Sunday

Sunday, n.
  (ˈsʌndeɪ, -dɪ)
  Forms: see below.
  [OE. sunnandæᵹ, = OFris. sunnan-, sunnen-, sonnendei, -di (NFris. sanndai, senndei, sönndei, EFris. sendei, -di, etc.), OS. sunnun-, sunnondag, MLG. sunnen-, sun-, sondach, (MDu. sonnendach, sondagh, Du. zondag), OHG. sunnûn or sunnon dag or tag (MHG. sunnen or sonnen tag, sunnetac, suntac, etc., G. sonntag), ON. sunnudagr (Sw., Da. s{obar}ndag); transl. of late L. diēs sōlis = late Gr. ἡµέρα ἡλίου ‘day of the sun’.
  Now (like the other names of days of the week) with initial capital, which is frequent in early texts, but does not become regular till the 17th.]
  1. a. The first day of the week, observed by Christians as a day of rest and worship, in commemoration of Christ's resurrection; the Lord's Day.
  (α) 1 sunnandæᵹ, 2 sunnen dæi, sunnondæᵹ, 2–5 sonenday, 3 sunen-, 3–4 sonnen-, 4 sonun-, 4–5 sonnon-, sonon(n)-, 5 sonoun-, sunun-.

a 700 Laws of Ine c. 3 Ᵹif ðeowmon wyrce on Sunnandæᵹ. 971 Blickl. Hom. 47 Þæt hi Sunnandaᵹum..Godes cyrican ᵹeorne secan. c 1154 O.E. Chron. an. 1154 On þe sunnen dæi be foren midwinter dæi. c 1250 Gen. & Ex. 261 Ihesus..Ros fro ded on ðe sunenday. a 1300–1400 Cursor M. 17288 + 1 (Cott.) On sononday in þe daghyng, he ros fro ded to liue. 1357 Lay Folks Catech. (T.) 49 Openly on Inglis opon sononndaies Teche and preche thaim, that thai haue cure of. 1375 Barbour Bruce v. 335 The folk apon the sononday Held to Sanct Brydis kirk thar way. a 1400 Relig. Pieces fr. Thornton MS. 5 The thirde commandement es þat we halde and halowe oure haly day, þe sonondaye. c 1400 Mandeville (Roxb.) iii. 10 On þe Setirday and on þe Sonounday.

  (β) 1 Northumb. sunnadæᵹ, (-doeᵹ), sunnedæ, 2 sunne-dei, 2–3 sunedai, 3 sune-day, sonedæi, -dai, 3–4 soneday, (4 sonneday(e).

c 950 Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. xii. 1 Sabbato, in sunnadæᵹ. Ibid. John v. 16–18 In sabbato, in symbeldæᵹ... Sabbatum, ðone sunnedae. c 1175 Lamb. Hom. 45 Amansed beo þe mon þe sunne-dei nulle iloken. c 1205 Lay. 13934 Þene Sunne heo ȝiuen sonedæi. 1297 R. Glouc. (Rolls) 8724 Þe soneday he was ycrouned. 13.. St. Alexius (Laud 108) 338 Vpon þe holy soneday. 1393 Langl. P. Pl. C. x. 227 Vp-on sonedays to cesse godes seruyce to huyre.

  (γ) 3–4 sundai, 4 sundaye, sondai, -dey, zonday, Sc. sownday, 4–6 Sc. sounday, 4–7 sonday, (5 sondaw, Sc. sonda), 5–6 sondaye, 6 sunnedaye, 6–7 sundaie, 4– sunday, Sunday.

a 1300 X Commandm. 25 in E.E.P. (1862) 16 Þe secunde so is þis sundai wel þat ȝe holde. 1303 R. Brunne Handl. Synne 806 Of al þe festys þat yn holy chyrche are, Holy sunday men oght to spare. 1340 Ayenb. 7 Oure lhord aros uram dyaþe to lyue þane zonday. c 1375 Sc. Leg. Saints xxv. (Julian) 128 A housband..telyt his land one sownday. 1387 Trevisa Higden (Rolls) V. 199 Þe credo þat is i-songe þe Sondayes [v.r. Sondawes]. 1456 Paston Lett. I. 386 The King hathe ley in London Friday, Saterday, Sonday. 1526 Tindale Rev. i. 10, I was in the sprete on a sondaye. 1561 Winȝet Four Scoir Thre Quest. To Rdr., Wks. (S.T.S.) I. 53 At Pasche and certane Soundays efter. 1596 Shakes. Tam. Shr. ii. i. 397 Now on the sonday following, shall Bianca Be Bride to you. 1633 G. Herbert Temple, Sunday iv, Sundaies the pillars are, On which heav'ns palace arched lies. 1750 Johnson Rambler No. 10 ¶7, I seldom frequent card⁓tables on Sundays. 1839 Longfellow Vill. Blacksmith v, He goes on Sunday to the church, And sits among his boys. 1887 Ruskin Præterita II. vi. 198 It was thirteen years later before I made a sketch on Sunday.

