Middle English Dictionary Entry
dai n.
Entry Info
Forms | dai n. Also dei, daʒ. Pl. forms: daies; earlier: dawes, daus, daʒhes, dahes; gen. dawene, daʒene, dahene, daʒe; dat. dau, dawe, dawen, daʒhe, daʒen. |
Etymology | OE dæg; pl. dagas, daga (dagena), dagum. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A period of 24 hours, a natural day; ~ natural; a daies space, a whole day; daies bred, daily bread; prime of the ~; etc.
Associated quotations
- 1123 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1123 : Ealle..hit wið cwæðen fulle twa dagas..ðre dagas ær se ærcebiscop of Cantwarabyrig come.
- c1175(?OE) HRood (Bod 343)6/1 : Dauid hæfde æhtæ daʒene fær from ierusalem to þam tune þe moyses þa on wæs.
- c1175(?OE) HRood (Bod 343)6/29 : Binnon æhtæ daʒan.
- c1175(?OE) HRood (Bod 343)14/11 : He wæs ða six daʒes farende; ða on þam seofeðen dæʒe he bicom to þare ceastre.
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)28/15 : Crist sylf bodede tweʒen daʒes on an on Samarian buriʒ.
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)70/21 : He on ðam dæʒe of deaþe aras.
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)106/14-17 : On twelf monþe beoð þreo hundred daʒæ & fif & sixtiʒ daʒe..six ant þrittiʒ daʒene þæs fæstenes.
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)110/9 : Þeo murhðe..on anes dæʒes hwile wæs mare þenne æniʒ mennisc mon sæcgen maʒe.
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)110/29 : Æfter six daʒum.
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)ded.229 : Wiþþinnenn daʒʒess fowwerrtiʒ.
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)4342 : Crist..ras rihht o þehhtennde daʒʒ Affterr þe wukess ende.
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)4356 : Seffne daʒhess brinngenn aʒʒ Þe wuke till hiss ende.
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)7701 : Crist wass off Fowwerrtiʒ daʒhess elde.
- c1225 Nic.Creed (Jun 121)5 : He aros on þan þridde dæie.
- a1225(OE) Lamb.Hom.Pentec.(Lamb 487)87 : Fifti daʒa to þisse deie.
- a1225(OE) Lamb.Hom.Pentec.(Lamb 487)89 : Ðas fifti daʒes..beoð alle ihalʒode to ane herunge.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)83 : Hire weoren on ane daʒe hund þousunt deade.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)3615 : Feuwerti daʒene [Otho: daiʒes].
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)3895 : Þre dæʒes [Otho: daiʒes] hit rinde blod.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)4605 : Fif dawene [Otho: daiʒene].
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)8796 : Fif dæiʒes [Otho: dawes].
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)13927 : Þene feorðe dæi i þere wike.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)24721 : Þis ilæste þreo dæʒes [Otho: daʒes] Þa a þan ueorðe dæie [Otho: daiwe] þe king gon to spekene.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)25961 : Hu þe eotend ælche dæi [Otho: day] bi þan alde wiue lai.
- a1225 Lamb.Hom.Pater N.(Lamb 487)63 : Panem nostrum cotidianum da nobis hodie: Gif us to dei ure deies bred.
- c1225(?c1200) St.Kath.(1) (Einenkel)1551 : Þet ha nowðer ne ete..tweolf dahes fulle.
- c1225(?c1200) St.Kath.(1) (Einenkel)2469 : Twenti dahene ʒong.
- c1225(?c1200) St.Marg.(1) (Bod 34)18/20 : As þah hit were þe seoueðe time of þe dei.
- c1230(?a1200) *Ancr.(Corp-C 402)17b : Haldeð hit..I þe lenten þreo dahes.
- a1300 Bestiary (Arun 292)635 : Ðre daies slep he al on on.
- a1300 On dai bringd (Rwl C.641)p.16 : On dai bringd thet al ier ne mai.
- ?a1300 Sirith (Dgb 86)324 : Þe louerd..faste fourti daus.
- c1300(?c1225) Horn (Cmb Gg.4.27)29 : Hit was vpon a someres day.
- (c1300) Havelok (LdMisc 108)2344 : Fourti dawes.
- c1300 SLeg.(LdMisc 108)284/216 : Þare cam þane þridde day a fischare with is ginne.
- c1300 SLeg.(LdMisc 108)378/76 : Þene seueþe day huy comen alond.
- a1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)78 : His firme kinde dei was agon.
- a1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)3297 : Ðre dages weren he ðider gon.
- c1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)3025 : After viftene dawes.
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)776 : Deliuerly was he diʒt uch day at morwe.
- (c1380) Chaucer CT.SN.(Manly-Rickert)G.543 : To han respit thre dayes and namo.
- c1380 Firumb.(1) (Ashm 33)3325 : þoʒw þys asaut wolde y-laste þys forty dawes ryʒt.
- (c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.969 : Fully half a day.
- (c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.2576 : It nas nat of the day yet fully pryme.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Mil.(Manly-Rickert)A.3629 : Breed and chese..Suffisynge right ynogh as for a day.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.NP.(Manly-Rickert)B.4412 : Til it was passed vndren of the day.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)prol.163 : To make of thilke werre an ende, Which every day now groweth newe.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)7.957 : He which departeth dai fro nyht..Of sevene daies made a weke.
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.Mch.(Manly-Rickert)E.1893 : The fourthe day complet from noon to noon.
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.Sq.(Manly-Rickert)F.116 : In the space of o day naturel, This is to seyn in foure and twenty houres.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)88b/a : Effimera, one daies feuere.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)124a/b : A moneþ conteyneþ foure wekis, and a woke seuene naturel dayes.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)125b/b : An houre [is] þe foure & twenty part of a day naturel.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)3155 : He welk þat fell ner dais [vrr. days, dayes] thre.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)12926 : Iesus..fasted..Fourti night and fourti dais.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)20058 : Sant edmund..Dais o pardun þam gis tuenti.
- c1400(?a1300) KAlex.(LdMisc 622)5622 : In twenty dawen.
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)3.145 : In syx score dayes.
- c1400 *Chaucer Astr.(Brussels 4869)[1.10] 78b : Thanne hath Januar 31 dayes, Ffebruar 28..Julius cesar toke two dayes out of feuer & putte hem in his moneth of Jull.
- c1400 *Chaucer Astr.(Brussels 4869)[2.3] 85a : In whiche manere I schulde knowe the tyde of the day.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)1.896 : A rite þei holde..A dayes space.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)3.4831 : Ofte a day to hir he wolde pleyne Of his dissese.
- ?a1425(c1400) Mandev.(1) (Tit C.16)38/14 : He may wel faste fro drynk ij dayes.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)145b/b : Lete it be lefte þer bi a day naturale.
- c1425 Arderne Fistula (Sln 6)75/7 : Tuo daies naturale.
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)190a/a : Tempre ham by a natural daye in white wyne.
- c1436 Ipswich Domesday(2) (Add 25011)27 : Essoynes..from day to day..or in tyme of feyre from hour to hour, or to the lawe maryne from tyde to tyde.
- c1440 PLAlex.(Thrn)74/22 : Fra thythin þay went seuen daye iournee.
- a1450(c1410) Lovel.Grail (Corp-C 80)45.170 : This same day.
- a1450-1509 Rich.(Brunner)631 : Þere þey dwellyd fourty dawes, Ffor to lerne þe landes lawes.
- c1450(c1385) Chaucer Mars (Benson-Robinson)70 : She sped her as faste in her weye Almost in oo day as he dyde in tweye.
- c1450 Ponthus (Dgb 185)18/10 : The feste dured thre days.
- c1450 Dc.Prov.(Dc 52)p.44 : Oft bryngeth on day, Þat all þe ʒere not may.
- ?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)60/70 : He..lay iij days beryed.
- ?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)165/98 : Fourty days nere is Sythe my sonys byrth.
- 1485(a1470) Malory Wks.(Caxton:Vinaver)17/34 : Within fyftene dayes ther came Merlyn amonge hem.
- 1485(a1470) Malory Wks.(Caxton:Vinaver)18/3 : Thirtene dayes after kyng Uther wedded Igrayne.
- c1525 Rule & T.St.Francis(2) (Fst D.4)577 : A hole day naturalle.
2.
(a) The light part of a natural day, daytime; ~ artificial; al ~ (long), the whole day, all day (long); bi ~, on ~, in daytime; (b) daies, in daytime; fer daies, late in the day.
Associated quotations
a
- ?a1160 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1137 : Bathe be nihtes & be dæies.
- ?a1160 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1140 : Abuton non tid dæies.
- c1175(?OE) HRood (Bod 343)2/21 : All þet ferd..ferde forð on heoræ weʒ ænne dæʒ ant ane niht.
- c1175(?OE) HRood (Bod 343)8/29 : Ða bicom heom feringa on ane tid dæʒes..þet heoræ naðor nan word cwæðen ne mihte.
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)66/16 : Hwilc is ðe dæʒ, oððe hwæt is þeo niht?
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)98/6 : Þa fæste he feowertiʒ daʒa & nihte togædere.
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)11332 : Heold Crist hiss fasste..Bi daʒhess & bi nahhtess.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)6404 : Þeo fihten..al þene dæi longe.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)25098 : Mi drihten, þe scop dæiʒes [Otho: þis daies lihte] and nihtten.
- a1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)137/26 : All daiʒ, and..ʒiet benihte.
- a1275 Louerd asse þu ard (Trin-C B.14.39)347 : Þenne is þe dai euene wid þe nist.
- c1275(?c1250) Owl & N.(Clg A.9)241 : Bi daie þu art stareblind.
- a1300 Bestiary (Arun 292)309 : Ne stereð ge [the fox] nogt of ðe stede a god stund deies.
- a1300 Bestiary (Arun 292)576 : Bi hire make ge sit onigt, o dei ge goð & flegeð.
- ?a1300(c1250) Prov.Hend.(Dgb 86)st.33 : At even me shal preisen þe feire dai.
- ?c1335 Earth(1) (Hrl 913)4/78 : He is king of blis..Þat deliþ þe dai fram niʒt.
- (c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.1481 : He wolde hym hyde al day And in the nyght thanne wolde he take his way.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Mil.(Manly-Rickert)A.3438 : How may ye slepen al the longe day?
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.ML.(Manly-Rickert)B.2 : The ark of his artificial day hath ronne.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.ML.(Manly-Rickert)B.852 : Thow hauen of refut, brighte sterre of day!
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.ML.(Manly-Rickert)B.1117 : The day goth faste, I wol no lenger lette.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)5.1265 : Ther was al hire besinesse Be daie and ek be nyhtes tyde.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)5.4019 : In daies and nyhtes Nyne.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)5.6420* : For thilke werre is redi ai, It werreth nyht, it werreth dai.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)7.955 : He which departeth dai fro nyht.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)110a/b : Venus is lord þerof be day and mars be nyʒt.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)125b/b : Þe day artificial, in euenesse of day and nyʒt, conteyneþ twelue houres.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)228b/a : Rype fruyte falle..sonner by night þan by day.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)13541 : Quils þe dai..lestes light.
- c1400(?c1380) Pearl (Nero A.10)529 : At þe day of date [read: date of day] of euensonge, On oure byfore þe sonne go doun.
- c1405 Chaucer CT.ML.(Elsm)B.1134 : Tyme wol nat abyde; ffro day to nyght it changeth as the tyde.
