First-day
The name given (chiefly by members of the Society of Friends) to Sunday, as being the first day of the week.
| a 1690 G. Fox Jrnl. (1694) I. 168 Upon the first-day after, I was moved to go to Aldenham steeple-house. a 1713 T. Ellwood Autobiog. (1765) 101 One First day in four there was a more general Meeting. 1843 Whittier First Day in Lowell Prose Wks. 1889 I. 369 One must be here of a pleasant First day at the close of what is called the ‘afternoon service’. |
| attrib. 1773 Hist. Brit. Dom. N. Amer. ii. iv. 278 First-day Baptists, whose weekly holiday is the Sunday. 1872 Whittier Penn. Pilgrim 385 Fair First-Day mornings. |