  b. With specific epithet, as Advent, Midlent, Mothering, Trinity (q.v.). † the Sunday of the Passion: Passion Sunday.

1297 R. Glouc. (Rolls) 10178 Þe sonenday of þe passion.

  c. colloq. phr. when two Sundays come together (meet), never. a month of Sundays, a very long time. (one's) Sunday out, the monthly or other Sunday on which a domestic servant is free; hence Sunday outer. Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes, suit, a humorous expansion of Sunday clothes, etc. (cf. go-to-meeting, go v. VIII); also ellipt. as Sunday-go-to-meetings.

1670 Ray Collect. Prov. 194 When two Sundays meet. 1677 Coles Eng.-Lat. Dict. s.v., When two Sundays come together. 1831 Sunday-go-to-meetings [see go-to-meeting n.]. 1831 J. R. Motte Diary 28 Aug. in A. H. Cole Charleston goes to Harvard (1940) 100 Rose at 7, and having shaved and dressed myself,—in Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes, started for a walk to Boston. 1841 Punch 21 Aug. 65/1 A veritable footman,..upon the occasion of his ‘Sunday out’. 1846 D. Corcoran Pickings from Picayune 49 The hoosier asked him if he thought him ‘darn'd fool enough to dirty his Sunday-go-to-meetin' clothes’? 1847 J. Codman Sailor's Life & Sailor's Yarns 25 He.. dressed himself in his ‘Sunday-go-to-meetings’..and bade adieu to home. 1849 G. E. Jewsbury Let. 29 Mar. (1892) 286 If I don't get a better letter from you, or at least a letter with something in it, you may pass ‘a month of Sundays’ at breakfast without any letter from me. 1850 Kingsley Alt. Locke xxvii, I haven't heard more fluent or passionate English this month of Sundays. 1858 [see out adv. 15 b]. 1864 F. Locker Housemaid i. 6 Thou canst not stir, because 'tis not Thy Sunday out. 1879 Dickens Life Charles James Mathews I. i. 30 A couple advanced who evidently did not belong to the usual class of ‘Sunday outers’. 1888 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms xliv, I ain't been out of this blessed hole..for a month of Sundays. 1894 Baring-Gould Queen of Love I. ii. 15 All in your Sunday-go-to-meeting togs. 1896 A. E. Housman Shropshire Lad xxv, Rose Harland on her Sundays out Walked with the better man. 1900 E. Glyn Visits Elizabeth (1906) 15 Such funny, grand, best smart Sunday-go-to-meeting looking clothes.

  d. pl. ellipt. for: (a) Sunday clothes or best; (b) Sunday newspapers.

(a) 1901 ‘Mark Twain’ in Century Mag. Nov. 26/2 Tommy was..not in his Sundays, but in his dreadful work-clothes. 1933 Punch 14 June 663/1 Tom was busy brushing up his Sundays to go a-calling at the stationmaster's house. 1944 E. Carr House of All Sorts 89 Neither of them noticed the dust on his ‘Sundays’ as they smiled off down the street.

(b) 1949 E. Benn Happier Days x. 116 The Sundays and Weeklies were outside the squabbles of the Dailies. 1963 Listener 24 Jan. 175/3 An English reviewer, writing in one of the ‘posh Sundays’..recently claimed that only Dubliners are now writing outstanding prose. 1976 T. Stoppard Dirty Linen 9 They each carry several newspapers, a whole crop of the day's papers and the Sundays. 1983 Listener 27 Jan. 18/3 There are the smart Sundays, the Guardian's Agenda page on Monday mornings, and pieces such as this in the literate weeklies.

  2. Saint Sunday, a rendering of Sanctus Dominicus = St. Dominic, due to confusion with L. dies dominica (see Dominical a. 2, Dominican) = Sunday. local.
  St. Dominic's Abbey, Cork, is called St. Sunday's Abbey in an inquisition about the end of Elizabeth's reign (N. & Q. 5th Ser. IX. 254), and the Dominican friary in Drogheda was situated near Sunday's Gate (D'Alton Hist. Drogheda, 1844, I. 120).