- ?a1425(a1415) Wycl.Lantern (Hrl 2324)53/19 : Þei..waken in her synnes, chaungyng þe nyʒt in to þe dai, as hooris & þeues.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)1.3431 : Whan Appollo of his daies arke Had in the west almost ronne his marke.
- a1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)1.452 : By nyght or day..His herte..Was ay on hire.
- a1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)4.421 : Also seur as day comth after nyght.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)31a/a : Slepe he litel or noʒt namely on þe day.
- (1427) *Anc.Pet.(PRO)25.1232 : Vesselx and men..be lost..as will be day as be nyght, for defaute of a bekyn.
- c1430(c1395) Chaucer LGW Prol.(2) (Benson-Robinson)90 : I hadde romed al the someres day.
- (a1438) MKempe A (Add 61823)27/21 : Sche wept..ner al a day, boþe a-for-noon & aftyr-noon.
- a1450(1391) Chaucer Astr.(Benson-Robinson)2.7 head. : To knowe the arch of the day, that some folk callen the day artificiall, fro sonne arisyng tyl it go to reste.
- a1450(c1410) Lovel.Grail (Corp-C 80)33.414 : Tyl that the day was Al Ispente.
- c1450(1369) Chaucer BD (Benson-Robinson)580 : Y wreche..That hate my dayes and my nyghtes!
- c1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)10414 : Mony derf þer was ded er þe daie past.
- c1450(c1400) Sultan Bab.(Gar 140)619 : The saute endured al þat daye, From morowe tille it was nyght.
- c1450(a1425) MOTest.(SeldSup 52)56 : The merknes namyd he to be nyʒt, And the lyghtnes to be day.
- c1450 Royal SSecr.(Roy 18.A.7)27/35 : In þis tyme are the dayes longe and þe nyghtis shorte.
- c1450 Ponthus (Dgb 185)18/20 : Aboute the myddes of the day.
- c1450 Treat.Fish.(Yale 171)19 : Wat tyme of þe day is best to angleyng..a darke lowryng day.
- c1450 Dc.Prov.(Dc 52)p.45 : At euene prayse þe fayre day.
- a1500(?c1450) Merlin (Cmb Ff.3.11)374 : All day on ende, and all nyght.
- a1500 Henley Husb.(Sln 686)52 : Yeff your catell haue euery day provender, let it be highe day or þey haue it.
b
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)4/6 : He ne durste dæʒes, forþan ðe þa Iudeisce..utlaʒedon þe on him ilyfdon.
- c1275(?c1250) Owl & N.(Clg A.9)1590 : Þat gode wif..Haueþ daies kare and niʒtes wake.
- ?c1450 Knt.Tour-L.(Hrl 1764)45/7 : She happed to abide so longe on a Sonday that it was fer dayes.
3.
(a) Daylight; daies light, light of ~; dauen (to) ~, to become light; (b) daybreak, dawn; spring of ~; at ~, bi ~; befor ~, er ~, or ~; fro ~; oð ~, forto ~, til ~; (c) fig. uses.
Associated quotations
a
- ?a1160 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1135 : Þa þestrede þe dæi ouer al landes.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)18585 : Swa me helpe drihte, þa iscop þas daʒes lihte!
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)30764 : Þa hit wes dai a marʒe.
- a1250 Cristes milde moder (Nero A.14)59 : Mid ham is euer more dei wið-ute nihte.
- a1350 Iesu suete is (Hrl 2253)180 : Bring mi soule in to þe lyht, þer is day wiþ oute nyht.
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)1791 : Til it dawed to day & sunne to vp-rise.
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)1914 : Whan it drow to þe dai, þei ferde as bestes.
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)2218 : As it dawed liʒt day.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Dc 369(1))Ps.21.3 : I shal crie bi dai..and in the nyʒt.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.NP.(Manly-Rickert)B.4215 : On the morwe, as soone as it was day.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)1.1729 : This knyht on daies brode In clos him hield.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)1.1812 : He mot..chese Wher he wol have hire such on nyht Or elles upon daies lyht.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)5.6517 : Be lyhte of day Yit wole he stele.
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.WB.(Manly-Rickert)D.353 : Forth she wole, er any day be dawed.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)193a/a : No day is þere by ʒonde; þerefore þe see þer of is frore and yflow.
- a1450(?c1421) Lydg.ST (Arun 119)128 : To-morowe, anoon as it is day.
- a1425(a1382) WBible(1) (Corp-O 4)Gen.1.5 : God..clepide liʒt day and derknessis nyʒt.
- a1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)3.1701 : Bitterly the dayes light thei corse.
- c1430(c1380) Chaucer PF (Benson-Robinson)85 : The day gan faylen.
- a1450(c1410) Lovel.Grail (Corp-C 80)40.36 : Tyl..it was lyht Of day.
- a1450 Parton.(1) (UC C.188)4778 : The king of Fraunce oute of the town Is ryden..as syker as day.
- c1450 Ponthus (Dgb 185)112/4 : It waxed lyght day.
- (a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)27/18 : Or the lyght of the day com.
- a1500 Peterb.Lapid.(Peterb 33)p.93 : Iaspes..is grene aʒens þe daye.
- a1500 This louely lady (BodPoet e.1)p.107 : Thys endris nyghth I saw a syghth, A stare as bryght as day.
b
- a1121 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1106 : On þa hiht..wæron gesewen twegen monan on þære heofonan toforan þam dæge.
- a1121 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1110 : Fullneah oð dæg.
- a1131 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1129 : Litel ær dæi wæs micel eorð dine.
- c1225(?c1200) St.Juliana (Bod 34)7/50 : Ha..eode to chirche euche daheðes dei [Roy: deis dei].
- c1300 Body & S.(5) (LdMisc 108)p.25 : Als i lay in a winteris nyt In a droukening bifor þe day.
- a1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)1085 : Bid him, or day.
- c1330(?c1300) Guy(1) (Auch)4620 : At our wending of þat cite Þe liʒt day we miʒten se.
- c1330(?c1300) Amis (Auch)962 : Take leue to morwe at day.
- c1330(?c1300) Amis (Auch)1051 : Al þat niʒt he rode til day.
- (c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.1040 : Er it were day..She was arisen.
- (c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.1476 : The nyght was short and faste by the day.
- (c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.1491 : The bisy larke, messager of day.
- (c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.1629 : On the morwe, er it were dayes light.
- (c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.1676 : Ther daweth hym no day.
- (c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.2209-11 : Er day bigan to sprynge..Althogh it nere nat day by houres two.
- (c1387-95) Chaucer CT.Prol.(Manly-Rickert)A.822 : A morwe, whan that day bigan to sprynge.
- c1390 PPl.A(1) (Vrn)5.232 : Þat I ne schal do me ar day to þe d[e]ore churche.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Rv.(Manly-Rickert)A.4237 : The day is come, I may no lenger byde.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Sh.(Manly-Rickert)B.1429 : To Flaundres wol I go tomorwe at day.
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.Sq.(Manly-Rickert)F.641 : Fro day to nyght She dooth hir bisynesse.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)271b/a : Þay ordeigneþ wacches..and resteþ al night for to it be day.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)6106 : Moyses..for-bed þat þai Suld vtewit hus cum forwit [Göt: bi-for] dai.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)8674 : Be light o dai.
- a1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)3.1417 : Lucyfer, the dayes messager.
- a1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)3.1450 : O cruel day, accusour of the joie That nyght and love han stole!
- a1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)4.1690 : The day gan rise.
- a1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)2680 : Loke thou be goon ageyn er day.
- a1450(c1410) Lovel.Grail (Corp-C 80)30.223 : On the Morwe, Anon as the day gan Ryse.
- a1450(c1410) Lovel.Grail (Corp-C 80)34.119 : Whanne the day gan forto sprynge.
- a1450(c1410) Lovel.Grail (Corp-C 80)39.13 : He cam be the spring of day.
- c1475(?c1425) Avow.Arth.(Tay 9:French&Hale)134 : I avow..To ride þis forest or daye.
- c1475(?c1425) Avow.Arth.(Tay 9:French&Hale)794 : Atte þe morun, atte days liʒte, Þay blew hornys.
- (a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)27/14 : Than hit drew toward day.
- a1500 Eglam.(Cmb Ff.2.38)359 : Upon the morowe, when hyt was day, Hys leve then takyth hee.
c
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)66/18 : He is ure dæʒ, þe us mid ʒeileafæn onliht fram blindnesse.
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)13427 : Biforenn þatt te firrste mann..Fell þære i sinness þessterr nahht Fra daʒʒ off rihhtwisnesse.
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)16914 : & nohht ne darr ʒet stiʒhenn upp..I gastliʒ lifess brihhte daʒʒ.
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Rom.13.13 : Therfore caste we awey the workis of derknessis..As in day wandre we honestly.
- a1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)5.1405 : Myn hertes day, my lady free, So thursteth ay myn herte to byholde Youre beute.
- a1500(?c1425) Spec.Sacer.(Add 36791)8/20 : We are in the clere day; For the helþe whiche the olde fadres sawe but dirkely..we se it fully.
4.
A period of time; a term, season, or age: (a) a period; for a dai, for a short time; in short ~, in a short time, shortly; given ~, to grant time; monthes ~, a month's time; in ten yer ~, within ten years; the halwende daies, the days of salvation; (b) an age or epoch; werldes dai, the age or duration of this world; bi (in, on) olde (are, forme) dawen (dawes, daies), in ancient times, in olden days, long ago; on hethene dawen, in pagan times; bi elderne dawes, in the days of our forefathers.
Associated quotations
a
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)18/25 : On þam life is an dæʒ, þe næfre ne endæþ.
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)106/1 : Nu beoð þe halwende daʒes.
- (c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.2998 : The firste moeuere..Hath stabliced..Certeine dayes and duracioun To al that is engendred in this place, Ouer the whiche day they may nay pace.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)4.776 : He his trowthe leith to borwe To come..Ayein withinne a Monthe day.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)2.2014 : After an ebbe a flowe folweth ay: As men disserue, preise hem for a day.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)2.5959 : At þe last..At ten ʒere day, þei wynne schal þe toun.
- c1440-a1500 Eglam.(Schleich)662 : Now, gud lorde, I the praye, Of feftene wokes gyffe me daye, My bonys for to reste!
- a1450(c1410) Lovel.Grail (Corp-C 80)49.46 : He schal ben holpen with-Inne schort day.
- a1450 Gener.(1) (Mrg M 876)9535 : I shal hir see in short day.
- (1466-7) Will Sus.in Sus.RS 4250 : I wille that myne executours doo make proclamacion..witin my monethes day of dette.
- a1500(a1450) Gener.(2) (Trin-C O.5.2)1717 : He grauntith yow a moneth day of space..to geve a playn answere.
- a1500(a1450) Gener.(2) (Trin-C O.5.2)5882 : To graunt them truse for ij monethis day.
- a1500(c1465) SEChron.(Lamb 306:Everett)23 : An C Ml marke to be paid in x yere daye.
b
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)116/30 : On Antecristes daʒum.
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)8323 : O þeʒʒre daʒʒ wass att te flumm Crist, Godess Sune, fullhtnedd.
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)13178 : Alls iff itt off þiss werrldess daʒʒ Þe tende time wære.
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)13188 : Crist comm..Þatt time þatt tiss werrldess daʒʒ Wass cumenn neh till efenn.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)14386 : After þan laʒen þe stoden an hæðe[n] dæʒen.
- a1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)117/3 : Ða spac almihti godd, and sade: 'Ðies dai haueð aure ibien mid me and æure ma wurð.'
