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单词 yeared and dayed
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yeared and dayedadj.

Forms: 1500s yered and deyd, 1500s yeered and daid, 1600s–1700s year'd and day'd, 1700s year'd and dayd.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: yeared adj., and conj.1, day n., -ed suffix2.
Etymology: < yeared adj. + and conj.1 + day n. + -ed suffix2, after a year and a day at year n. Phrases 5b(a).
Obsolete.
Allowed to remain or exist for a period of a year and a day, esp. as a statutory term; (in early use) spec. (of unclaimed property) retained for a year and a day, after which time the original owner's claim would lapse. See a year and a day at year n. Phrases 5b(a).
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1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Surueyeng xv. f. 28v And put them in sauegarde to the lordes vse, tyll they be yered and deyd.
1579 High Court of Admiralty Exemplifications 19 Nov. 105 There was driven..upon my libertie of Alverstoke..a certaine shipp..wheare she being yeered and daied according to the law of Oleron hath ever since remayned.
a1627 W. Sclater Serm. Experimentall (1638) 186 Whiles favours are new, we can..say, God be thanked; but, once year'd and day'd, they scarce ever come more into our thought.
a1644 F. Quarles Shepheards Oracles (1646) viii. 97 Ere I year'd and day'd This new imployment, O a strange mischance Ore threw my dealings.
?1715 Life Oliver Cromwel 112 That his successors [i.e. Richard Cromwell's] Government ne'er staid, A stray'd Sheeps Time, not to be year'd and dayd.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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