1490 Yatton Churchw. Acc. (Som. Rec. Soc.) 117 Payd for Sint Sunday xijs ix{supd}. 1530 Test. Ebor. (Surtees) V. 299, I gyff a hyeff of beis to keip the lyght afore Seynt Sonday and Seynt Erasmus. 1532 in Weaver Wells Wills (1890) 70 Our lady a shepe and a kyrtell..St. Katerine a shepe—S. Antony iiij{supd}—Saint Sonday iiij{supd}. 1539 Will T. Milnay, of Doncaster, To be buried in the church of St. George in Doncaster afor Sanct Sonday. 1842 Faber Styrian Lake 168 Far to the right St. Sunday's quiet shade Stoops o'er the dell where Grisedale Tarn is laid.

  3. attrib. and Comb. = Of or pertaining to, taking place on or characteristic of Sunday, as Sunday audience, Sunday book, Sunday chime, Sunday concert, Sunday dinner, Sunday drink, Sunday evening, Sunday excursion, Sunday face (also Sunday-faced adj.), Sunday morn(ing), Sunday paper, Sunday pastime, Sunday sabbath, Sunday trading, Sunday train, Sunday travelling; worn on Sunday (also occasionally with possessive Sunday's), as Sunday beaver, Sunday clothes, Sunday coat, Sunday garb, Sunday garment, Sunday hat, Sunday suit; carrying out an activity only on Sundays or for pleasure (on the analogy of Sunday driver, Sunday painter), as Sunday architect, Sunday artist, Sunday golfer, Sunday novelist, Sunday poet, Sunday sailor; objective, as Sunday-breaker; also Sunday-like, Sunday-seeming adjs.; Sunday best, one's best attire, worn on Sunday; also Sunday's best and transf. and attrib.; Sunday or Sunday's child [cf. MLG. sundageskint, G. sonntagskind], a child born on Sunday, hence, one (according to popular belief) greatly blessed or favoured (so † Sunday's daughter); † Sunday citizen, a citizen in Sunday clothes; Sunday closing, the closing on Sundays of shops, except for the sale of certain commodities, or of public houses, etc.; Sunday driver, one who drives chiefly at week-ends, freq. an unpractised, slow, or unskilful driver; Sunday face, (orig. Sc.) a sanctimonious expression; also (Irish) a festive countenance; Sunday-going adj., (of clothing, etc.) that one goes out in on Sunday; Sunday joint, a roasted joint of meat traditionally served for Sunday lunch; Sunday letter, the dominical letter; Sunday lunch, the traditional large meal served at midday on Sunday; Sunday man, one who goes out only on Sunday; Sunday observance, the keeping of Sunday as a day of rest and worship; Sunday painter, an amateur painter, one who paints purely for pleasure; often applied to a naïve painter (naïve a. 1 c), esp. Henri Rousseau; Sunday punch U.S. slang, a knock-out blow (of the fist); also transf.; Sunday salt: see quot. 1808; Sunday supplement, an illustrated section issued with a Sunday newspaper, sometimes characterized by the portrayal of voguish living. See also Sunday-school.

1783 R. Raikes Let. 25 Nov. in Gentl. Mag. (1784) LIV. i. 411/1 Upon the *Sunday afternoon, the mistresses take their scholars to church.

1978 Listener 6 Apr. 439/1 A small temple of individualism..by a *Sunday architect.

1978 Times 12 Apr. 16/5 Those who think the Berlin Wall was built..for *Sunday artists to exhibit their wares on.

1856 N. Brit. Rev. XXVI. 30 The preacher should abstain from addressing to a promiscuous *Sunday audience the themes of abstract science.

1840 Hood An Open Question iii, The beaver..So different from other *Sunday beavers!

1794 *Sunday's best [see best a. 8 d]. [1844 G. E. Jewsbury Let. 17 Sept. (1892) 143 So, on the whole, you may set it down as one of the best good deeds you ever did—quite a ‘Sunday best.’] 1846 Amulet 12 Some urchins, dressed out ‘in their Sunday's best’, all neatly clean. 1846 Godey's Mag. July 8/2 Like most of the nobility he dresses with the utmost plainness, hardly above the substantial Yankee ‘squire’ in his Sunday best. 1849 N. P. Willis Rural Lett. iii. 325 It was that kind of Sabbath weather in which Nature seems dressed and resting—every tree looking its ‘Sunday best’. 1859 [see best a. 8 d]. 1866 Mrs. Gaskell Wives & Dau. xlv, Mrs. Gibson was off, all in her Sunday best (to use the servant's expression). 1969 R. Blythe Akenfield ii. 59 Sunday-best suits.