- a1275 Serm.St.Nich.(Trin-C B.14.39)64/33 : It was a king bi olde dawene þat wel leuede on godes lawe.
- (c1300) Havelok (LdMisc 108)27 : It was a king bi are dawes, That in his time were gode lawes.
- c1330(?a1300) Tristrem (Auch)2479 : In on erþe house þai layn..Etenes bi old dayn Had wrouʒt it.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)1.2273 : For thin enformacion..a tale I rede, Which fell whilom be daies olde.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)4.3318 : Ovide telleth in his sawes, How Jupiter be olde dawes Lay be a Mayde.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)18978 : Þar was a prophet treu and lele In form dais.
- a1400 Cursor (Trin-C R.3.8)18100 : Now com my sawes Þat I seide bi olden dawes.
- a1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)2838 : In olde dawes, as I fynde.
- c1450(?a1400) Parl.3 Ages (Add 31042)582 : The doghtyeste of dedis in thaire dayes tyme.
- c1475(c1399) Mum & S.(1) (Cmb Ll.4.14)1.65 : By elderne dawis.
5.
(a) The period or span of (someone's) life, career, or reign; lifetime, term of office, reign; lives dai, daies of lif [cp. lif-dai], lifetime; min olde daies, my old age; on (in, bi) his dai (daies, dawe(n, dawes), during his lifetime or reign; etc.; (b) don, bringen of dawe(n, to deprive (sb.) of life, put to death; -- frequ. in rime; (c) ben of dawe, to be dead.
Associated quotations
a
- a1121 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.675 : Ealle þa þing þe min broðer Peada and min broðer Wulfere..geafon..ic wile on min dæi hit æcon, for here sawle and for minre sawle.
- a1121 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1100 : On his dagan ælc riht afeoll..þa betstan lage to healdene þe on æniges cynges dæge to foran him stodan.
- (1155) Chart.Hen.II in Hall EME (Hrl Charter 3.B.49)12/6 : Ælc þare lande..þe hi eafdon en Edwardes kinges deʒe.
- ?a1160 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1140 : And makede ðat sahte ðat te king sculde ben lauerd and king wile he liuede, and æfter his dæi ware Henri king.
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)68/3 : Þes weoruldlice dæʒ þe us ʒewunlic is.
- c1225 Body & S.(2) (Wor F.174)2/41 : His deaʒes beoþ igon.
- a1225(?OE) Lamb.Hom.(Lamb 487)35 : Vfel is þet mon aldeð and his daʒes him at-gað.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)146 : To habben..after his daye al his drihliche lond.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)6068 : An his dæies wes swa mochel mæte þat hit wes vnimete.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)28761 : On Arðures daʒen.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)28812 : His daʒes ilaste seuen ʒere, and seoððen he deiʒede.
- ?a1300 Jacob & J.(Bod 652)13 : Þus ferden oure aldren bi Noees dawe.
- c1300 SLeg.Becket (LdMisc 108)2402 : Swuche men..Ne schullen nouʒt halue heore dawes libbe.
- c1330(?a1300) Tristrem (Auch)1111 : King he schuld be..After sir markes day.
- (c1375) Chaucer CT.Mk.(Manly-Rickert)B.3508 : Whil that Onedakes dayes laste.
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.Cl.(Manly-Rickert)E.1136 : His sone succedeth in his heritage..after his fader day.
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.Fkl.(Manly-Rickert)F.1447 : No lenger wolde she lyue after his day.
- a1400(c1303) Mannyng HS (Hrl 1701)3248 : Þe deþ here toke, here dayys were fyllyd.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)8416 : Dame..to þe i scau þat salamon son efter mi dau [other MSS: day] Sal king be of al þat i wan.
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)1.102 : Dauid in his dayes dubbed kniʒtes.
- c1425 Liber de Hyda in RS 45135 : To Alfwyge I grawnt these londis..aftyr the wuduys day.
- c1410(c1350) Gamelyn (Hrl 7334)12 : How his children scholde lyuen after his day.
- c1410(c1350) Gamelyn (Hrl 7334)65 : Thus dalte þe knight his lond by his day.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)5.177 : Duringe my lives day.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)5.3236 : My sone..Hath made an ende of my daies olde.
- a1450(?c1421) Lydg.ST (Arun 119)531 : To make hym kyng of that regioun Aftere his day.
- a1425 Methodius(1) (Hrl 1900)98/1 : Whanne þe dayes of him were fulfilled.
- c1430(c1386) Chaucer LGW (Benson-Robinson)1624 : That my myght..May nat disserve it in my lyves day.
- a1450(a1400) Medit.Pass.(2) (Add 11307)1723 : Þe dayes of my lyf, Þat passen a-wey with wo and stryf.
- a1450 Yk.Pl.(Add 35290)102/11 : On myne alde dase.
- a1450-1509 Rich.(Brunner)3259 : He was Crystene be my fadyr day.
- c1450(c1353) Winner & W.(Add 31042)303 : Thi sone and thi sektours..Maken dale aftir thi daye.
- c1475(a1400) Amadace (Tay 9)p.48 : Here a gifte schalle I ʒo gife: Halfe my kyndome quiles I life, Take alle aftur my daye.
- (c1465) Cart.Tropenell in BGAS 23200 : The tyme of Kyng Harry is day the thirde.
- (a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)216/25 : Therefore was he honoured dayes of his lyff.
- (a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)332/25 : She promysed..to love hym and none other dayes of hir lyff.
- 1485(a1470) Malory Wks.(Caxton:Vinaver)12/1 : Syre, shall your sone Arthur be kyng after your dayes?
- a1500 St.Aug.Contemptu Mundi (Hrl 1706)374 : Þey eten, þey drunken..and lede alle her dayes in lustys.
b
- c1225(?c1200) St.Juliana (Bod 34)25/255 : He walde don hire..ut of dahene.
- c1300 SLeg.Marg.(Hrl 2277)263 : He ladde hire wiþoute þe toun, þer me doþ of dawe Þeoues.
- c1300 SLeg.Judas (Hrl 2277)87 : Ʒut were his fader betere habbe ibroʒt him of dawe.
- a1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)3545 : Ðat wod folc ðor ur of dage Brogten.
- c1330(?a1300) Guy(2) (Auch)p.550 : Þis douke..Haþ him brouʒt o dawe.
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)3817 : Mani a bold burn was sone brouʒt of dawe.
- c1380 Firumb.(1) (Ashm 33)1697 : Many ys þe gode cristene kniʒt þat þar haþ be don of day [rime: aray].
- c1380 Firumb.(1) (Ashm 33)1953 : He þoʒte..þus barouns lete don of dawe [rime: y-drawe].
- c1390 Susan.(Vrn)242 : Grete god..ʒor gultus forʒiue, Þat doþ me derfliche be ded and don out of dawen [vr. o dawe].
- a1400 Cursor (Frf 14)4168 : Þen wille na mon make þaire saghe þat we haue done him of daghe [Göt: daue].
- a1400 Cursor (Frf 14)6780 : Þa þat til wikked dedis drawes god wil atte þai be done of dawes.
- c1400(?c1380) Pearl (Nero A.10)282 : I trawed my perle don out of dawez [rime: lawez].
- a1425(?c1375) NHom.(3) Leg.(Hrl 4196)106/89 : Bot þis bisschop be broght o daw, Sune he sall destroyn oure law.
- c1425(c1400) Ld.Troy (LdMisc 595)6621 : He wende then haue don him of dawe And his lymes al to-drawe.
- c1440(?a1400) Morte Arth.(1) (Thrn)3736 : Loke ʒe blenke for no bronde..Bot beris down of þe beste and bryng them o-dawe.
- a1450(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.1 (Lamb 131)1849 : When þe geauntz were o dawe, þe Troiens hadden na more awe.
- a1450(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.1 (Lamb 131)8616 : Þorow þe haue [many] ben lorn & slawen, Many soule & bodies brought of dawe.
- a1450 Pride Life (ChrC-Dub)334 : Truyt is don of dau.
- a1450 Castle Persev.(Folg V.a.354)1690 : Largyte, to ʒou I tryst, Coveytyse to don of dawe.
- a1450 Castle Persev.(Folg V.a.354)2962 : Syn þou art ded & browth of dawe, of þi deth, syr, I am ryth fawe.
- a1400 Siege Jerus.(1) (LdMisc 656)184 : Y schal buske me boun..To do þe deueles of dawe.
- a1400 Siege Jerus.(1) (LdMisc 656)1299 : Whan Crist of dawe was don.
- c1460(?c1400) Beryn (Nthld 55)2585 : Many a man, to-fore this day, þey have do out of daw.
- ?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)275/109 : Þou ast..subuertyd oure lawe..Where-fore it were ful nedful to bryng þe A dawe.
c
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)7.2883 : He made avou..That Rome scholde nevere abreide His heires, whan he were of dawe.
6.
Eccl. (a) An anniversary day commemorating a sacred event, a saint, etc.; ferial ~, festeful ~, holi dai, hali ~ [cp. hali-dai]; principal ~, an important festival day; holden ~, to observe a (holy) day; (b) al-halwen ~, All Saints' Day [see al-halwen]; ascensioun ~, q.v.; candel-masse ~, q.v.; childer-masse ~, q.v.; corpus cristi ~, q.v.; criste-masse ~, q.v.; estern ~, q.v.; (our) ladi ~, q.v.; lam-masse ~, q.v.; lordes ~, Sunday; neue-yeres ~, q.v.; (holi) rodes ~, ~ of the crois, the festival of the Exaltation of the Cross (Sept. 14); rogacioun ~, q.v.; twelfte ~, Epiphany; seint Marie ~, seint Nicolas ~, etc.
Associated quotations
a
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)70/5 : Swa þæt heo on þam dæʒe nan ðeowtlic weorc wyrcan ne mosten.
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)78/3 : Aræreð eowre heorte to ðam heofenlice Gode mid soðe ileafe for ðisse halʒæ dæʒe.
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)7705 : & tatt daʒʒ mang Ennglisshe menn Iss Kanndellmesse nemmnedd.
- a1225(OE) Lamb.Hom.Pentec.(Lamb 487)97 : Ðisses deiʒes hehnesse is to heriane.
- a1225(?OE) Lamb.Hom.(Lamb 487)11 : Nu beoð icumen..þa halie daʒes uppen us.
- a1225(?OE) Lamb.Hom.(Lamb 487)139 : Þis halie dei þat is sunnen dei icleoped.
- c1300 SLeg.Jas.(LdMisc 108)123 : Holie churche halt of ore leuedi feste þat ilke day.
- c1300 SLeg.Becket (LdMisc 108)1343 : Þane dai ne dorre we nouʒt breke.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Rv.(Manly-Rickert)A.3952 : A ful fair sighte was it vpon hem two On halidayes.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)127b/b : We reherse þe one & fifty psalmes in þe seruise of þe day.
- a1425 Wycl.Serm.(Bod 788)1.316 : Þis dai men singen þree massis.
- c1430(c1386) Chaucer LGW (Benson-Robinson)1871 : She [Lucrece] was holden there A seynt, and ever hir day yhalwed dere.
- (1432) Rec.St.Mary at Hill27 : Also v corporas for principall dayes.
- a1450(1391) Chaucer Astr.(Benson-Robinson)1.11.2 : Holy daies in the Kalender.
- (1470) Doc.in HMC Rep.5 App.528b : Every festefull day, both the evyne and the daye.
- a1500(c1380) Wycl.Papa (Ryl Eng 86)475 : Men dursten neuere hidir-to charge þe chirche to holde his day & trowe þat he were seynt in heuene.
