Middle English Dictionary Entry
Sater-dai n.
Entry Info
| Forms | Sater-dai n. Also satirdai(e, satterdai(e, saturdai(e, scaturdai, seterdai(e, setterdai, set(t)ir-, seturdaie, setturdai, setri-, ceter- (K) zeterdai, -dei & sateresdai, satirs-, satursdai(e, saturesdai, saturn(e)s-, seters-, set(t)res- & (early) sæterdæig, saterda(i)ȝ, sæteresdæȝ, (early SWM) sætterdæi, setteresdei, (early SW) seternesdæg. |
| Etymology | OE Sætern-dæg, Sæter-, Sæt(e)res-, Saternes-, Seternes-. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The seventh day of the week, Saturday, the Sabbath; (b) ~ in albis, the Saturday in Easter Week, Easter Saturday; ~ in estern even, holi ~, the Saturday before Easter, Holy Saturday; saterdaies even, Saturday evening; (c) the word 'Saturday'; (d) in adv. usage: (the) ~, on Saturday, on Saturdays, Saturday; saterdaies, on Saturdays; (e) as surname and in place name.
Associated quotations
a
- a1150(?OE) Vsp.D.Hom.(Vsp D.14)66/23 : Ðonne hit [New Year's Day] byð Sæterdæig, hit byð scurfah winter & windig læinten, & ealle wæstmes yfeles gewænde, scep cwelleð & ealde mænn.
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)70/4,7 : Þa Iudeiscan heoldon heom to freolsdæȝe þonne Sæteresdæȝ & na ðone Sunnendæȝ..Ðe Sæteresdæȝ þe heo swa swiðe freolsoden is ure gastlice freols, þe we for Gode sceolon haldan.
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)4350 : Saterrdaȝȝ wass haliȝ daȝȝ O þatt Judisskenn wise.
- a1225(?OE) Lamb.Hom.(Lamb 487)9 : Efere to þam setteres dei heo, comen, þa iudeisce folc, to settes tima to þan sinagoge and hereden heore drihten swa heore laȝe wes; Þat wes heore sunedei.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)6953 : Saturnus heo ȝiuen Sætterdæi [Otho: Sateresdai].
- a1225 Wint.Ben.Rule (Cld D.3)79/4 : Ðære cycenen wuceðenestre on þone seternesdæȝ æȝðer ȝe fatan þeawan, ȝe wæterclaðas waxan, þe hy heore honde & fet mid wipodan.
- ?a1300 Psalt.Virg.(Dgb 86)87 : He sau..Oure leuedi foul of miȝtte, A settres-day.
- c1300 SLeg.Theoph.(LdMisc 108)161 : Þis cas bi-feol in leinte on a satures-day at niȝt.
- c1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)2440 : After ech of hom in þe wouke ycluped is a day; Verst þe sonne & so þe oþere, & þe seueþe saturday.
- (1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)213/2 : God het..straytlice loki þane zeterday ine þe yealde laȝe.
- c1390 11 Pains(3) (Vrn)259/328 : Þis rest I ȝiue ȝow ful soon ffrom þe seter-day at Non, Til þe secunde hour beo cum On þe Monenday.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Mil.(Manly-Rickert)A.3399 : So bifel it on a Saterday [vr. seturdaie] This carpenter was goon til Osenay.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)127a/b : Among þe hebrews..no work of seruage..was i-suffred to be do in þe Satirday..mete þat was nedeful in þe satirday was i-greyþid and I-maad redy in þe day toforehonde. In þe Satirday men were a rayed and i-hiȝt wiþ here beste cloþis.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)p.22 : Saturnus: setturday.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)21615 : Ilk paskes for to se Was men wont þat hali tre..þe emperur..A-pon..mande..þe clerge on þe seters-dai.
- a1425 Wycl.Serm.(Bod 788)2.17 : Crist hadde custum for to preche on Saturdaie.
- ?a1425 Mandev.(2) (Eg 1982)61/20 : Es a riuer þat es called Sabatory, for on þe Seterday it rynnez fast and all þe weke elles it standes still.
- c1440(?a1400) Morte Arth.(1) (Thrn)1550 : Ȝe may haue..sextie horse chargede Of siluer be Seterdaye.
- c1450(c1440) Scrope Othea (StJ-C H.5)18/26 : Satirday is named aftir Saturne, and the metalle that we calle leede is yoven therto, and it is a planete of slowe condicion, hevi and wise.
- (c1447) Invent.Monk-Wear.in Sur.Soc.29app.242 : Whilliam Hilton apon Saturnesday next be for Palmsonday laid haund apon ye mastre of Wermouth vnlawfully.
- a1450(1391) Chaucer Astr.(Benson-Robinson)2.12.26 : The firste houre inequal of every Saturday is to Saturne, and the seconde to Jupiter.
