α. Middle English ȝeres mynde, Middle English ȝeris mynde, Middle English ȝerys mynde, Middle English yeris mynde, 1500s yeres mynde, 1500s–1600s yeares mind, 1600s years mind, 1700s– year's mind.
β. See year n. and mind n.1
year's mindn.
/ˈjɪəz ˈmʌɪnd/, /ˈjəːz ˈmʌɪnd/, U.S. /ˈjɪ(ə)rz ˈmaɪnd/ Chiefly Roman Catholic Church.
The commemoration of a deceased person by the celebration of a requiem mass, prayers, etc., on a day one year from the date of the death or funeral, or every year on the anniversary of this date. Cf. month's mind n. 1.
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the world > life > death > obsequies > commemorative ceremonies > [noun] > religious or mass > one year after death
annuala1400
year's minda1400
twelvemonth('s) mind1428
year-time1467
annuary?1548
the mind > mental capacity > memory > reminder, putting in mind > commemoration, remembrance > [noun] > solemn or religious remembrance > annual
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year's minda1400
anniversary1567
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β. 1489 Will of Robard Partrich (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/9) f. 7 vs. yerely to the keping of a yer minde for my soule.1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 1107 For keeping of a yeareminde and for making feastfull dayes In honor of that worthie wight.1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xv. 263 Hee commaunded an Anniuersarie or Yeermynd to bee kept in remembrance of hym.?1590 W. Perkins Treat. Damnation or Grace 314 This seruice is prescribed by the religion of the Church of Rome... After his death, to haue Funerall, and Obites saide for him, and to bee rong for at his Funerall Moneths minde, and Yeare minde. 1923 G. G. Coulton Five Cent. Relig. I. vii. 119 The Trental is a series of thirty Masses..On a more modest scale were the month-mind or year-mind Masses.a1400 Prymer (St. John's Cambr.) (1891) 74 Ȝif to the soule of thy seruaunt, whas ȝeresmynde we maken to day, a seete of kelynge blisse.
1408 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 15 That..hys Executours..haue..rewlyng of my obytis, that ys for to sayn, my ȝerys mynde, xx wynter Af[t]er my deses.
1520 R. Elyot Will in T. Elyot Gouernour (1880) I. App. A. 310 The prest executing the service at myn enteryng, moneth mynde, and yeres mynde.
1558 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Seuen First Bks. Eneidos Gen. Somme sig. a.iij For his fathers honoure he deuised games of actiuitie, and set-foorthe his Obite or yeres mynde, with greate solempnitie.
1606 P. Holland in tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars Annot.19/2 Augustus had in mirth given him the name of Founder, he was so reputed, and his yeares minde after his death solemnized accordingly.
1661 T. Blount Glossographia (ed. 2) sig. Cc3/1 Minnyng days, days which our Ancestors called their Moneths minde, their Years mind, and the like, being the days whereon their Souls (after their deaths) were had in special remembrance.
1768 H. Walpole Mysterious Mother ii. ii. 35 Thither we, At his year's mind, in sad and solemn guise, Proceed to chant out holy dirge.
1849 D. Rock Church our Fathers II. i. vii. 350 No others' names were read out but of those whose anniversary or year's mind fell upon that very Sunday or festival.
1902 Westm. Gaz. 4 Feb. 7/3 The ‘Year's Mind’ of her late Majesty Queen Victoria was celebrated at St. Matthew's, Westminster, this morning.
2010 A. Davison & A. Milbank For Parish viii. 185 When we mark the ‘year's mind’ of the dead, it is as recalling people who are alive in eternity, not a mere memory.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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