- a1500(?a1390) Mirk Fest.(GoughETop 4)1/5 : Þys day, as ʒe knowen well, ys cleped Sonenday.
- (?a1500) Acc.St.Ewen in BGAS 15153 : To serue the auter yn feryal dayes of the Seyntes Kateryn and Margaret.
b
- 1123 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1123 : On Candel messe deig.
- a1126 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1125 : On Eastren dæi.
- a1126 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1126 : On sce Laurenties messe dæig.
- 1131 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1131 : Æfter S. Johannes messe dæi.
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)4230 : Tatt daʒʒ iss New Ʒeress daʒʒ Mang Enngleþeode nemmnedd.
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)11061 : I clepe itt her þe twellfte daʒʒ Affterr þatt ʒe itt nemmnenn.
- a1225(?OE) Lamb.Hom.DD (Lamb 487)41 : Sunedei is ihaten þes lauerdes dei.
- c1300 SLeg.Becket (LdMisc 108)301 : Þat dai of þe Trinite bischop i-sacret he was.
- c1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)7577 : A sein nicolas day he com.
- 1389 Nrf.Gild Ret.18 : On ye day of seynt George in ye worshepe of seint George.
- 1389 Nrf.Gild Ret.83 : Ye sonday nixt after vre lauedyes day in lenten.
- (a1400) Chaucer CT.Rt.(Manly-Rickert)I.1086 : Seint Valentynes day.
- ?a1400(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.2 (Petyt 511)p.150 : Þe day of þe croice, in þe heruest tide.
- a1425 Ben.Rule(1) (Lnsd 378)29/6 : Þe hali rodis dai in semtembir.
- a1425 SLeg.Pass.(Tan 17)1738d : In oure leuedi dai in leynte.
- a1425 Wycl.Serm.(Bod 788)2.236 : Cristemasse day.
- ?a1425(c1400) Mandev.(1) (Tit C.16)64/9 : Ascencioun day.
- (?1438) Let.Ferrers in WANHSM 18 (Lngl 3)12 : Aftere Seynt Swythen day.
- (c1438) MKempe B (Add 61823)246/83 : On Lammes Day was þe principal day of pardon.
- (1443) Proc.Privy C.5.295 : On Corpus day Christi last passed.
- (1449) Acc.St.Mary Thame in BBOAJ 875 : At seynt symunde ys day..at Seynt hew ys day.
- (1449) Acc.St.Mary Thame in BBOAJ 876 : Alhalowen' day..a synekolas ye day.
- ?a1450 Add.Mir.Virg.(Add 39996)358/10 : In þe heruest..On oure lady latter day.
- ?a1450 Add.Mir.Virg.(Add 39996)359/50 : Þe latter Saynt Marie day..Þai callen hit þe Natiuitee.
- ?c1450 St.Cuth.(Eg 3309)7007 : Ilk ʒere..In þe day of bedis deyng At his graue he vysit praying.
- (1454-5) Acc.St.Ewen in BGAS 15157 : On Good Fryday & Estur day.
- (1454-5) Acc.St.Ewen in BGAS 15158 : The Rogacion Dayes..on Ascencion day.
- (1461) Paston4.17 : On Childremasse daye.
- (1465) Acc.Howard in RC 57468 : At our Lady day next comynge.
- a1475 Godstow Reg.(Rwl B.408)410/25 : At seynt mary day in marche.
- a1475 Godstow Reg.(Rwl B.408)602/14 : Lammasse day.
- a1500(?a1400) SLChrist (Hrl 3909)1514 : Epiphany, that lewet men callen þe twelf day.
- a1500(?a1390) Mirk Fest.(GoughETop 4)257/17 : Seynt Michaeles day.
- a1500(?a1450) Treat.Garden.(Trin-C O.9.38)67 : Yn the day of Seynt Valentyne Thu schalt sowe this sedys yn tyme.
- a1500(?c1450) Merlin (Cmb Ff.3.11)556 : At the feste of seint Mary day in Septembre.
- a1500 *Mirk Fest.Revis.[OD col.] (Hrl 2247)lf.105b : Þei be called Rogacion dayes of prayer.
7.
Theol. The last day (or days) of the world, judgment day; ~ of dome [see domes dai]; ~ of the lord; ~ of wreth; ~ of ayen-yiving, day of retribution; the last (latemest) ~.
Associated quotations
- a1275 Þene latemeste dai (Trin-C B.14.39)1 : Þene latemeste dai, wenne we sulen farren vt of þisse worlde wid pine & wid care.
- a1275 Þene latemeste dai (Trin-C B.14.39)13 : Wenne þen latemeste day deit hauit ibrout.
- a1300 Bestiary (Arun 292)206 : On ðat dai ðat dom sal ben, ðat it ne us harde rewe.
- ?a1300 Fiftene toknen (Dgb 86)167 : Þe figttinge sal al day lest..From þan day after, þan Ne liuieþ no þing ne liues man.
- c1300 SLeg.Mich.(LdMisc 108)196 : To þe daye of dome.
- (1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)13/22 : He ssel come ate daye of dome to deme þe dyade and þe libbinde, þe guode and þe kueade.
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Roy 1.B.6)2 Pet.3.10 : The day of the Lord [L dies Domini] shal come as a theef..the erthe and alle werkes that ben in it shulen be brent.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars.(Manly-Rickert)I.118 : Thurgh remembrance of the day of dome and on the peynes of helle.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)7.3560 : His noise lich the day of dome Was ferfull in a mannes thoght.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)167b/a : Oure lorde..shal appere atte day of dome aboue þe same mount.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)27362 : Þat soruful dai o pain..þe dai o wreth..þar nan has might to oþer boru.
- c1400(?c1382) Wycl.Lincoln.(Bod 647)232 : Hou Crist schal cum at þe day of dome.
- (1415) Will in Bdf.HRS 224 : As ʒe wull answere afore þe high Juge at þe dredful day of dom.
- (1418) Will in Bk.Lond.E.219/28 : For to do..as sche thyngyth best, and as sche wole answer atte hey day of Jugement.
- a1425 Wycl.Serm.(Bod 788)2.18 : Þe daie of aʒenʒyvyng.
- a1425 Ben.Rule(1) (Lnsd 378)7/16 : Þat we may yelde þe resun for us-self at þe day of dome.
- c1425(c1400) Primer (Cmb Dd.11.82)p.64 : Haue merci on me whanne þou schalt come in þe laste dai.
- (a1438) MKempe A (Add 61823)52/12 : What creatur in erth vn-to þe Day of Dom aske þe any bone, & beleuyth þat God louyth þe, he xal haue hys bone.
- a1456(a1402) *Trev.Nicod.(Add 16165)107b : In þe last dawes of tymes..shal goddes leuest sone come apon þe erthe and arere Adames body.
- (a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)375/26 : All jantyllmen..ought of ryght to honoure sir Tristrams..and shall do unto the Day of Dome.
- 1607(?a1425) Chester Pl.(Hrl 2124)245/387 : That leeve I..that he shall ryse the last day.
8.
A (certain) calendar day; a (certain) day (of a month).
Associated quotations
- a1121 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1110 : Se mona..wæs þæs ylcan dæges feowertyne nihta eald.
- 1122 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1122 : On þæt dæi xi kal. Apr..on þæs dæi vi idus Sept'.
- a1131 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1130 : Ðis geares wæs se mynstre of Cantwarabyri halgod..þes dæies iiio No Mai.
- c1330(?a1300) KAlex.(Auch)373/62 : Jn þe next ʒare..Þe four and xx day in Marche.
- (?1413) Will in Bdf.HRS 220 : In wittenessyng of wich þing..I haue sette to my seell þe day and þe ʒer aboue written.
- (1415) Will in Bdf.HRS 222 : Þe ij day of Juylle, The ʒer of [etc.].
- a1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)2.56 : On Mayes day the thrydde.
- c1432 Bishop Notes in PMLA 49 (Cmb Dd.14.2)456 : Þe xij day of August next swant.
- c1450(c1385) Chaucer Mars (Benson-Robinson)139 : This twelfte daye of April.
- (1454-5) Acc.St.Ewen in BGAS 15156 : Fro the ix day of Averell yn the xxxij ʒer of King Henry the vj vnto the xxvij day of Marche yn the xxxiij ʒer of the seid King.
9.
(a) A time, day, or hour appointed or agreed upon (as for a meeting, appearance in court, a battle, or a payment); certain ~, a definite date or time; setten ~, to set a date or time; nimen ~, choose a date; holden ~, kepen ~, keep an appointment or the terms of an agreement; breken ~, failen of ~, fail to keep an appointment or to make a payment on time; taken daies, set a time or terms for payment; delay (payment); haven daies, have a delay in meeting an obligation; have a day in court; graunten daies, grant a delay; withouten ~, without a day in court, without recourse; (b) a meeting or session (as of a court, the officers of a town, or the members of a guild) held at a fixed time or upon call; general ~, gret ~, smal ~; haven dai of toun, to have the opportunity to appear at such a session, have a day in court; mannes ~, a human court.
Associated quotations
a
- a1121 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.656 : Þa kyning..seotte þa dæi hwonne man scolde þet mynstre gehalegon.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)13184 : Þe ilke isæte dæi, þat sculden to hustinge cumen þa cnihtes.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)15184 : Heo nomen ænne isetne dæi [Otho: þe dai was iset], þat scolden þas duʒeðen cumen heom to-somne mid sæhte & mid sibbe.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)26393 : Ʒif..þu wult þat kinelond bi-tellen to þire hond, nu to-morʒen is þe dæi.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)31377 : Þene dæi and þe stude heo setten, sæhtnesse to makien.
- c1300 SLeg.Becket (LdMisc 108)782 : Ich þe lende þo fif hondred pound..Sete me þar-of ane schorte day, for þov schalt heom ʒelde ech-on.
- c1300 SLeg.Becket (LdMisc 108)1342-3 : A certein dai us is i-set to come in-to engelonde, And þane dai ne dorre we nouʒt breke.
- c1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)11508 : A certein day hom was iset, of londe vor to fle.
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)1138,1149 : To be boun be a certayne day batayle to holde..til þe selue day þat was set soþly was come.
- (c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.2095 : The day approcheth of hir retournynge.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)3.189 : Þe dettoures myʒte nouʒt pay here money at here day, and were i-putte in prisoun.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Sh.(Manly-Rickert)B.1465 : I shal nat faille surely of my day.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Mel.(Manly-Rickert)B.3019 : Melibe..assigned hem a certeyn day to retourne vn to his court.
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.WB.(Manly-Rickert)D.1024 : Whan they be comen to the court, this knyght Seyde he hadde holde his day as he had hight.
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.Cl.(Manly-Rickert)E.179 : That he wolde graunten hem a certein day Of his spousaille.
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.Cl.(Manly-Rickert)E.774 : At day set he on his wey is gon.
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.Fkl.(Manly-Rickert)F.1575 : Aurelius..hym bisecheth..To graunte hym dayes of the remenant.
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.CY.(Manly-Rickert)G.1040 : To lene a man a noble..Whan he so trewe is of condicioun That in no wise he breke wol his day.
- c1410(c1350) Gamelyn (Hrl 7334)792 : He wolde wiþoute delay Come afore þe iustice to kepen his day.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)3.4031 : He caste a gloue doun..For lyfe or deth þat he wil holde his day Ageyn Hector.
- a1425(c1300) NHom.(1) Abbess (Cmb Gg.5.31)p.167 : That the byschop suld sette a day To proue thair abbas of hyr play.
