high-tide
[OE. héaht{iacu}d, f. high a. + tide. Only in OE. and early ME.; in mod. Eng. ad. Ger. hochzeit.]
A high time, high day, festival.
| a 1000 Laws of æthelred v. c. 14 (Schmid) To æᵹhwilces apostoles heahtide. c 1250 Gen. & Ex. 1507 At heȝ tide and at gestning. 1837 Carlyle Fr. Rev. II. i. x, A ‘Feast of Pikes, Fête des Piques’, notablest among the hightides of the year. 1870 Morris Earthly Par. II. iii. 194 Unto the town, Where for the high-tide folk were dight. 1884 Symonds Shaks. Predec. viii. 315 To attend her high-tides, was the privilege and pleasure of a congregated nation. |