing sports, or hanging laundry on the Sabbath. 2006 41 34 The battles broke out thereafter over dueling, freemasonry, lotteries, drunkenness, Sunday laws,..blasphemy prosecutions, enforcement of Christian morals, and more. 1895 4 June 2/1 (heading) Sunday golfers fined... Members of the Toronto Golf club, charged with breaking the Lord's Day Observance act by playing golf on the grounds of their club on Sunday. 1928 J. Buchan xii. 319 His clothes..were workman-like, and looked as if they belonged to him—no more the uneasy knickerbockers of the Sunday golfer. 1930 2 4/1 Indeed, many of them had been seen often before, and none of them was the work of the attic genius or the Sunday artist. 1939 30 Sept. 4/7 A 5-inch rain was accompanied by a 65-mile-an-hour gale that caught scores of sports fishermen and Sunday sailors at sea. 1960 9 Mar. 6 Mr. Bratby may be a professional painter, but he is a Sunday novelist. 1978 6 Apr. 439/1 A small temple of individualism..by a Sunday architect. 1980 F. Warner x. 43 All the dilettante meretriciousness of a Sunday poet. 2007 (Nexis) 4 June b1 Would-be Sunday sailors faced gale warnings for Maryland's portion of the Chesapeake Bay. C2. the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > best > to be worn on a Sunday 1794 IV. 299 The day when people wash and clean themselves, and, as the saying is, put on their Sunday's best. 1797 R. Southey Botany Bay Eclogues in 87 To go to fair, I drest..in my Sunday's best. 1836 Jan. 99 Though dressed in the blue jacket and white duck trowsers of the sailor's Sunday best, at a glance, you would pronounce him to be no seaman. 1859 J. M. Jephson & L. Reeve xvi. 271 Little family parties dressed in their Sunday best. 1949 F. Sargeson xiv. 191 He was all dressed up in his Sunday best..but his hair was any old how. 2004 23 Jan. 25/3 Sitting nearby is a girl of the same age, out with her mother in scarlet and black Sunday best. 1788 D. Simpson III. Pref. p. xxxvii The Compiler would, therefore, recommend, that a Collection..be published..for the use of schools, in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, and read along with the Heathen writers, at least as a Sunday Book. 1811 L.-M. Hawkins II. xxvii. 86 I tell you I have a Sunday-book; that which at present occupies with me the chief place next the Scriptures, is Klopstock's Messiah. 1855 89 ‘Miss Jones will..give out the Sunday books’..a number of histories of good people, Bible stories, parables, allegories, and other books of the same sort. 1962 ‘Bryher’ i. 27 I ran in unsuspectingly to face a large and realistic painting of the Crucifixion. It was not a bit like the illustrations in my Sunday book, The Peep of Day, but a mass of blood, contortion and terror. 2004 G. Avery in P. Hunt ii. xxxiv. 459 There was also between thirteen-year-old Ellen and her spiritual mentor..a romantic if not erotic relationship, never hitherto found in a Sunday book. 1773 J. P. II. vi. 13 A tax upon race horses, and all horses for pleasure, Sunday-breakers, &c. are to be understood, and upon all fancy dogs and all other pet animals. 1885 6 July 5/4 He let the fashionable Sunday-breakers have a piece of his mind. 2004 C. G. Hullquist 374 The document then heaps curses on Sunday breakers. the world > action or operation > prosperity > [noun] > good fortune > fortunate person or thing > fortunate person 1800 C. Smith tr. A. von Kotzebue i. iii. 6 True you are a Sunday's child. 1865 R. Hunt 237 Sunday's child is full of grace. 1886 C. M. Yonge I. i. 8 He was punished for ‘telling fibs’, though the housemaid used to speak..of his being a ‘Sunday child’. 1935 E. Farjeon iv. iv. 178 The girl, a Sunday-child, arrived on February 13th, 1881. 1959 L. Korngold in B. G. Carroll (1997) xxiii. 