- a1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)3.340 : Day is set, the chartres up to make.
- (1425) RParl.4.306a : He hath auctorite by ye Kyngis Writte to areste, yat yei shall kepe her day in ye Kynges Court.
- (1433) RParl.4.458a : Which said Erle also ordeyned..as well the said Abbot, as the said Commons, to kepe thair day afor you, most graceouse Sovereigne Lord.
- c1436 Ipswich Domesday(2) (Add 25011)31 : The tenaunt shal goon withouten day.
- (1437) RParl.4.509a : Yef ye Merchandise faille and come not at ye dayes, yan yai take newe dayes, muche lenger yan ye first daies were, to paie for ye same gode redy money.
- (a1438) MKempe A (Add 61823)121/27 : Þan he sett hir a day, comawndyng hir for to aperyn beforn hym in þe Chapelhows.
- (1448) Shillingford49 : The Maier..prayed my lorde..to have dey over yn to a mourn; and so..hit was graunted at x atte clokke.
- (1448) Shillingford58 : We have dey resonable to answere.
- a1450(c1410) Lovel.Grail (Corp-C 80)52.854 : To Londone they Gonnen to Ryde, To kepen here day.
- c1450(1369) Chaucer BD (Benson-Robinson)730 : Phyllis..Heng hirself..For he had broke his terme-day To come to hir.
- ?a1450 Add.Mir.Virg.(Add 39996)356/22 : Þat wive he wolde, And wiþ a mayde a day holde.
- ?a1450 Add.Mir.Virg.(Add 39996)364/60 : Þe Jewe..asked after his monay And saide he had broken his day.
- (a1464) Capgr.Chron.(Cmb Gg.4.12)315 : The emperoure boute him ageyn for a grete summe..he..mad the duke to take dayes and be bound.
- (1464) Paston4.88 : This day the plee by twene Ogan and yow was sore argued in the Kynggs Bench..and to morwe have they day to argue ageyn.
- (a1475) Fortescue Gov.E.(LdMisc 593)118 : His creauncers shul alway grucche ffor lake of thair paymente, and defame his highnes off..defaute of kepynge of days.
- (1475) Stonor1.158 : Yf the frenchemen wyll do us þe day, hyt shall not be longe or whe mete.
- a1500 Merch.& S.(Cmb Ff.2.38)13 : By a gode oblygacion bounde, in cas he faylyd hys day.
b
- c1300 SLeg.Becket (LdMisc 108)529 : Þis bischopes and þe baronie alle comen to þe daiʒe, to clarindone..Heo comen to þe parlement.
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))1 Cor.4.3 : To me it is for the leeste thing that I be demyd of ʒou, or of mannis day [L ab humano die].
- 1389 Nrf.Gild Ret.58 : Ye next souneday after ye general day.
- a1400 Usages Win.(Win-HRO W/A3/1)p.86 : Whanne he sheweþ wiþ-oute dystresse, weiþer he be of fraunchyse oþer ne be, and be of towne, so may habbe day of towne.
- c1430 Usages Win.(Win-HRO W/A3/2)p.85 : Aftur þre sumaunces he may, ʒyf he wole, haue a daye of toun.
- (a1438) MKempe A (Add 61823)59/9 : Diuers days wer kept be forme of lawe to preuyn wheþyr [etc.].
- (a1440) Let.Coventry in EHR 55644 : Ther was graunted, at a general day, to him & to his wyf xx s. by yer in alowance of the rent.
- (1464) Paston4.94 : I askyd hym if ther was any gret day at Bury, and he seid ther was but a small day; and as for any assises, ther wer non but old.
10.
Some special uses [largely contextual]: (a) a day spent in working, traveling, fighting, or amusement; driven the ~ awei, to spend the day; (b) a day or time of peculiar importance: a day of success or fulfillment; a day of misfortune; dying day; (c) abiden, sen the dai, to live to see the day; (d) (have) god dai!, good luck!, good-bye!; bidden god ~, say good-bye; (e) a calendar day regarded as inopportune or unlucky; ivel daies, dismal ~, males ~, perilous ~, Egipcianes ~ [q.v.]; caniculares ~, dog days; (f) an unlucky day foretold in a dream.
Associated quotations
a
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)1327 : Ne beo þa dai na swa long, ne bið na man weri heora songes to heræn.
- c1330 Otuel (Auch)690 : Fol niʒ þe water þe king lay, Of bataille for to a-bide his day.
- c1390 PPl.A(1) (Vrn)10.1 : Sire Dowel dwelleþ..not a day hennes.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)3.4010 : Lat þe day atwen vs two be Ioyned.
- (1427-8) Rec.St.Mary at Hill67 : Payd to Elymesford for a day wages & his mete x d.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)112 : Days rawarde or hyre: Diarium.
- (1454-5) Acc.St.Ewen in BGAS 15159 : For iij laberers v dayes, ij s. j d...for j mason ij dayes..xv d.
- (c1468) Deed Norris in LCRS 9314 : Euery tenant that payes 10 s. of rent or a bone gyffes a day with a plogh and a nother day with his worthynge Carte.
- (1474) in Rymer's Foedera (1709-10)11.819 : Taking Wages for Himselfe iv s. by the Day.
- a1500(a1400) Cleges (Adv 19.1.11)158 : Wyth myrth they droffe þe day away.
- 1607(?a1425) Chester Pl.(Hrl 2124)101/410 : Moe prophetis, lordinges, we might play, but yt wold tary much the daye.
b
- a1225(?OE) Lamb.Hom.(Lamb 487)35 : Ne beo he nefre swa riche, forð he scal þenne is dei cumeð.
- (c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.1223 : Allas the day that I was born!
- (c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.1732 : Sith the day is come that I shal dye.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.ML.(Manly-Rickert)B.261 : The woful day fatal is come.
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.Cl.(Manly-Rickert)E.126 : Vncerteyn we alle Been of that day whan deth shal on vs falle.
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.Mch.(Manly-Rickert)E.1998 : Ther lakketh noght oonly but day and place Wher that she myghte vnto his lust suffise.
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.Sq.(Manly-Rickert)F.621 : So ferde this tercelet, allas the day!
- a1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)3.333 : Be now of good cheere, For at thi day thow shalt me trewe fynde..it shal be right as thow wolt devyse.
- c1440(?a1400) Morte Arth.(1) (Thrn)2043 : Byde we no langere, ffore dredlesse, withowttyn dowtte, the daye schall be ourez!
- a1450 St.Editha (Fst B.3)680 : And atte his day y-sette þo dyede he.
- c1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)1100 : I be-seche þe..How me is destayned to dye & quen my day fallis?
- (a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)738/18 : 'Never erste herde I tell that ever he ded so muche in one day.' 'Sir, hit is his day,' seyde sir Dynadan.
- c1475 Guy(1) (Cai 107/176)1638 : Outelawes, That my felawes haue broughte to dethis dawes.
c
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)21555 : Ah no abide he næuere þære dæʒen [Otho: þane day].
- c1300 SLeg.Becket (LdMisc 108)1202 : Mi louerd, i-hered þou beo..þat ich þane dai miʒte i-seo!
- c1300 SLeg.Eust.(LdMisc 108)228 : He was glad þat heo miʒhte þane day a-bide.
- c1300 SLeg.(LdMisc 108)427/232 : Þo heo þane day isaiʒh.
- a1450 Yk.Pl.(Add 35290)115/90 : Wele is me I bade þis day to se þis foode!
d
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)13501 : Habbeoð alle godne dæi! to niht ich wulle faren awæi.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)25953 : Hafuen nu swiðe godne dæi!
- c1300 SLeg.(LdMisc 108)457/17 : Seint leonard..wende forth..and bad him habbe guod day.
- a1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)1430 : Eliezer is went his wei And haueð hem boden godun dai.
- c1330(?c1300) Guy(1) (Auch)5685 : He bitauʒt hem god & gode day..& went his way.
- (c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.1649 : Ther nas no 'good day', ne no saluynge, But streight..Euerich of hem heelp for to armen other.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)4.2814 : He seith often 'Have good day!'
- a1400(c1303) Mannyng HS (Hrl 1701)10477 : Haue gode day, for now y wende To þe ioye with-outyn ende.
- a1450(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.1 (Lamb 131)5259 : Ʒif þou ne wilt my biddyng here, Y parte fro þe, & haue god day!
e
- ?a1200(?OE) PDidax.(Hrl 6258b)5/1 : Forþan synd þa dæʒes ʒenemnede..dæʒes caniculares.
- a1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)27/22 : Ʒeu ðe nemeð ʒeme of daʒas, hwilch an dai bie betere ðan an oðer to anginnen sumþing.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)125b/b : Þe dayes Egipciaci beþ I set in þe calendder of holy chirche & ben I clepid dies mali, euel dayes.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)155b/a : Of egipcianez daiez..malez daiez [*Ch.(2): Egipcies or dysmalz dayes], þof it be not mych to be charged, Neþerlez for ymaginacioun and spekyng of folkez be þai kepte.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(1) (Med-L 136)328/1073 : xxxijti euell days þer ben in the yere with out those þat bene notid in the kalendare.
- (?a1500) MSS Montagu in HMC1 : Perilous daies in the yeere..in the whiche daies every man schuld shonys to make matrimonye, or bygynne eny longe viage or foundement of eny other grete worke.
f
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.NP.(Manly-Rickert)B.4423 : Thow were ful wel ywarned by thy dremes That thilke day was perilous to thee.
11.
A perpendicular section of a mullioned window.
Associated quotations
- (1348) in Salzman Building in Engl.437 : Habebit duo diuersoria que Dayes nuncupantur.
- (1400) in Salzman Building in Engl.94 : [5 windows..each being 6 feet in length and of 4] daies.
- (1401) in Salzman Building in Engl.94 : [A great window called Baywyndowe made with 4] dayes.
- (1405) in Salzman Building in Engl.480 : Due alie fenestre honeste lintellate de duobus dayes.
- (1426) Doc.in Morsbach Origurk.()14 : A wyndowe of foure dayes aboue the dore.
- (1448) in Willis & C.Cambridge 1366 : A grete gable wyndowe of ix dayes.
- (1448) in Willis & C.Cambridge 1369 : In the Est ende of the said chirch shal be a wyndowe of xj daies.
12a.
Phrases: (a) dai and night, day and night, all the time, constantly; -- orig. acc.; (b) daies and nightes, day and night, all the time; -- orig. gen. sg., later taken as pl.; (c) daies and yeres, many years; (d) yer and dai, a full year (esp. of tenure); (e) dai withouten ende, ever; with neg.: never.
Associated quotations
a
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)1248 : & ummbeþennkesst nihht & daʒʒ Hu þu mihht Drihhtin cwemenn.
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)5112 : & te birrþ ʒeornenn daʒʒ & nihht.
- a1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)83/19 : Sari and sorhfull am ic niht and dai.
- a1250 Cristes milde moder (Nero A.14)50 : Þet swinkeð dei & niht i ðine seruise.
- a1300 Bestiary (Arun 292)582 : Hire olde luue abit, In herte haueð him nigt & dai.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)5.658 : His peine day and nyht He dede, if he hire wynne myhte.
- a1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)2.1338 : Day and nyght This Troilus gan to desiren moore.
- a1450(?1400) In blossemed buske (Dgb 102)74 : Coward of kynde nyʒt and day.
- ?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)45/51 : From shame..daye and nyght God mote ʒow kepe!
- 1485(a1470) Malory Wks.(Caxton:Vinaver)15/28 : To watche the swerd day and nyght.