1811 L. M. Hawkins C'tess & Gertr. xxvii. II. 86, I tell you I have a *Sunday-book; that which at present occupies with me the chief place next the Scriptures, is Klopstock's Messiah. 1855 Amy Carlton 89 ‘Miss Jones will..give out the Sunday books’..a number of histories of good people, Bible stories, parables, allegories, and other books of the same sort.

1885 Manch. Exam. 6 July 5/4 He let the fashionable *Sunday-breakers have a piece of his mind.

1886 C. M. Yonge Chantry House I. i. 8 He was punished for ‘telling fibs’, though the housemaid used to speak..of his being a ‘*Sunday child’. 1888 E. D. Gerard Land beyond Forest xxix. II. 41 Sunday children are lucky, and can discover hidden treasures. ― Popular Rime, Sunday's child is full of grace.

1818 Scott Hrt. Midl. xxxi, The parish church,..from which at present was heard the *Sunday chime of bells.

1596 Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, iii. i. 261 Leaue..such protest..To Veluet-Guards, and *Sunday-Citizens.

1850 Punch 31 Aug. 92/2 The *Sunday closing of the country Post was considered no other than an unmeaning rant of a party. 1863 Punch 28 Mar. 130 (caption) Probable effect of Mr. Somes's Sunday Closing Bill. 1881 Act 44 & 45 Vict. c. 61 s. 5 This Act may be cited as the Sunday Closing (Wales) Act, 1881. 1932 U. Sinclair Candid Remin. ii. ix. 60 He would join the church, sign pledges, vote for Sunday closing. 1971 Reader's Digest Family Guide to Law 660/2 Some areas—parts of Wales and Monmouthshire—have Sunday closing [of public houses] by law.

1642 H. More Song of Soul i. i. 20 Such as their Phyllis would, when as she plains Their *Sunday-cloths. a 1774 Fergusson Hallow-fair iii. Poems 1789 II. 26 Country John in bannet blue, An' eke his Sunday's claes on. 1779 Warner in Jesse Selwyn & Contemp. (1844) IV. 311 The clod-pated yeoman's son in his Sunday clothes. 1831 Carlyle Sart. Res. iii. ii, The mere haberdasher Sunday Clothes that men go to Church in.

17.. Song, ‘There's nae luck about the house’ iii, Gie..Jock his *Sunday coat. 1779 Mirror No. 25 ¶7 One of the best-looking plow-boys had a yellow cape clapped to his Sunday's coat to make him pass for a servant in livery. 1818 Scott Hrt. Midl. xlii, His best light-blue Sunday's coat, with broad metal-buttons.

? a 1150–1259 in Gest. Abb. S. Albani (Rolls) I. 99 Cœpit flere præ gaudio; ita dicens,—‘Lætare mecum,’ ait sermone vulgari,—‘Myn gode *Sonendayes doȝhter.’

1670 Eachard Cont. Clergy 110 There is great danger, not only of losing his *sunday-dinner, but [etc.].

1819 Keats Otho ii. i, Serv'd with harsh food, with scum for *Sunday-drink.

1925 New Yorker 11 July 11/1 The Sunday painter is to the art-artist what the *Sunday driver is to the owner of the Hispano or Rolls-Royce. 1942 Sun (Baltimore) 26 Jan. 18/3 Sunday drivers and sightseers accounted for more than seventy per cent of the total number of cars passing along the Eastern avenue road. 1975 L. Deighton Yesterday's Spy xx. 161 The Sunday drivers creeping along the promenade.

1817 Lady Morgan France iii. (1818) I. 303 *Sunday evening assemblies.

1825 T. Hook Sayings Ser. ii. Passion & Princ. xiv. III. 338 A *Sunday excursion to Richmond in a steam-boat.

1756 M. Calderwood in Coltness Collect. (Maitl. Cl.) 147 You would take them for so many seceders, they put on such a *Sunday face, and walk as if they would not look up. a 1779 D. Graham Writings (1883) II. 51 Put on a Sunday's face, and sign as ye were a saint. 1786 Burns What ails ye Now in Poems ascribed to R. Burns (1801) 29 Wi' pinch I put a Sunday's face on, An' snoov'd awa' before the Session. 1906 E. Dyson Fact'ry 'Ands xiii. 165 His Trowsis had er slitherin' chin, 'n' ther Sunday face iv er sick sheep. 1910 T. S. Eliot in Harvard Advocate 26 Jan. 114 Sunday: this satisfied procession Of definite Sunday faces.