365 Korngold in his youth was a Sunday child. He was happy in his art going from success to success, and happy in his human relationships. 2002 (Electronic ed.) 22 Jan. 18 The baby was awaiting his moment, a Sunday's child, it was to transpire. the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [noun] > wearing other clothing > one who the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > [noun] > good manners or polite behaviour > person or persons 1598 W. Shakespeare iii. i. 252 Leaue..such protest..To veluet gards, and Sunday Citizens . View more context for this quotation 1870 F. M. Whitehurst Diary 21 Dec. in (1875) II. 144 ‘La Folie’, a villa from which this village delighted in by Sunday citizens took its name. 1905 W. O'Brien vi. 103 O'Donovan Rossa was, to the horror of all Sunday citizens, run for the representation of the county. society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop hours of business 1850 31 Aug. 92/2 The Sunday closing of the country Post was considered no other than an unmeaning rant of a party. 1881 c. 61 s. 5 This Act may be cited as the Sunday Closing (Wales) Act, 1881. 1932 U. Sinclair ii. ix. 60 He would join the church, sign pledges, vote for Sunday closing. 1998 Feb. 72/1 The world's biggest lush (three bottles of vodka was standard issue on wetter days in the Sixties), hailing from the land of temperance and Sunday closing. 1642 H. More sig. Bv Such as their Phyllis would, when as she plains Their Sunday-cloths. 1773 R. Fergusson 117 Country John in bonnet blue, An' eke his Sunday's claise on. 1886 S. Baring-Gould xii ‘What!—not Sunday clothes?’ ‘Sunday is nothing to us.’ ‘What! no go-to-meeting clothes?’ 1994 U. Hegi v. 110 They wore their Sunday clothes: the girls in smocked or embroidered dresses. the world > action or operation > prosperity > [noun] > good fortune > fortunate person or thing > fortunate person a1350 (?c1155) (1959) 106 Et ad virginem, letare mecum, [Rogerus] ait anglico sermone, [my]n sunendaege dohter, quod latine dicitur, mea dominice diei filia, eo quod ceteris omnibus quas Christo genuerat aut nutrierat, Christinam plus amaret: quantum dominica dies reliquis septimane feriis honorabilitate pre[staret]. a1400 in H. T. Riley (1870) IV. ii. 99 ‘Lætare mecum,’ ait sermone vulgari,—‘Myn gode Sonendayes doȝhter,’ id est,—‘Mea bona Dominicæ diei filia.’ 1970 J. Fines 60/2 He [sc. Roger] called her his Sunday daughter, and was plainly attached to her. the world > food and drink > food > meal > [noun] > midday meal or lunch the world > food and drink > food > meal > [noun] > main meal or dinner 1602 N. Breton sig. D4 Worke all the weeke for a good Sundayes dinner. 1670 J. Eachard 110 There is great danger, not only of losing his Sunday Dinner, but [etc.]. 1758 J. Brown II. ii. 141 The additional Bribe of a Sunday's Dinner, for every such Person that attends Mass. 1789 13 Apr. 3/1 What a view this for a half-starved Frenchman, whose industrious cookery could make a whole week's sustenance for himself and his family out of one British tradesman's Sunday dinner. 1872 W. D. Howells ix. 253 Everybody, too, was going to have a hot Sunday dinner, if there was any truth in the odors that steamed out of every door and window. 2000 P. Agbabi 67 The church smelt musty and I noticed Mrs Leadbetter's glass eye. I remember lip synching the Lord's Prayer and Amen after father murmured grace for Sunday dinner. a1821 J. Keats Otho ii. i, in R. M. Milnes (1848) II. 139 Serv'd with harsh food, with scum for Sunday-drink. 1870 W. H. Dixon liv. 288 He keeps the men to their tasks; allows no Monday loss on account of Sunday drink. 1995 S. J. Stern vii. 157 Two men playing cards in a masculine social context of Sunday drink, conversation, and diversion. 