Middle English Dictionary Entry
shēr(e Thuresdai phr.
Entry Info
| Forms | shēr(e Thuresdai phr. Also sheresthursdai, chere-, (SW) sserethoresdai & (?error) serterday. |
| Etymology | From vars. of skēr(e adj. & Thuresdai n.; cp. OI skīri-þōrsdagr, OSwed. skœ̄ra-þorsdagher. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. shir(e Thuresdai phr., skir(e adj.(f).
1.
(a) The day before the Crucifixion of Christ; (b) eccl. Maundy Thursday, the celebration of Holy Thursday.
Associated quotations
a
- a1275 Judas (Trin-C B.14.39)1 : Hit wes up-on a scereþorsday þat vre louerd..spec to iudas.
- c1300 SLeg.(LdMisc 108)267/223 : Ore swete louerd a-schere-þores-day at eue A-mong his desciples made is cene.
- a1325(c1280) SLeg.Pass.(Pep 2344)131 : Fram palmesonne eue ffor-to Shereþorsday Oure lord ȝeode to Bethanye.
- a1325 SLeg.John (Corp-C 145)25 : For þe wile he made is cene as a Ssereþoresday Sein Ion lenede op is brest & wel softe aslepe lay.
- c1390(?a1300) Stations Rome(1) (Vrn)307 : Þe Table þer men may se Þat crist made on his maunde On scherþorsday [vr. Shrofe thursday] whon he brak bred.
- c1390 Dial.Bern.& V.(2) (Vrn)571 : On Serterday [vr. Scherthursday] I haue herd How he was went awei from þe.
- c1400 Bk.Mother (Bod 416)144/2 : [Ld: Lerne of Crist, hou he wosche] þe fet of his disciples on Shere þorsdai.
- a1450 Dial.Bern.& V.(2) (Cmb Dd.1.1)193 : On Scherthursday [Vrn: cene þursday] wiþin þe nyht þe Jewis toke him alle in same.
- a1500(?a1390) Mirk Fest.(GoughETop 4)169/5 : Oure Lord Ihesu Crist on Chere Þursday at nyȝt..ordeynet a perpetual memory of his passion forto abyde wyth his pepul.
- a1500(?c1440) Lydg.HGS (Lnsd 699)320 : This Paschale Lamb..yaff His bodi to man in forme of bred On Sheerthursday be-forn ar He was ded.
- ?a1525(?a1475) Play Sacr.(Dub 652)398 : On Shere Thursday at hys sopere He brake the brede and sayd Accipite.
b
- a1200 Trin.Hom.(Trin-C B.14.52)95 : Þridde siðe palm sunedeies procession, feorðe siðes shereðuresdaies absolucio[n] þe liðe þe sinne bendes, [etc.].
- a1200 Trin.Hom.(Trin-C B.14.52)99 : Gif we bien cumen on bicumeliche wise..a sheresðursdai to absoluciun, [etc.].
- c1300 SLeg.Brendan (LdMisc 108)360 : A-schereþores-day huy comen þudere in gret trauaile inouȝ.
- c1400 *Aelred Inst.(1) (Vrn)988 : Walke forþ in-to þat faire large halle frhesly [read: freshly] istrowed and adiȝt for cristes soper a schereþursday.
- c1400 WBible(2) TL (Roy 1.B.6)686 : Scher Thursdai [WB(1): Palme Sonday..The Monday..The Thursday].
- ?a1425(c1400) Mandev.(1) (Tit C.16)12/8 : On the scherethorsday make þei here therf bred.
- a1450(a1425) Mirk IPP (Cld A.2)640 : A-non after schere þursday, Thow moste chawnge þyn oyle also.
- (1462) Doc.in HBS 2559 : The dekyn..schall orden on schere thursday a byrche besom for the pryst that waschythe the awtars.
- (a1464) Capgr.Chron.(Cmb Gg.4.12)56/28 : Fabian..ordeyned þat euery ȝere, on Schere or Maunde Þursday, þe Pope schuld consecrate crisme.
- a1475 Godstow Reg.(Rwl B.408)613/9 : She put to her seel þe date vppon shere thursdai, fallinge þe thursdai a-fore þe fest of þe annunciacion of owr lady.
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)7.439 : Venerable Anselme..was beryede on Scherethursday.
- a1500(?a1390) Mirk Fest.(GoughETop 4)125/10 : Hyt is alsoo in Englysch tonge: Scher Þursday; for in old fadyrs dayes, men wold þat day make scher hom honest, and dodde hor heddys, and clyp hor berdys.
- a1500(?c1425) Spec.Sacer.(Add 36791)33/27 : Generall absoluciouns ben makyd as in the begynnyng of Lente and in Shere Thoresday.