1934 Dylan Thomas 18 Poems 25 For, *sunday faced, with dusters in my glove, Chaste and the chaser, man with the cockshut eye.

1852 E. W. Benson in Life (1899) I. iii. 110, I have all the while I am there a perfect *Sunday-feel.

1822 Galt Provost xxxii, The town-officers in their *Sunday garbs.

1679 Coles Eng.-Lat. Dict. (ed. 2) s.v., A *Sunday's Garment, Vestis festa. 1846 Keble Lyra Innoc. iv. Fine Clothes v, The Sunday garment glittering gay.

1840 P. Parley's Ann. I. 270 A band-box containing Miss Mainwaring's *Sunday-going bonnet.

1928 J. Buchan Runagates Club xii. 319 His clothes..were workman-like, and looked as if they belonged to him—no more the uneasy knickerbockers of the *Sunday golfer.

c 1921 D. H. Lawrence Mr. Noon in Mod. Lover (1934) 172 They were socialists and vegetarians... None of the horrors of *Sunday joints. 1980 ‘M. Hebden’ Pel under Pressure v. 47 He was lying on the floor, trussed up like a Sunday joint.

1430 in Halliwell Rara Mathem. (1841) 91 Þen schal E be ȝour *sonday letter to þe ȝerus ynde. 1698 Phil. Trans. XX. 187 B, the Sunday Letter for this Year.

1834 Tracts for Times No. 22. 5 The morning is so lovely, so *Sunday-like.

1840 Florist's Jrnl. (1846) I. 99 This was perhaps no great loss to the majority of the *Sunday loungers.

1932 E. M. Delafield Thank Heaven Fasting iii. ii. 263 Mr. Pelham was sleeping, after *Sunday lunch. 1973 ‘M. Underwood’ Reward for Defector viii. 63 They sat down to roast lamb, roast potatoes, cauliflower with a cheese sauce and brussel sprouts... ‘Mrs Tidmarsh enjoys cooking a proper Sunday lunch.’

1785 Grose Dict. Vulgar T., *Sunday man, one who goes abroad on that day only, for fear of arrests. 1819 F. MacDonogh Hermit in Lond. (1820) IV. 120 These hebdomadal loungers are what are called Sunday men.

1786 Burns Holy Fair i, Upon a simmer *Sunday morn.

1629 Wadsworth Pilgr. iii. 18 On *Sunday morning at six of the clocke they hye to their studies. 1841 A. Dallas Past. Superintendence iii. i. 431 The Sunday morning congregation consisting of about three hundred persons.

1821 Acc. Peculations in Coal Trade 18 The daily or *Sunday newspapers.

1788 Wolcot (P. Pindar) Bro. Peter to Bro. Tom x, Who..Made up a concert every *Sunday night.

1598 Bp. Hall Sat. iv. ii, Byes he rost for *sunday-noone.

1960 News Chron. 9 Mar. 6 Mr. Bratby may be a professional painter, but he is a *Sunday novelist.

[1785: see observance 1 a.] 1857 Punch 4 July 4/2 Having put down the Sabbatarians and secured rational liberty to the millions in respect to *Sunday observance. 1973 J. Wainwright High-Class Kill 209 Pornographic literature—and blue films—and illegal gambling—and anything else the Sunday Observance crowd can think up.

1925 *Sunday painter [see Sunday driver above]. 1948 R. O. Dunlop Understanding Pictures iv. 26 Chief of these ‘Sunday’ painters was the Douanier Rousseau—so-called because he was for long a customs official. 1961 M. Leake tr. Bouret's Henri Rousseau 170 After the publication of this text [sc. R. Grey's Henri Rousseau] in 1922, the label ‘Sunday-painters’ became attached to the naïf and primitive painters and to the popular realist masters, and still survives. 1980 B. Bainbridge Winter Garden xii. 88 He gathered there were few actual artists in the room. A General was pointed out to him and an Admiral, both retired. He supposed they were Sunday painters, rather like Churchill and Roosevelt.

1812 Byron Let. to Ld. Holland 14 Oct., I have seen no paper but Perry's, and two *Sunday ones. 1848 Thackeray Van. Fair liv, He would by no means permit the introduction of Sunday papers into his household.