1834 4 May 273/2 Why not do away with the Sunday drive in the Regent's park—why not shut up Hyde park..? 1856 5 Oct. 6/4 The county of Derby seems strangely irate with the abominations of the Sunday ‘drive’ in Hyde park. 1922 A. F. Betts xvi. 239 The Sunday drive should, when possible, be over some less frequented road rather than the noisy thoroughfares. 1983 F. T. Kihlstedt in D. L. Lewis & L. Goldstein 162 Aimless wanderings on a Sunday drive, unplanned sallies into the country after dinner,..were other automobile-inspired habits. 2017 May 27 I fill up my car and drive around for hours looking at multi-million dollar mansions... At the end of my Sunday drive I'm..recharged for the week ahead. society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > driver or operator of vehicle > [noun] > driver of motor vehicle > who drives only at weekends 1877 A. Sewell xxxvi. 182 If you Sunday drivers would all strike for a day of rest, the thing would be done. 1925 11 July 11/1 The Sunday painter is to the art-artist what the Sunday driver is to the owner of the Hispano or Rolls-Royce. 1975 L. Deighton xx. 161 The Sunday drivers creeping along the promenade. 2002 1 Apr. 51/1 With ‘shark fin’ headlights..Lexus' first ragtop wasn't designed for Sunday drivers. the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [noun] > affectation in looks or gestures > instance of > affectedly solemn face 1600 T. Dekker sig. H2 If you thinke but a crabbed thought of me, the spirit that caried you in mine armes through the ayre, will tell me all: therefore set your Sunday face vpont. 1680 J. Speed 5 He's sally'd out from sign of Pole and Bason, With Clergy-Cloak, clean Band, and Sunday-face on. 1756 M. Calderwood (1884) iii. 86 You would take them for so many Seceders, they put on such a Sunday face, and walk as if they would not look up. a1796 R. Burns (1968) I. 279 Wi' pinch I put a Sunday's face on, An' snoov'd awa' before the Session. 1906 E. Dyson xiii. 165 His Trowsis had er slitherin' chin, 'n' ther Sunday face iv er sick sheep. 1909 J. R. Ware 237/1 Sunday face (Irish), holiday countenance. 1987 Z. Wicomb (2000) 176 It is the stern Sunday face of the deacon that passes before me. 1934 D. Thomas 25 For, sunday faced, with dusters in my glove, Chaste and the chaser, man with the cockshut eye. 2001 M. Simpson 14 I'm Matt, not to be Sunday-faced but work-a-day. society > faith > artefacts > lay garments > [adjective] > worn on Sunday 1824 C. B. Southey in Aug. 218/1 A comely and a stately dame is the lady of Farmer Buckwheat, when, as now, she paces by his side, resplendent in her Sunday-going garb. 1840 270 A band-box containing Miss Mainwaring's Sunday-going bonnet. 1881 F. Caddy xv. 287 He kept himself and his landlady before, and all the landlady's poor kin, and bought her smart Sunday-going bonnet, and he finds it cheaper to buy his wife a pretty gingham gown. 1933 G. W. Bullett ix. 103 He must, I suppose, have possessed more sober and Sunday-going clothes. 1817 (ed. 3) 141 Sunday Houses. Our moral readers may start at the designation of this department; yet common sense will tell them, that as the Sunday houses are but few, their profits must be the greater. 1876 19 Oct. 3 Large family residences, which are known in this place as ‘Sunday houses’. 1923 J. Estill in J. F. Dobie (1979) 68 The custom of building Sunday houses originated with the farmer of Gillespie County. 1975 Sept. 37 In the old days, they were ‘little Sunday houses’ where the farmers stayed when they came into town for ‘Nagmaal’. 1998 23 Aug. i. 37/2 They now spend half their time making replicas of century-old German immigrant ‘Sunday houses’. the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > meat dishes > [noun] > roasted meat 1844 10 Aug. 82/1 Good managers put off the buying of their Sunday joint to this moment, in the hope that the butcher will sell his meat a halfpenny a pound cheaper. c1921 D. H. Lawrence Mr. Noon in (1934) 172 They were socialists and vegetarians... None of the horrors of Sunday joints. 