单词 | uphaliday |
释义 | Uphalidayn. Scottish. Obsolete exc. Shetland dialect. 1. The festival of the Epiphany (January 6, Twelfth-day), as the end of the Christmas holidays.In quot. 1884 the reckoning is by a combination of Old and New Style. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Epiphany (6 January) > [noun] Twelfth-dayc1000 Epiphanya1350 twelfth1472 Uphaliday1478 Uphalimass1532 tiffanya1634 apparition1652 1478 in Acts Lords of Council Civil Causes (1839) I. 20/1 Þe lordis continewis þe mater to þe morne efter vphalyday nixt tocum. 1501 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1900) II. 77 The vj day of Januar, Uphalyday, to the Kingis offerand, thre Franch crounes. 1535 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1871) II. 71 Evin sang in the haly dayes of Yule, New Yeir day, and Vphaly day. 1588 A. King in Catholic Tractates (S.T.S.) 175 Vphaliday when Christ vas reueled first to the gentiles. 1609 J. Skene tr. Burrow Lawes in Regiam Majestatem 135 Ane decreit given..vpon Mononday, after Vphaliday. 1884 Good Words 25 747 Uphelya, the twenty-fourth day after Yule, and that on which the Holy or holidays are supposed to be ‘up’. 2. uphali(day) even, the eve of the Epiphany; uphaly night, the night of January 6. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Twelfth Night (5 January) > [noun] Twelfth-nightc900 Twelfth-evec1000 uphali(day) even1506 Twelve evea1691 1506 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1901) III. 178 The fift day [of January], Uphaldy evin, to the men that brocht the sensouris. 1582 in W. Cramond Rec. Elgin (1903) I. 164 That scho in na times to cum sall ring bessingis, brassin nor irn morteris,..within this burgh upon Vphelly ewin. 1881 S. R. Macphail Relig. House Pluscardyn xix. 155 The thirteenth night o' Eel [= Yule] was called ‘uphellie nicht’. Derivatives Uphalimass n. = sense 1. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Epiphany (6 January) > [noun] Twelfth-dayc1000 Epiphanya1350 twelfth1472 Uphaliday1478 Uphalimass1532 tiffanya1634 apparition1652 1532 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1905) VI. 39 For the doune putting of thare bassyngis at New Ȝear Daye, Uphalymes and Pasche. 1556 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1871) II. 260 The festuall dayis of Yule, New-yeir-mes, and Vphellymes. Up-Helly-Aa n. /ˌʌphɛlɪˈɑː/ (a revival of) a traditional midwinter fire-festival held at Lerwick in the Shetland Islands (see quots.). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > festive occasion > specific festivities > [noun] > midwinter festivities Up-Helly-Aa1872 1872 Saturday Herald & Shetland Gaz. (Kirkwall) 10 Feb. 1/3 Monday night was what is here [i.e. in Lerwick] called ‘Up-haly a’, and the youths here indulged in their savage sports of tar-barrel burning. 1901 Shetland News 5 Jan. The principal Festival of the season to Lerwegians, namely ‘Up-helly A’,..is now celebrated with..Norse galleys, torch-light processions, and guizing galore. 1934 W. Moffatt Shetland 129 Up-Helly-Aa night was the twenty-fourth night of the Helli or Holy Days, and that period of feasting, drinking, singing and rejoicing concluded with a great flare-up on Up-Helly-Aa night. 1948 C. E. Mitchell Up-Helly-Aa 2 Up-Helly-Aa is the final day of the Jola Bød or Yule Period which commenced on the fifth day of January, old style, and ended twenty~four days later in a climax of revelry. 1955 Shetland Times 28 Jan. When a man is elected to the Up-Helly-A' Committee he can expect to become Guizer Jarl according to his seniority. 1972 Guardian 15 Jan. 14/5 The fire festival of Up-Helly-A in the Shetlands, which celebrates the passing of midwinter with..torchlight processions..and a lifesize longboat that goes up in flames. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1478 |
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