Middle English Dictionary Entry
Thūres-dai n.
Entry Info
| Forms | Thūres-dai n. Also thurs(e)dai(e, thurdai, thoresdai(e, thor(u)sdai, thersdai, thrusdai, throst- & (early) þuresdæg, -dei, þursdei, (Orm.) þurrsdaȝȝ & (?error in comb.) -terday, (error) þiuisdai. |
| Etymology | OE þūres-dæg, þurs-, þurres-, vars. of þunres-dæg influenced by ON (cp. OI þōrs-dagr). |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. thonder n.3.
1.
(a) The fifth day of the week, Thursday; also, the fourth day of the Creation [quot. c1390]; (b) in adv. usage: the (than) ~, on Thursday, on Thursdays, Thursdays; (c) the word 'Thursday'; (d) in cpds., combs., & phrases: ~ gospel, the gospel reading for a Thursday; ~ market, a market held on Thursdays; ~ night; cene ~ [see cene n. 2.]; holi (halwe, hole, maunde, shere, shire, shrof) ~, the day before Christ's Crucifixion; also, Maundy Thursday [see also Halwe Thurs-dai n., Holi Thurs-dai n., sher(e Thuresdai phr., shir(e Thuresdai phr., shrof-Thures dai n.]; holi thures-dai(es even; shrof ~ night; (e) in place name: ~ market.
Associated quotations
a
- a1150(?OE) Vsp.D.Hom.(Vsp D.14)66/20 : Ðonne forme gearesdæig byð Sunendæig, hit byð..dryge sumer..Ðonne hit byð Þuresdæg, hit byð..god sumer & god hærfest.
- c1300 Lay.Brut (Otho C.13)6951 : Woden we ȝefue Wendesdei; Þane þonre we ȝefue Þorisdai [Clg: Þunres-dæi].
- c1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)11210 : Þe verste þorsdai [vr. þurday] in lente.
- c1390(a1325) Ipotis (Vrn)133 : On þe þoresday god made beestes fale.
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)16.160 : On a thoresday in thesternesse..was he taken..ihesus.. Þat on þe fryday folwynge..Iusted in ierusalem.
- (1415) Doc.Conspir.Hen.V in D.K.R.43584 : I cum to Londun and was yer a sefenneghte and alsmeche as form [read: from] ye Tiseday to ye Thursday.
- a1425 MChristi (Arun 286)66/2222 : Þis sacrament Jhesu Crist made in þe Þursday nexte before þe Fryday þat he dyed onne, as he sete at þe soper wiþ his derest frendys.
- a1425 Daniel *Treat.Uroscopy (Wel 225)263/3301 : Luna is þe fyrst planet þat regnes o þe Monday at mydnyȝt byfore; Mars o þe Tuysday; Marcure, þe Wednysday; Jupiter, Thursday.
- c1440 Bonav.Medit.(3) (Thrn)207 : He sufferde withowttyne cessynge fro þe thursedaye at euene to þe ffrydaye at hey-none.
- (1469) Paston (EETS)1.341 : Letyng ȝow wete þat on Thurysday last was my moder..wyth my lord of Norwych.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)128a : Thwrsday: dies Iouis.
- a1486 Progn.Thunder(3) (Mrg M 775)354 : If the mone chaunge..on the Thurday, it signifyeth bryȝt weþer and clere.
- a1500(1413) ?Hoccl.Poems PS (Eg 615)p.xlix : On thursday, a noble soper þou made Where thu ordeyned first thi sacrament.
b
- c1300 SLeg.Becket (LdMisc 108)743 : He let somony seint thomas þat þe nexte þoresdaie he were At Norehamptoune bi-fore seint lucus dai to ȝiuen him Answere.
- c1300 SLeg.Becket (LdMisc 108)1126 : Þene þores-dai to lincolne he cam.
- (c1384) WBible(1) TL (F&M)685 : The i Sonday of Lentyn..The Thursday: Ezechiel xviij.
- a1400(c1303) Mannyng HS (Hrl 1701)7280 : Also falle men yn plyght Þat sytte vp þe Þursday at nyght And ouerlong ete flesshe and drunke Aftyr þat mydnyght ys runge.
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)16.140 : Þe þorsday [vrr. thoresday, þorusday] byfore..he made his maundee.
- (1429) J.Boys in Nrf.Archaeol.15145 : The thursday, ij lod of sond, price viij d.