- 1485(a1470) Malory Wks.(Caxton:Vinaver)16/5 : These..were alweyes about Arthur day and nyghte till the feste of Pentecost.
b
- a1225(?OE) Lamb.Hom.(Lamb 487)7 : Heo sullen..bidden for heom deies and nihtes.
- a1200 Trin.Hom.(Trin-C B.14.52)87 : Swiche hertes fondeð þe fule gost deies and nihtes.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)3255 : Heo wolden..feden Leir..þe while þe he leouede, dæies & nihtes.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)20576 : Þer weoren wið innen seoue þusen monnen..dæies and nihtes.
- c1225(?c1200) St.Kath.(1) (Einenkel)1077 : Miracles þet beð maket ʒet þurh him..deies ant nihtes.
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)578 : Sche dwined a-waie boþe dayes & niʒtes.
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)2703 : Þei dwelled in duel niʒtes and daies.
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)11.30 : Bitterliche shaltow banne þanne bothe dayes and niʒtes Coueytise-of-eyghe.
- a1450(a1387) PPl.A(2) (RwlPoet 137)12.76 : With deþ I duelle..dayes and nyʒtes.
c
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)217 : Asscanius heold þis drihliche lond daiʒes & ʒeres.
- a1450(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.1 (Lamb 131)3114 : Hym self & his twelf felawes Serued þe king ʒeres & dawes.
d
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.WB.(Manly-Rickert)D.909 : Yet wol I yeue thee leue for to gon A twelf monthe and a day, to seche and lere An answere suffisant in this matere.
- a1400 Usages Win.(Win-HRO W/A3/1)p.94 : Of a ʒere and o daye y-vsed in þe Citee..vsage of ʒeer and of day.
- a1400 Usages Win.(Win-HRO W/A3/1)p.96 : A ʒer and a day y-fuld.
- (1407) Will in Bk.Lond.E.213/24 : Also hys wyll ys that John bakhous haue after hys lyffe her dwellyng A ʒer Aftyr & A day.
e
- c1330(?a1300) Guy(2) (Auch)p.390 : Bot he spouse me..Y no kepe neuer take lo[r]d, Day wiþouten ende.
12b.
Phrases: (a) al dai, all the time, at any time, constantly; (b) al the (a) dai, the (a) whole day, all day long; al the longe ~; (c) ech dai, every day; ech daies goune, everyday dress; (d) everi dai, every or any day; everi daies experience, an everyday experience; never a dai, not at any time, never; (e) mani (a) dai, many a day, for many days, for a long time; (f) ōn dai, a(n ~, sǒm ~, on an unspecified day, one day; on of these daies, one of these days; (g) this dai, today; that ~, thilke ~, on that day; this ich ~, this very day; thes other daies, that (this) other ~, the next day; the other day, recently; ?one day; this ender ~, see ender; (h) this dai, these daies, the present, these days; into (unto) this ~, to this day, till now; tofore this ~, before now; in our daies, in our times, nowadays; (i) this dai fifti wikes, fifty weeks (a year) from now; this dai seve-night, a week ago.
Associated quotations
a
- (c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.1168 : Therfore positif lawe..Is broke al day for loue.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.NP.(Manly-Rickert)B.4282 : Men dreme alday of owles and of apes.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)2.1899 : Al dai in experience A man mai se thilke evidence.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)190b/b : For medlyng and companye þat þey haue alle day with þe Germans.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)331/30 : Þis is al dai preued bi experiment, as þou miʒt se ofte tyme.
- (a1402) Trev.DCur.(Hrl 1900)53/13 : A man is more schamfast to schewe his synnes to hym þat he seeþ al day þan to hym þat he seeþ but ones a ʒere.
b
- ?a1160 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1137 : Wel þu myhtes faren all a dæis fare, sculdest thu neure finden man in tune sittende ne land tiled.
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)1026 : & layked þere at lyking al þe long daye.
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)2516 : & rested þere redeli al þat longe day.
- (c1387-95) Chaucer CT.Prol.(Manly-Rickert)A.91 : Syngynge he was or floytynge al the day.
- (c1387-95) Chaucer CT.Prol.(Manly-Rickert)A.354 : His table..Stood redy couered al the longe day.
- (c1410) York MGame (Vsp B.12)34 : He wil flee al a daye.
- ?a1500 Henslow Recipes (Henslow)2/10 : Let hit stonde al aday.
c
- a1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)17/12 : Ælche dai me cumeð sonden on mine þohtes.
- (1422) EEWills50/16 : I be-queeth to..my seruaunt..myn eche daies gowne of marterount.
d
- c1330(?a1300) Tristrem (Auch)2001 : Þou louedest him neuer aday.
- c1330(?a1300) Tristrem (Auch)2126 : Y þe wraied neuer day.
- (c1443) Pecock Rule (Mrg M 519)140 : Þis same is seen openly in oure knowyng bi euery daies experience.
e
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)1647 : Elles had i deide for duel many dai seþþe.
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)2630 : & ded was & doluen mani a day bi-fore.
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.Mch.(Manly-Rickert)E.1304 : Thy verray freendes..Wol kepe thee bet than she, that wayteth ay After thy good, and hath doon many a day.
- a1500(a1400) Cleges (Adv 19.1.11)463 : Many a daye He wold warn no man þe waye.
- a1500(c1465) SEChron.(Lamb 306:Everett)1 : Thei were in the see longe and mony a daye.
f
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)19458 : Godess Gast off heffne comm..An daʒʒ att unnderrn time.
- c1225 St.Marg.(1) (Roy 17.A.27)7/9 : As he wende adei his wei, he seh..Marherete.
- c1330 Otuel (Auch)979 : Þou holpe to saue mi lif a day, Ich wole sauen þin, ʒef I may.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.ML.(Manly-Rickert)B.1083 : To vouche sauf, som day with hym to dyne.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Mk.(Manly-Rickert)B.3107 : I woot wel she wol do me sle som day.
- (a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)117/3 : Brynge hym to the courte one of thes dayes.
g
- a1131 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1131 : Ðes oðer dæies æfter S' Iohannes messe dæi cusen þa muneces abbot.
- ?a1160 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1135 : Ðat oþer dei þa he lai an slep in scip, þa þestrede þe dæi ouer al landes..þat ilc gær warth þe king ded ðat oþer dæi efter S' Andreas massedæi.
- ?a1160 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1154 : Þat ilce dæi þat Martin abb. of Burch sculde þider faren.
- c1225(?c1200) St.Kath.(1) (Einenkel)598 : Ear þene þes dei.
- c1330(?a1300) Arth.& M.(Auch)5103 : Her bisiden ben childer hende Þat han þis ich dawe Mani cursed painem slawe.
- c1330(?c1300) Guy(1) (Auch)6218 : Ʒif þe douk wite þat þou it be, Þis ich day he wil sle þe.
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)1966 : Whi his douʒter þat day dwelled so longe.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Sh.(Manly-Rickert)B.1543 : For ye so kyndely this oother day Lente me gold.
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.Mch.(Manly-Rickert)E.1885 : The moone, that at noon was thilke day..was into Cancre gliden.
- (a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)23/24 : Sir Kay dud that day many mervaylous dedis of armys.
- ?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)159/223 : This daye the kynggys xal be kold.
- 1485(a1470) Malory Wks.(Caxton:Vinaver)13/32 : My broder sir Kay shal not be without a swerd this day.
h
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)190b/a : Þe men ben stronge and noble, and nouʒt ouercome to fore þis daye.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)191a/b : Joseph was yburied, and þere his toumbe is yshewed into þis day.
- a1400(c1303) Mannyng HS (Hrl 1701)4146 : Enuye haþ reyned ay Yn alle mankynde vnto þys day.
- ?c1425(c1380) Chaucer Form.A.(Benson-Robinson)61 : In oure dayes nis but covetyse.
- a1450(c1405) Purvey Determ.(Trin-C B.14.50)172/73 : He loueþ not lesse vs Cristen men in þes daies þan he dide þe pupel in þe olde testament.
- a1450(c1410) Lovel.Grail (Corp-C 80)13.332 : The Colour is sene Into this day.
- c1475(c1445) Pecock Donet (Bod 916)4/13 : Neuere into þis daie was enye man holde iugid or condempnid for an errer.
- c1475(c1445) Pecock Donet (Bod 916)6/10 : Ellis manye ful profitable bokis schulde we into þese daies haue lackid.
i
- (c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.1850 : This day fifty wykes..Euerich of yow shal brynge an hundred knyghtes.
- (1443) Paston2.56 : Your fader and myn was dysday sevenyth at Bekelys.
- a1500(?c1400) EToulouse (Cmb Ff.2.38)953 : 'When ys the day sett?'..'Euyn thys day thre wyke.'
12c.
Prep. phrases: (a) at al dai, at all hours; at al dawes, all the time, always; at on dai, on one day; (b) bi dai and (bi) night, in daytime and at night; day and night, all the time; (c) (bi) dai ne niht, neither in daytime nor at night; not at any time, never; (d) bi (on, a) þan (þo) daʒen (dawen, daies), in (on) þilke daies, in those (bygone) days, at that time; bi daies, once upon a time; (e) dai bi dai, day after day, every day, steadily; (f) for alle daies, for all times, forever; for mani dai er, long before; (g) from dai to dai, dai fro dai, from one day to another; day after day, continuously, steadily; (h) from that dai (forward), from that day (onward); (i) in the daie, on the day (of); in one ~, one day; in ~, at any time, ever; (j) on a dai, upon a ~, on an unspecified day; one day, one of these days; (k) on (in) the other dai, on the second day; (l) on daies, a dai, in daytime; (m) on daies nou, nou a dai(es, nou bi dawe, at present, nowadays; (n) sin thilke day, since the day or time (that); (o) to dai, on this day, today, now [see to-dai]; (p) upon a dai, in one day.
Associated quotations
a
- a1450(c1410) Lovel.Grail (Corp-C 80)52.410 : At Alle daye there sen they Mowhte the Brigge with speris Envirowned Abowte.
- c1450(?c1408) Lydg.RS (Frf 16)851 : Be ryghtful eke at al dawes.
- (1453) LRed Bk.Bristol2.201 : The saide preste..ones in the wike shall say a masse of oure ladi at oon day and a masse of Requiem at another day.
b
- ?a1160 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1137 : Þa namen hi þa men..ðat ani god hefde bathe be nihtes and be dæies.
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)1449 : Ʒiff þu cwemesst tin Drihhtin Bi daʒʒess & bi nihhtess.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)2082 : He hehte þat..ælc halden oðren riht ba bi daie & bi nith.
- a1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)85/25 : Hit te wile likin be nihte oðer be daiʒe.
- a1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)151/23 : We habbeð niede him to bidden be daiʒ and be nihte.
- a1250 Cristes milde moder (Nero A.14)8 : Seynte marie..Ich ouh..singge þe lofsong bi daie & bi nihte.
- a1300 Bestiary (Arun 292)150 : Bid tu ðe ai, boðe bi nigt & bi dai, ðat tu milce mote hauen.
- c1330(?c1300) Spec.Guy (Auch)320 : Loue wel god bi day and niht.
- c1400(?a1300) KAlex.(LdMisc 622)4804 : Gyoures he name..Þat hem shulden lede riʒth Þorouʒ desert, by day and niʒth.
- (a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)25/9 : With twenty thousand he passed by nyght and day.
- ?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)360/148 : Wachith me be dayes and nythis.
