▪ I. utas1 Now Hist.
(ˈjuːtæs)
Also 5 vtaus, vtauce, vtase (Sc. wtast, wtes), 5–7 vtas (7 outas), 6 utais, 7 vtis.
[Reduced form of the pl. utaves: see octave n.]
a. = octave n. 1 a. b. = octave n. 1 b.
| 1387, c 1420 [see octave n. 1]. c 1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode iii. xx. (1869) 146, I selle it by dayes, and bi wookes, bi vtases and bi quinsimes, bi monethes, and bi yeeres. 1463–93 [see octave n. 1]. 1563 Becon Reliques 175 b, For..euery day of the Vtas an hundred days of pardon in remission of al their sinnes. 1599, 1610 [see octave n. 1]. 1657 Sparrow Bk. Comm. Prayer 178 It was the custome of our fore-fathers to observe the Octave or Vtas of their high and principall Feasts. 1672 Manley Cowell's Interpr., Utas,..is the eighth day following any Term or Feast,..and any day between the Feast and the Octave, is said to be within the utas. 1701 Hody Hist. Councils 368 The Octaves or..the Utas of S. Martin. 1762 Gentl. Mag. 567 These Octaves or Uta's [sic], as they are often called. 1810 Stat. Realm I. 390/1 This present Parliament holden..at the Utas of the Holy Trinity [1369]. 1833 Nicolas Chronol. Hist. (1838) 102 The Octave or Utas of each Feast..is always the seventh day after it occurs; or the eighth day, if the day of the Festival be included. |
| attrib. 1453 Paston Lett. I. 257 Wretyn at Norwych, on the Utas day of Peter and Powll. |
c. transf. A period of festivity; = octave 1 c.
| 1597–1602 [see octave 1 c]. |
▪ II. ˈutas2
Also 9 dial. utis.
[Later var. outas.]
† 1. = outas. Obs.—1
| 1600 Holland Livy 134 The Romanes were in dread of your utas and outcries. |
2. dial. Clamour, din.
| 1875 A. Porson Quaint Words 26 The hounds were here this marning and kicked up a deuce of a utis. 1910 19th Cent. May 901 She complains of a utis after the village club-feast or merrymaking—a loud, riotous noise. |