- (1451) Pet.Hen.VI in Archaeol.Ael.n.s.3185 : The forseid shippe..the Thuresday next afore the Feste of Pentecoste..by the Kynges enmys of Depe was taken.
- (1457) Doc.in Gilbert Cal.Dublin 1294 : The franchez schold be ryd the Thorsday next folowyng.
- a1475 Godstow Reg.(Rwl B.408)613/9 (2nd occurrence) : In-to wittnes of þe whiche she put to her seel, þe date vppon shere thursdai, fallinge þe thursdai a-fore þe fest of þe annunciacion, [etc.].
- -?-(1466) Will in Som.RS 16209 : I will that a taper of wex of a pound weight every yere..Wennesday, Thursday and goode Friday..be lighted.
c
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)107/6 : Make vii candellis of virgine wax, and vrite in þe furst candell 'sunday' and..in þe vte 'thorisday'.
d
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)5989 : Ure Laferrd Crist..stah upp till heoffne O þatt daȝȝ þatt upponn Ennglissh Iss Hallȝhe Þurrs- daȝȝ nemmnedd.
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)24/4 : Te blisfule sune..se mihtilice on hali þursdei [Cleo: þuresdei] stihe to his blisse in to his riche of heouene.
- a1275 Louerd asse þu ard (Trin-C B.14.39)313 : On þe halewe þiuisdai [?read: þurisdai] to heuene he steyc.
- c1390 Dial.Bern.& V.(2) (Vrn)571 : On Serterday [vr. Scherthursday] I haue herd How he was went awei from þe.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)18781 : Apon þat hali thrusdai [Göt: hal thures-day; Trin-C: holy þurseday] þus went ihesus to graith ur wai.
- c1400 Glo.Chron.A (Add 19677)8120 : Holi þorsdai [B vr. thursdayes] eue [Clg: Hii bigonne an hal þores euen þen toun to asaili þere].
- (?a1400) Mem.Bk.York in Sur.Soc.12513 : Feoda custodum fori de Thoresdaymarket.
- a1425 Mannyng HS (Bod 415)7282 : Also falle men yn plyght Þat sitte vp on þe þursday nyght And ouerlong ete flesshe & drunke After þat mydnyght ys runge.
- a1425 Wycl.Serm.(Bod 788)1.325 : Joon restide on Shir Þursdaie in þe soper on Cristis brest.
- a1425 Wycl.Serm.(Bod 788)2.107 : Þe þursdai Gospel in þe fifþe weke in Lente.
- (1425) Mem.Bk.York in Sur.Soc.12057 : Ad mercatum de Thoresdaymarket.
- (1440) Capgr.St.Norb.(Hnt HM 55)3186 : The Lent went fast, Maunde Þursday is come, Whann of that sacrament a commemoracioun We maken.
- a1450 SLeg.MPChr.(StJ-C B.6)2077 : Oure lord a Scherys þrusday vpon euesong tyme sone His cene made with his disciplis.
- c1450 LChart.Chr.A (BodAdd C.280)41/214a : On halþrost day..y went vp-on my fadyr reth honde To deme þe qwyk & eke þe deyd.
- (a1464) Capgr.Chron.(Cmb Gg.4.12)56/29 : He ordeyned that euery ȝere, on Schere or Maunde Þursday, the pope schuld consecrate crisme.
- (1467-8) Doc.in HMC Rep.5 App.524a : Paied in expences..onne Schroff Thersday, 9 s. 4 d.
- a1475(a1400) Lystyn man & (Hrl 3954)297 : God..it [Eucharist] be gan For ye sauacyoun of man Quan he gan hys maunde take On ye shyre thursday quan he was take.
- a1500 *Dial.Anselm & OL (LdMisc 38)1a : When my son made his soper to his disciplys on shrof thursday nyȝt, Iudas rose and went to the princys of the prystes.
- a1500 ?Scrope Rule St.Linus (Lamb 192)264 : He schall faste euery day in lenton..that is to sey, fro holy thursday vn to whitsonday.
e
- (1377) Mem.Bk.York in Sur.Soc.12026 : De tenemento..juxta Thuresday market, iiij s. iiij d.
- (1437) Will York in Sur.Soc.3070 : Duo tenementa in Thuresdaymarket.
- (1439) Doc.in Collect.Topogr.2150 : Lego Katerinæ filiæ meæ..uxori Roberti..duo tenementa in le Thursday-market in Ebor.