2004 M. Oke 51 Monday was usually pretty standard: the leftover of the Sunday joint served up with bubble and squeak. society > communication > writing > written character > [noun] > Dominical letter, denoting year's Sundays ?1430 in J. O. Halliwell (1839) 91 Þen schal E be ȝour sonday letter to þe ȝerus ynde. 1555 L. Digges sig. *iiv Folowyng the Sondaies letter and Leap Year. 1698 (Royal Soc.) 20 187 B, the Sunday Letter for this Year. 1747 B. Martin I. 427 Sunday the 26th must have G, which for that reason was the Sunday Letter the remaining Part of the Year. 1855 VII. ii. 23 If the Sunday letter before the 29th February be c, the Sunday letter after it will be b. 2000 90 156 The table displays the golden number..and the Sunday letter for a period of 35 years. 1833 J. Jones ii. 68 Not there the Sunday lounger finds a chair, To quaff his goblets in hours of prayer. 1840 Aug. 99 This was perhaps no great loss to the majority of the Sunday loungers. 1999 (Nexis) 23 Oct. 21 DTPM has traditionally attracted a combination of Sunday loungers and hardcore hedonists. the world > food and drink > food > meal > [noun] > midday meal or lunch 1854 20 Jan. 6/4 Go into almost any village or National school on the Sunday, and you will see young ladies,..who have hurried from the breakfast table or the pleasant family reunion at the Sunday lunch to teach in the school. 1932 ‘E. M. Delafield’ iii. ii. 263 Mr. Pelham was sleeping, after Sunday lunch. 1973 ‘M. Underwood’ viii. 63 They sat down to roast lamb, roast potatoes, cauliflower with a cheese sauce and brussel sprouts... ‘Mrs Tidmarsh enjoys cooking a proper Sunday lunch.’ 2003 N. Slater 50 Most of the heat is being given off by my mother, who finds Sunday lunch a meal too many. society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > [noun] > attachment to home life > person 1769 H. Fox at Consulaire Avoir la goute consulaire, to be a Sunday man. 1785 F. Grose Sunday man, one who goes abroad on that day only, for fear of arrests. 1819 F. MacDonogh (1820) IV. 120 These hebdomadal loungers are what are called Sunday men. 1902 M. M. Bodkin 213 Costigan is a Sunday man... All the other days the bailiffs are after him. 1950 O. St. J. Gogarty 109 A Sunday man is not necessarily a devotee, but one who could only move freely on Sundays, for on that day the King's Writ did not run, and debtors were safe. society > communication > journalism > journal > newspaper > [noun] > Sunday 1788 H. More 28 The frequenters of taverns and gaming houses, the printers of Sunday newspapers..who openly insult the laws of the land. 1821 18 The daily or Sunday newspapers. 1919 Mar. 321/2 A couple of old Sunday newspapers, a paste brush, and some paste are all that you need. 1991 2 115 Anything to do with birth will find space in the Guardian, for example, and in some of the heavier Sunday newspapers. society > faith > worship > liturgical year > Sabbath > [noun] > observance of 1797 tr. Chateaubriand in 22 App. 545 The temples are shut all the week, and a few short prayers compose the whole Sunday observance. 1857 4 July 4/2 Having put down the Sabbatarians and secured rational liberty to the millions in respect to Sunday observance. 1897 2 171 Compare s. 3 of the Sunday Observance Act, 1677 (29 Chas. 2, c. 7). 2007 (Nexis) 28 Sept. 33 The union would have much support in its objections [to Sunday banking], not the least from the Sunday observance lobby. society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > [noun] > painter > amateur 1925 11 July 11/1 The Sunday painter is to the art-artist what the Sunday driver is to the owner of the Hispano or Rolls-Royce. 