- a1450 *Aelred Inst.(2) (Bod 423)379 : Vpon the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday..vse but Lent metes.
- (1474) in Salzman Building in Engl.64 : The sayde carpenters and masons shall be lycenced to leve worke every Saturnsdaie in the yere that is no even to any Principall fest at iij of the clocke; And upon any even of pryncipall fest at none; and upon any even that is Vygill at iij of the clocke at after none, accordyng to the rule of the satursdais; And upon other sayntes dais hallowed nother even to pryncypall fest, Vygill ne satursdaye, to labor unto v of the clocke.
- -?-(?a1495) Ordin.Househ.Cecily Neville ()38* : Upon satterdaye at dynner, saltfyshe, One freshfishe, and butter.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)111a : Settyrday [Monson: Setryday]: Dies sabbati.
- a1500(c1410) Dives & P.(Htrn 270)1.183 : It folwith nout þerof þat it schulde ben..hungir or pestilence ȝif it [New Year's Day] fellyn on þe Sattyrday.
- a1500 A man þt will (Cmb Ff.5.48)275 : On þe ceterday when þe ȝere begynnes, Micull gode þe wise mon wynnes.
- a1500 Partenay (Trin-C R.3.17)2724 : So it cam and fill in a scaturday That Raymounde loste the fair melusine.
- a1475 *Sidrak & B.(Lnsd 793)7480 : Of al þe ȝeer þe worþiest day We shulde it holde þe Satirday, Whanne God had heuen and erþe wroght And alle þinges þerynne y-broght.
- -?-(1415) Will in Som.RS 16402 : On Setrysday in ye vygyle of ye holy Trynyte.
b
- c1300 SLeg.Brendan (LdMisc 108)548 : Here ich am euer-ech sonenday, and fram saterdayȝes eue For-to euen-song tyme þane sonenday here i schal bi-leue.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)127b/a : On þe Satirsday in albis double alleluya was I-songe.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)129a/b : Also to estir perteyneþ þe euen þerof, þat for passinge holynesse is I-clepid Sabbatum sanctum, þe holy Satirday.
- a1500(?a1390) Mirk Fest.(GoughETop 4)68/31,34 : Holy chyrche ys yn mornyng for hur chyldyr from þis day [Septuagesima Sunday] ynto Setyrday yn Astyr-euen..scho ys not ȝet yn full murth tyll..Settyrday in Albis.
c
- (1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)7/14 : Þis word zeterday, þet þe iurie clepeþ sabat, is ase moche worþ ase reste.
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)107/7 : Make vii candellis of virgine-wax, and vrite in þe furst candell sunday..and in þe viite satirday.
d
- a1275 Body & S.(3) (Trin-C B.14.39)16 : Þer noldes friday festen to no [read: non], Ne þe setterday almesse don.
- c1300 SLeg.Becket (LdMisc 108)813 : Þene saturdai to court eft-sone he wende.
- (1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)213/5 : He made ane man to stene..uor þet he hedde ygadered a lite wode þane zeterdey.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)17673 : Als i stod saiand mi bede, þe seterdai.
- c1400(a1376) PPl.A(1) (Trin-C R.3.14)5.202 : Aftir al þis surfet an axesse he hadde Þat he slepte satirday & sonneday til sonne ȝede to reste.
- c1400(?a1387) PPl.C (Hnt HM 137)7.173 : Ich shal..saterdayes, for þy loue, Drynke bote with þe douke and dyne bote ones.
- (1411) RParl.3.650a : A Bille surmettyng on the same Robert that he, the Saterday neghst after the fest of Seint Michael..dyd assemble greet noumbre of men.
- (1415) Doc.Conspir.Hen.V in D.K.R.43585 : Setrday I com to my logyng to Hamulton.
- ?1435(1432) Lydg.Hen.VI Entry (Jul B.2)497 : The Shereves..The Saturday alther next suyng, Theire Meire presented.
- a1450 Mandev.(3) (BodeMus 116)15/7 : Thour al the yer they faste neuere no Satirdayes.
- ?a1450 MLChrist (Add 39996)4140 : Þe Saturday after in þe mornynge Þe Iewes made her gederinge.
- a1475 Godstow Reg.(Rwl B.408)543/18 : The saturday next after the fest of Seynt marye Mawdeleyn.
- a1475 *Sidrak & B.(Lnsd 793)6056 : A flood þer is þat renneþ ay Al þe weke but þe Satirday.
e
- (1194) in Pipe R.Soc.n.s.5118 : Alanus Saterdai.
- (1280) Inquis.Miscel.(PRO)1.599 : William Seterday.
- (1365) Nickname in LuSE 55158 : Will. Seterday.
- (1379) Nickname in LuSE 55158 : Will. Ceterday.
- c1383 Reg.Gaunt in RHS ser.3.21315 : Un place appelle Satirday marketh.