ˈdeath-day
Forms: see death n.; also 7 death's-.
1. The day on which a person dies.
| 735 Bæda Death-song, Huaet his gastae, godaes aeththa yflaes, aefter deothdaege doemid uueorthae. 1362 Langl. P. Pl. A. iii. 104 Hennes to þi deþ day do so no more. 1389 in Eng. Gilds 121 At þe ded day of a broþer, euery couple to ȝeuyn iij. penys. c 1450 St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 1540 My deed day comes at hand. a 1649 Drummond of Hawthornden Cypress Grove Wks. (1711) 124 The death-day of thy body is thy birth-day to eternity. 1882 J. Parker Apost. Life I. 15 Your death-day need not come upon you as a surprise. |
2. The anniversary of this day.
| 1639 Horn & Rob. Gate Lang. Unl. xcvii. §964 Keeping a deaths-day as well as a birth-day. 1817 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. XLIV. 234 The 7th of November was kept as a solemn anniverse by Lorenzo dei Medici..as the birth⁓day and death-day of Plato. 1855 Thackeray Newcomes II. 332 The death-day of the founder..is still kept. |