- 1534(?a1500) Cov.Pl.ST (Croo:Craig)815 : Now you have sworne..my wyll thatt ye wyrke bothe be dey and nyght.
c
- a1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)31/31 : Swic ðu naure niht ne dai ær ðu hes habbe.
- a1225 Lamb.Hom.Pater N.(Lamb 487)46 : Ne beo þu nawiht monslaht ne in hordom dei ne naht.
- a1300 Bestiary (Arun 292)588 : Luue we him wið migte & wende we neure fro him ward be dai ne be nigte.
- c1300(?c1225) Horn (Cmb Gg.4.27)259 : Of folk heo hadde drede: Bi daie ne bi niʒte Wiþ him speke ne miʒte.
- (c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.1823 : Ne make werre vpon me nyght nor day.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)3448 : Sco ne moght rest dai ne naght.
- c1400(?a1387) PPl.C (Hnt HM 137)18.29 : Ac dorst no best byten hem by daye ne by nyghte.
- a1425(a1400) Titus & V.(Pep 2014)408 : In his bedde þer he lay; He myʒt noʒt out, nyʒt ne day.
d
- a1200 Trin.Hom.(Trin-C B.14.52)47 : Swich þeu wes bi þan dagen.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)1284 : Heo funden vtlawen, þa kenneste þa weoren o þon dawen [Otho: in þilke daies].
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)2402 : Æfter þon lawen þe stoden a þon ilke dawen [Otho: bi þe ilke daiʒe].
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)9619 : Æfter þan aðelene laʒen þat stoden oþen ilke dæʒen [Otho: bi þilke daue].
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)20198 : Childric wes i þan daʒen [Otho: a þane daʒe] cæiser of riche laʒen.
- a1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)55/4 : Hie waren ihealden swiðe unwurð be ðan daiʒe.
- a1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)67/26 : An riche iungman cam to Crist be ðo daiʒen ðe he hier lichamliche was wuniende.
- a1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)2747 : Wimmen ðo nomen of here erf kep, Pride ne cuðe bi ðat dai.
- c1330(?c1300) Spec.Guy (Auch)37 : A god man þer was in þilke dawe Þat liuede al in godes lawe.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)1.2125 : It fell so that in thilke dawe Ther was ordeined be the lawe [etc.].
- a1450(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.1 (Lamb 131)461 : Custume was bi þo dawes, In tyme of þe elde lawes [etc.].
- a1500 Orfeo (Hrl 3810)2/15 : Aventures þat fallen by dayes.
e
- (c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.1033 : This passeth yeer by yeer and day by day.
- c1390 PPl.A(1) (Vrn)8.177 : What þou dudest day bi day þe Doom þe wol rehersen.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.NP.(Manly-Rickert)B.4242 : 'Mordre wol out,' that se we day by day.
- c1400(?a1387) PPl.C (Hnt HM 137)11.23 : Seuene sythe..syngeþ, day by day, The alþer-ryghtfulleste renk.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)3.5523 : Now shal oure fadris cruelly..be slayn day be day!
- (a1438) MKempe A (Add 61823)2/22 : Ower mercyful Lord vysytyd þis creatur wyth plentyuows teerys of contricyon day be day.
- a1450(1408) *Vegetius(1) (Dc 291)24b : Newe werryours oweþ to ben tauʒt day by day in þe felde of auentures.
- a1500(a1450) Gener.(2) (Trin-C O.5.2)1142 : Madame, I gre me wele In your presence to travell day by day.
f
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)3076 : Itt wass forr maniʒ daʒʒ Ær cwiddedd þurrh prophetess.
- c1436 Ipswich Domesday(2) (Add 25011)55 : Ʒif eny swich tenaunt..of this be atteynt, lese he the place wasted for alle dayes.
g
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)9939 : Þatt aniʒ shollde dwellenn Ne draʒhenn nohht fra daʒʒ to daʒʒ To betenn heore sinness.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)30435 : From dæiʒe to daʒe þene king heo gunnen driuen.
- c1225 St.Juliana (Roy 17.A.27)8/60 : Hu his dohter droh him from deie to deie.
- c1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)10386 : Fram daye to daye hii dude þe mansinge.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Mil.(Manly-Rickert)A.3371 : Fro day to day this ioly Absolon So woweth hire that hym is wo bigon.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Sh.(Manly-Rickert)B.1605 : For I wol paye yow wel and redily Fro day to day.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)5.1586 : The fend fro dai to dai The worschipe of ydolatrie Drowh forth.
- c1430 Chaucer TC (Cmb Gg.4.27)1.442 : Day from day his owene þought ffor loue to hyre gan quekyn & encrese.
- (1432) Paston2.36 : From day to day..more and more to grucche.
- c1450 Ponthus (Dgb 185)76/15 : We oughte me [read: mo] to loue our saules then our bodyes, that..from day to day drawen to an ende.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)32b : Fro Day to day: die in diem, Indies, dietim.
h
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)18484 : We sal be rauist forth awai, Sal na ma[n] se us fra þat dai.
- a1500(c1465) SEChron.(Lamb 306:Everett)34 : This yere was ordeyned that from that day forwarde shold never after Shoreff of London be in Office lenger then one yere.
i
- ?a1300 Jacob & J.(Bod 652)193 : Hit fel in one daye, þe king was out iwent.
- c1400(?c1390) Gawain (Nero A.10)80 : Enbrawded..wyth þe best gemmes Þat myʒt be preued of prys wyth penyes to bye in daye.
- (1451) Acc.Yatton in Som.RS 492 : For expenses in the day of the weyyng of the belle.
j
- a1121 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.963 : And brohte heom to Burch and offrede heom eall S. Peter on an dæi.
- c1330(?c1300) Spec.Guy (Auch)49 : On a day..Sire Gy þe eorl sente his sonde To þe holi man.
- c1330 Orfeo (Auch)303 : On a day he seiʒe..Sexti leuedis on hors ride.
- (c1387-95) Chaucer CT.Prol.(Manly-Rickert)A.19 : Bifel that in that sesoun on a day, In Southwerk at the Tabard as I lay [etc.].
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.ML.(Manly-Rickert)B.375 : She rideth to the sowdan on a day And seyde [etc.].
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)1.812 : This Duck..Upon a day hem tuo to mete Hath bede, and thei come at his heste.
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.Fri.(Manly-Rickert)D.1375 : And so bifel that ones on a day This somnour..Rood for to somne an olde wydwe.
- a1425(a1382) WBible(1) (Corp-O 4)1 Kings 27.1 : Dauid seith in his herte, 'Sumtyme on a day [L una die] I shal falle in the hoond of Saul.'
- (a1438) MKempe A (Add 61823)47/15 : On a day as þis creatur was heryng hir Messe [etc.].
- c1475(?c1425) Avow.Arth.(Tay 9:French&Hale)30 : Þe King atte Carlele he lay; Þe hunter cummys on a day [etc.].
k
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)6118 : A þene [Otho: In þan] oðerne dæi he com to Denemarke.
l
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)244 : A kowherde..is my kynde fader..& here i kepe is kyn..on dayes.
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)773 : No seg..miʒt þe soþe wite..where he was on dayes.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)7.438 : Though he behote wel a day, On nyht..He may ful evele his dette paie.
m
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)2.444 : Now a day In loves Court a man mai hiere Fulofte pleigne of this matiere.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)4.1731 : On daies nou The blinde god..Cupido..set the thinges in discord.
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.Cl.(Manly-Rickert)E.1164 : It were ful hard to fynde now a dayes In al a toun Grisildis thre or two.
- a1450(1412) Hoccl.RP (Hrl 4866)541 : If a wight vertuous..To lordes curtes now of dayes go [etc.].
- a1450(a1425) Mirk IPP (Cld A.2:Peacock)5 : So faren prestes now by dawe; They beth blynde in goddes lawe.
n
- (c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.1193 : Syn thilke day that they were children lite.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.NP.(Manly-Rickert)B.4063 : Syn thilke day that she was seuen nyght old.
o
- a1225(?OE) Lamb.Hom.(Lamb 487)21 : To dei..tomarʒan.
- a1225 Lamb.Hom.Pater N.(Lamb 487)63/145 : Gif us to dei ure deies bred.
- c1225(?c1200) St.Kath.(1) (Einenkel)787 : We schulen lustnin hu þi lauerd..wule werien to dei þine leasunges.
- c1330(?c1300) Guy(1) (Auch)6219 : Hou come þou hider?..Leuer me were al-on to day Þan wite þe ded.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)4.2216 : He that stant to day alofte..Tomorwe he falleth al at ones.
p
- (c1387-95) Chaucer CT.Prol.(Manly-Rickert)A.703 : With thise relikes..Vp on a day he gat hym moore moneye Than that the persoun gat in monthes tweye.
13.
Cpds. & phrases: (a) dai-belle, morning bell; ~ cercle, the rotation of days; ~ dauing, daybreak, dawn; daies-eie, eye of the day, i.e. the sun; daies-erth, ~ ardawe, [cp. erthe n.(2)], a land measure: an area plowable in one day by one team; dai-fǒul, a bird that feeds and sings in day-time; (b) daies fare, ~ gang, ~ ʒong, ~ journei, dai-gang, dai-journei, a day's journey, i.e. as far as one normally or customarily travels in one day; dai-glēm, the morning glow, dawn; ~ hete, the heat or warmth of daytime; ~ light, q.v.; ~ mǣl [OE], a sundial; ~ mēte, afternoon luncheon; ~ planete, a day planet, i.e. one that is effective in daytime; (c) dai-rēd [OE dæʒ-rǣd], dawn, daybreak; daired-sang, degred-, the eccl. office of lauds celebrated at dawn; dai-reue, -raue, -roue [cp. reue, roue row, line], the rays of dawn, dawn; ~ rim(e [OE dæʒ-rima], the rays of dawn, dawn; (d) dai-sang, the eccl. office of lauds celebrated at dawn; ~ signe, a diurnal sign of the zodiac that is effective in daytime; ~ skulker, a sneak thief; ~ spring, -springing, daies spring, daybreak, dawn; dai-sterre, q.v.; ~ thẹ̄f, one who steals in daytime; robber, bandit; also as nickname; ~ tide, the time of a natural day, 24 hours; daytime; dawn; ~ wacche, a daytime watch; daies wei, a day's journey; dai-wercāte, a land measure [see dai-werk]; dai-werk, q.v.; dai-wine, -wene [OE dæʒ-wine], a day's earnings or pay.
Associated quotations
a
- (c1300) Havelok (LdMisc 108)1132 : On the morwen, hwan day was sprungen, And day-belle at kirke rungen.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)126a/b : Þe day excitiþ..dayfoules to flee and to singe, and driueþ and feriþ away nyʒtfoules.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)332a/a : Oure grete..deled þe prouynce..in regiouns..in feldes, in centories..in Jugera, dayes erþes.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)2.5592 : Appollo..Þe daies eye & voider of þe nyʒt.
- a1475 Lydg.CB (Lngl 258)62 : Towarde even and day dawynge [vr. dawnyng] She dud hir payne, moost amorously to singe.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)32b : A Dayserth [Win: Daysardawe]: Juger, Jugerum, Jugus.
- a1500(c1386) St.Erk.(Hrl 2250)117 : Þe derke nyʒt ouer drofe and day-belle ronge.
- a1500(?a1425) Lambeth SSecr.(Lamb 501)63/30 : A mayden yn hir fadir hous knewe..þe cours of þe ʒere and þe monthys..þe aʒeynturnynges of þe planetys, þe abreggement of þe day serclys, þe tokenyng of sterrys.