1939 34 64/2 The grass-striped street, the half-grown trees, and the dark picket fence are recorded as literally as this simple Sunday painter [sc. Rousseau] could manage. 1961 M. Leake tr. J. Bouret 170 After the publication of this text [sc. R. Grey's Henri Rousseau] in 1922, the label ‘Sunday-painters’ became attached to the naïf and primitive painters and to the popular realist masters, and still survives. 1980 B. Bainbridge xii. 88 He supposed they were Sunday painters, rather like Churchill and Roosevelt. 2004 P. Wollen v. 72 Like the Douanier Rousseau, another rare example of a ‘Sunday painter’ who was promoted into the canon, she [sc. Frida Kahlo] knew and was admired by famous fellow artists. society > communication > journalism > journal > newspaper > [noun] > Sunday 1785 G. Crabbe 5 The Oglio, a Sunday paper, advertised about October last. 1848 W. M. Thackeray liv. 482 He would by no means permit the introduction of Sunday papers into his household. 1907 F. H. Burnett xxvi. 264 The voluminous illustrated sheets of his Sunday paper. 2002 L. Purves (2003) xix. 257 The probable reaction of some dismal sourpuss in the Sunday papers. the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific thing > [noun] > with the hand > with the fist > knock-out 1915 D. Runyon in 23 May (Sporting section) 3/3 I hit 'im 'ith my Sunday punch right in the puss, and it didden do no good. 1944 W. W. Elton et al. iv. 71 The real ‘Sunday punch’ of naval aviation is the torpedo bomber. 1989 S. Lee (film script) (1990) 277 (stage direct.) In slow motion Rod winds up his Sunday punch. He rears back and brings his fist from way back. 2001 S. J. Cimbala vii. 155 It would be air power that would deliver the Sunday punch in the Great Deterrent. 1826 ‘M. Dods’ v. 65 A wholesome nutritious soup..instead of his Sunday roast and dilution of porter. 1922 63 726/2 It contains records which some of us occasionally dream into the existing English catalogues after our Sunday roast, but never find there. 1950 A. Fraser ii. 27 The chances of bull beef being served up as the Sunday roast are relatively slight. 2007 (Nexis) 28 July (Weekend Country ed.) (Features section) 4 Crisp crackling, succulent lamb, crunchy slow-roasted potatoes and piping hot yorkshire pudding—..just some of the ingredients that make a Sunday roast so irresistibly tantalising. 1661 (ed. 6) 189 The keeping of Sunday-sabbath as strictly as the Jews. 1781 R. Robinson 27 Pastors, who..hold the Sunday sabbath to be a positive divine institute. 1853 H. W. Warner iv. 88 It thus happens that the sanctity of the sunday sabbath is a first truth in our legal ethics. 1992 G. Hancock iii. xi. 253 The Jewish Sabbath was still being respected in the twentieth century by millions of Abyssinian Christians—not instead of the Sunday Sabbath adhered to by their co-religionists elsewhere but in addition to it. 1821 H. C. Knight (ed. 2) II. 151 The House is but few rods from Court, And Place, where sunday-saints resort. 1826 T. Wetherald 32 It is not to keep one day in seven; for every day is a sabbath. It will not constitute every day devils and sunday saints. 1859 Oct. 736 So the Sunday-saints raise their heads up and down out of the swamp of their church-creeds, and croak ‘Sanctify the Sabbath!’ 1901 F. E. Taylor 35 He's a Sunday saint an' a Monday divvle. (Said of a pseudo-religious man.) 2001 J. Schifter vii. 89 The saying ‘Sunday saint, weekday sinner’ demonstrates compartmentalization. the world > food and drink > food > additive > salt > [noun] > types of salt 1756 F. Home 238 A particular kind..only made on Sunday; and therefore called Sunday-salt, or great salt, from the largeness of its grains. 