1874 Green Short Hist. viii. §4. 495 The Parliament..had forbidden *Sunday pastimes by statute.

1979 M. McCarthy Cannibals & Missionaries iii. 73 The Senator..calls himself a ‘*Sunday poet’, so he doesn't publish.

1929 D. Runyon in Cosmopolitan Oct. 64/1 If you argue with Dave the Dude too much he is apt to reach over and lay his *Sunday punch on your snoot. 1944 W. W. Elton et al. Guide Naval Aviation iv. 71 The real ‘Sunday punch’ of naval aviation is the torpedo bomber. 1979 E. Newman (title) Sunday punch.

1645 E. Pagitt Heresiogr. (1661) 189 The keeping of *Sunday-sabbath as strictly as the Jews.

1973 H. Nielsen Severed Key iii. 27 As the day cleared, a few hardy *Sunday sailors took out their boats.

1756 F. Home Exper. Bleaching 238 A particular kind..only made on Sunday; and therefore called *Sunday-salt, or great salt, from the largeness of its grains. 1808 Holland View Agric. Chesh. i. 55 The large grained flaky salt..made by slackening the fires betwixt Saturday and Monday, and allowing the crystallization to proceed more slowly on the intermediate day..has got the name of Sunday salt.

1786 Burns Holy Fair vi, I'll get my *Sunday's sark on.

1821 Clare Vill. Minstr. I. 175 A *Sunday scene looks brighter to the eye.

1850 Clough Dipsychus ii. vi. 69 Good books, good friends..That lent rough life sweet *Sunday-seeming rests.

1738 *Sunday's suit [see suit n. 19 b]. 1830 in M. R. Mitford Stories Amer. Life I. 280 Sampson stood, in his Sunday suit, showing with his teeth an air of joyous satisfaction. 1888 Rider Haggard Col. Quaritch xxxiv, Arrayed in his pepper-and-salt Sunday suit.

1574–5 G. Harvey Story of Mercy Harvey Wks. (Grosart) III. 75 A *Sundaie supper at Mr. S.

1905 E. Wharton House of Mirth ii. ix. 429 The photographer whose portraits of her formed the recurring ornament of ‘*Sunday Supplements’. 1913 [see rinky-dink a.]. 1958 J. Blish Case of Conscience i. iii. 36 Stop sounding like a Sunday supplement. You underestimate your own intelligence. 1979 M. Tabor Baker's Daughter i. 13 A basement in a Sunday supplement conversion.

1856 Brit. Alm. & Comp. 228 [July 2 1855] Lord Grosvenor..withdraws his *Sunday-Trading Bill in the House of Commons.

1883 R. Broughton Belinda III. 122 The *Sunday trains are so awkward that I cannot get on till late in the afternoon.

c 1815 Jane Austen Persuasion xvii, She saw..that *Sunday-travelling had been a common thing.

  Hence (chiefly colloq.) Sunday v. intr. (U.S.), to spend Sunday; Sundayed (ˈsʌndeɪd, -dɪd) ˈSundayfied adjs. [cf. Frenchified, etc.], appropriate to Sunday, in Sunday clothes; ˈSundayish a., somewhat like, or like that of, Sunday; ˈSundayism, practice or conduct characteristic of the observance of Sunday; † ˈSundayly adv., every Sunday.

1884 Lisbon (Dakota) Clipper 13 Mar., H. R. Turner *Sundayed in Fargo.

1884 My Ducats & My Daughter III. xxiv. 53 Dick had assumed a tight-fitting suit of glossy black, which gave him the aspect of a *Sunday'd butcher.

1870 Bazar Bk. Decorum 164 We are apt to be, as the French say, endimanchés, which we may translate by the coined word *Sundayfied. 1899 C. G. Harper Exeter Road 123 A village..of a Sundayfied stillness.

1797 R. Gurney in A. J. C. Hare Gurneys of Earlham (1895) I. 70 [The day] was flat, stupid, unimproving, and *Sundayish. 1911 W. W. Jacobs Ship's Company 1 Mr. Jobson awoke with a Sundayish feeling, probably due to the fact that it was Bank Holiday.

1850 T. M{supc}Crie Mem. Sir H. Agnew ix. 239 Their own genial and jaunty *Sundayism.

1479–81 Rec. St. Mary at Hill 110 Item, payd *sondayly to iij poore almysmen to pray,..&c.

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