- a1525(?1468) Cov.Leet Bk.338 : Þat þe Clerkis of both Chirches ryng both day-bell & curfewe in due tyme.
b
- ?a1160 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1137 : Wel þu myhtes faren al a dæis fare, sculdest thu neure finden..land tiled.
- c1225(OE) Wor.Aelfric Gloss.(Wor F.174)552/21 : Horologium: dæimæl.
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)8910 : Þeʒʒ..ferrdenn towarrd Nazaræþ An daʒʒess gang till efenn.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)1298 : He ferden forð Wel feole dawen ʒong [Otho: fale daʒes].
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)4605 : Vnder fif dawene ʒeong [Otho: bi fif daiʒene ʒong] heo comen to þisse londe.
- a1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)137/4 : Ðrie daiʒes fare.
- c1225(?c1200) St.Kath.(1) (Einenkel)2469 : Twenti dahene ʒong..as pilegrimes..seggeð.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)111b/b : Mercurius is of temperat kynde, a day planete, now male now female.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)138b/a : Dayhete dryueþ cooldnes in to þe innere parties of þe cloude.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)5842 : Þat he lat now mi folk apert Pass..Vte of his land daiganges [Trin-C: iourneyes] thre.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)11742 : I sal mak þe scort þi wai, þat þou on thritte dais long Iornes sal haf bot a dai gang.
- c1400(?c1380) Pearl (Nero A.10)1094 : Ryʒt as þe maynful mone con rys Er þenne þe day-glem dryue al doun, So sodanly on a wonder wyse I watz war of a prosessyoun.
- c1400(?a1387) PPl.C (Hnt HM 137)17.6 : When here deuer is don and his daies iourne.
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)Luke 2.44 : Thei..camen a daies iourney [WB(1): the wey of a day].
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)41a/a : Merenda: a daymete.
- ?a1425 Mandev.(2) (Eg 1982)77/3 : Þe toure of Babilon..es fra Caldee foure day iournez.
- c1450(?c1425) St.Mary Oign.(Dc 114)150/25 : As halfe oure dayeiourneye done, or wee passe ferþere..late vs reste a litil.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)32b : A Day Jornay: dieta.
- a1500(?a1390) Mirk Fest.(GoughETop 4)213/7 : By þat þe sonne ros, þay hadyn gon fyftyne day-journes.
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- 1122 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1122 : Þæt fir hi seagon in ðe dæirime, and læste swa lange þat hit wæs liht ofer eall.
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)56/5 : Hwæder he cyme on efen..oððe to hancrede, oððe on dæʒræde.
- c1175(?OE) HRood (Bod 343)28/20 : Sonæ on þet dæʒred, þa comen þa ylcæ þe hire tintreʒedon.
- a1200(OE) Hat.Gosp.(Hat 38)John 8.2 : Se hælend..com eft on dægred to þam temple.
- a1200 Trin.Hom.(Trin-C B.14.52)167 : Hwat is þis þe astihʒð alse dai rieme?
- a1225 Wint.Ben.Rule (Cld D.3)47/25 : Be sunnandeges degredsange. On þam dæʒrædsange on sunnendæʒe ærest man sceal singen [etc.].
- a1225 Wint.Ben.Rule (Cld D.3)53/8 : On þisum tyman herian we urne scyppand..on þan dæʒrede, on prime, on undernen, on myddeʒi, [etc.].
- c1275(?c1250) Owl & N.(Clg A.9)327 : Wone ich iso arise vorre oþer dairim [vr. day rewe] oþer daisterre.
- a1275 Doomsday (Trin-C B.14.39)9 : Þe engles in þe dai-red [vrr. dairet, daye-rewe] bleweð heore beme.
- a1300 Edi beo þu (Corp-O 59)9 : Þu asteʒe so þe daiʒ-rewe, þe deleð from þe deorke nicht; of þe sprong a leome newe þat al þis world haueð iliʒt.
- c1400(?c1380) Cleanness (Nero A.10)893 : Ruddon of þe day-rawe ros upon uʒten, When merk of þe mydynʒt moʒt no more last.
- c1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)5055 : Sone as þe day-rawe rase, he risis vp belyue.
- (1468) Stonor1.97 : My ffadyr is gone to God also..my modyr on Saterday by the morne, and my ffadyr on Munday by [d]ayrove.
- c1450(1446) Nightingale (Clg A.2)54 : Thys blessed brid..my hert raueshed had..Longe or the day-rowes can a-pere.
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- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)6360 : Himm birrþ ʒeornenn..Hiss Drihhtin wel to cwemenn Wiþþ daʒʒsang & wiþþ uhhtennsang.
- a1225 Wint.Ben.Rule (Cld D.3)53/12 : Hu felan sealmas man sceall to þan daʒtiden secʒen.
- (1246) Assize R.Lan.in LCRS 4767 : Richard Daythef.
- c1270 *Merton College Records [OD col.]No.1257 (Essex) : Sex Daywercatas terrae meae.
- (c1280) Cust.Battle Abbey in Camd.n.s.4174 : Quilibet prædictorum debet iiijor deywynes per unum hominem.
- c1330(?a1300) Arth.& M.(Auch)8799 : Passed was þe day springing, Þe hote sonne was schininge.
- (1338) Doc.Manor in MP 3444 : Metet et ligat j acram dimidiam frumenti..pro uno daywene.
- (1353) Doc.Manor in MP 3444 : Daywynes.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Dc 369(1))Job 38.12 : Whether aftir thi rising thou comaundedist to the morutid [L diluculo] and hast shewid to the dai spring [L auroræ] his place?
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))John 10.1 : He that cometh not in by the dore in to the fold of the scheep, but stiʒeth vp by another weye, is nyʒt thef and day thef [L fur est et latro].
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)110a/a : Þe signe þat hatte gemini is airy, male, mene, & a day signe.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)110b/b : Sagittarius þat signe is fury, male, mene & a day signe.
- c1400(?a1300) KAlex.(LdMisc 622)4283 : Day-spryngynge is jolif tyde.
- ?a1425(a1415) Wycl.Lantern (Hrl 2324)93/20 : Þei ben niʒt-þeues & dai-þeues, þat entren in bi a broken wowe.
- a1425(a1382) WBible(1) (Corp-O 4)Gen.30.36 : A space of thre daies weye [L spatium itineris trium dierum].
- a1425(?a1400) PCounsel.(Hrl 674)160/8 : Who-so entreþ not by þis dore, bot clymbeþ oþer-wise to perfeccion..is not only a niʒt þeef bot a day skulker.
- a1425 KAlex.(LinI 150)3574 : Ryʒt in þe day spryng [Ld: dayes sprynge] Tholomeus con on heom flyng.
- (1444) *Doc.Maldon1.1.32b : So the shyppe lye three daye tydis wt in the porte, that the free men bey it a fore eny foreyn.
- a1450(c1410) Lovel.Grail (Corp-C 80)20.182 : On of his knythes..Conseilled him forto Abyde Til it were more to the day tyde.
- a1450(1408) *Vegetius(1) (Dc 291)67a : Nyʒt wacche moot be made wiþ oute þe wardes of þe oost and þe day wacche wiþ inne þe oost.
- c1475(a1400) Wycl.Pseudo-F.(Dub 245)300 : Þis spoylyng is falsere þen open raueyn of dai þeues.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Correction: in sense 13.(d) add the compound ~ sterne to the sense and either make the cross-reference "see sterne n.(1) (f)" or gloss the collocation, pull it, and use the four quots with the -n from the present dai-sterre n. entry. (In 'S' sterne n.(1) and sterre are two separate entries, so they have to be separated in the compoounds, too.) I handled it under sterne n.(1) to get it in correctly, without making reference to the entry in 'D' at all.--per MJW
Note: Correction: in sense 5.(b), on (in, bi) his dai (daies) is all that is needed. The alternative spellings of the plural should not be given. In sense 5.(c), in the phrase ben of dawe, dawe is an 'also' spelling of the entry form, so the phrase should be ben of ~. There may be other examples of this sort; check all the bold-faced phrases in all senses.--per MJW
Note: In sense 9.(a), the phrase withouten ~ is seriously misglossed, as "without one's day in court" but this expression actually indicates success in the case. See yede v. sense 14.(d): ~ withouten dai, = law. departed the court with a definitive successful verdict.--per JLS
Note: Remove the three quots (and any corresponding forms from the form section) with ~ tide from sense 13.(d), namely a1225 Wint.Ben.Rule, (1444) *Doc.Maldon, and 1450(c1410) Lovel. Grail. This compound now has its own entry.--per MLL
Note: In sense 13.(d), add the compound dai-sterne and "see sterne n.(1) (f)."
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- (c1475) Ordin.Househ.Edw.IV (Hrl 642)31 : A chamberlayn for the King…taketh his brekefast, if he wulle, in opyn dayes.
- (c1475) Ordin.Househ.Edw.IV (Hrl 642)41 : These groomes also ete withoute the grete chambre pryvately, as theyre course goeth about dayly in opyn dayes, taking iiii loves, iiii messes of kytchen of grete mete, ii gallons ale.
Note: New compound.
Note: Quot. belongs to sense 13.
Note: open ~ = ?a rest day, a day on which no service is required from a member of the king's household.
- (c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.2736 : Duc Theseus…heeld a feeste dayes three.
Note: Additional quot.
Note: Quot. belongs in sense 4.(a) (used adverbially).
Note: Gloss: daies thre, for three days.
- ?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)3.m.12.62 : This fable apertinith to…whosoevere desireth…to lede his thought into the sovereyn day, that is to seyn, to cleernesse of sovereyn good.
Note: Quot. belongs to dai n., sense 3.(a)= daylight. This is a better quot. than most (if entry is re-done to eliminate the daies light, light of ~, etc. phrases, it will be needed.--per MJW
- (c1426) Audelay Poems (Dc 302)p.vii : The 'day of dome' shuld come in here, Vor the defawte of the wrytere, At the xiij leef afore hyt ys; Seche hyt there--thou shalt nott mys.
Note: The expression "dai of dome" refers to a title or incipit of a lost work by John Audelay. Probably belongs to sense 7.
- c1300 SLeg.Brendan (Hrl 2277:Wright)p.29 : To morwe arys sone days, to the see thu must wende
Note: New form: early plural dais.
Note: [Ld: ʒwane it is day]
Note: In phrase: sone daies, early in the day. (See sone adv., sense 4.(b).) Belongs to sense 12b.?
- c1300 SLeg.Geo.(1) (LdMisc 108)30 : Þov schalt in oþere ribaudies sone daiʒes beo i-do.
Note: New spelling: early plural daiʒes.
Note: In phrase: sone daies, early in the day. (See sone adv., sense 4.(b).) Belongs to sense 12b.?
- a1325 SLeg.Juliana (Corp-C 145)193 : Ne spareþ noʒt…ac hieð faste þat heo of dawe beo.
Note: New form?
Note: Antedates sense
Note: Quot. belongs to sense 5.(c).
- ?a1425(c1350) Apollonius (Dc 216)54 : By har dawe wymmen did þat offys of prest.
Note: Belongs to sense 12c.(d); tweak existing gloss to include: bi hire dawe, during her lifetime, reign, etc.
- a1450(?c1350) Pride Life (ChrC-Dub)334 : Geyl is mad a cepman And truyt is don of dau.
Note: New form.
Note: In phrase: ben don of ~, to be dead.
Note: The list of variant spellings in the form section may be incomplete and / or may need revision to accord with standards of later volumes of the MED.--notes per MLL