1808 H. Holland i. 55 The large grained flaky salt..made by slackening the fires betwixt Saturday and Monday, and allowing the crystallization to proceed more slowly on the intermediate day..has got the name of Sunday salt. 1885 R. Holland (1886) 345 Sunday salt, the salt which crystallizes between Saturday and Monday. a1861 A. H. Clough Dipsychus ii. vi, in (1865) 194 Good books, good friends..That lent rough life sweet Sunday-seeming rests. 1991 (Nexis) 6 Nov. 13 Reporters swarmed around Soweto, Alexandra, the industrial areas and the Sunday-seeming city centre yesterday. the world > food and drink > food > meal > [noun] > evening meal or supper a1580 G. Harvey Story Mercy Harvey in (1885) III. 75 A Sundaie supper at Mr. S. 1711 J. Swift Let. 9 Oct. in (1768) II. 50 I hate the thoughts of Saturday and Sunday suppers with lord treasurer. 1800 S. T. Coleridge (1956) I. 577 How I did think of your Sunday Suppers—their light uncumbrous Simplicity, the heartiness of manner, the literary Christianness of Conversation. 1856 26 Aug. 9/3 Lord Cockburn..dwells with especially tender unction upon the Sunday suppers of his friend Sir Henry Moncrieff. 1902 G. H. Ellwanger 267 It will thus be manifest that the Sunday-afternoon dinner and late Sunday supper become the greatest of all invitations to gastric disorders. 1997 C. Shields (1998) vi. 112 He still has Sunday supper sitting in his mother's padded breakfast nook, the unvarying roasted meat and potatoes and Brussels sprouts in their blue-and-white serving dish. society > communication > journalism > journal > parts and layout of journals > [noun] > supplement or pull-out section > types of 1888 W. R. Hearst in Apr. 404/2 The special articles that form the conspicuous features of the Sunday supplements are suggested by important events of the week. 1913 1 105/3 She did not care to ruin her life as a Sunday supplement feature to some rinky-dinky foreign count. 1958 J. Blish i. iii. 36 Stop sounding like a Sunday supplement. You underestimate your own intelligence. 2000 20 Mar. 15/1 Nowadays you can't move for posh folk in funny hats expounding at length on drizzled balsamic vinegar and blueberry coulis in Sunday supplements. 1832 14 Nov. 3/6 (heading) Sunday trading. Yesterday a large and respectable meeting was held at the London Coffee-house, Ludgate-hill, for the purpose of establishing a society for the purpose of promoting a better observance of the Sabbath-day in and about the metropolis. 1856 July 228 Lord Grosvenor..withdraws his Sunday-Trading Bill in the House of Commons. 1992 21 Sept. 7/8 The survey received a dusty response from the Keep Sunday Special Campaign, which said that Sunday trading was pushing up shopping bills. Derivatives 1825 J. M. Cobbett 220 Sunday here was a more Sunday-like day than I have seen for some time. 1885 ‘M. Twain’ xxxii. 277 I got there it was all still and Sunday-like, and hot and sunshiny. 1999 (Nexis) 11 Mar. a7 There was also a Sundaylike feeling in many urban areas as Ecuadorans took advantage of the free time to jog, play sports, or picnic. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2022). Sundayv. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: Sunday n. Etymology: < Sunday n. Compare slightly earlier Sundayism n. the world > time > period > a day or twenty-four hours > specific days > [verb (intransitive)] > spend Sunday 1854 R. Moffat 16 July (1945) I. 221 The Bamanguato who are with us turn the name into a verb; speaking of our keeping the Sabbath..they say we are ‘Sundaying’. 1884 13 Mar. H. R. Turner Sundayed in Fargo. 1920 7 Apr. 280/2 Miss Ruby —— Sundayed under the parental. 1987 9 Aug. (Colour Suppl.) 35/1 They're all up and about, Sundaying hard. 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