holy tide, holy-tide
A holy time or season; a day or season of religious observance.
| a 1035 Laws of Cnut i. c. 17 §2 (Schmid) And beo þam halᵹum tidum, eal swa hit riht is. c 1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 3 Ðe holie tid þat me clepeð aduent. a 1300 Cursor M. 27210 In halitide or fastim dai. 1613 R. Corbet Journ. France iii. Poems (1672) 129 Much like John Dory in the song, Upon a holy tide. 1810 Scott Lady of L. vi. iii, And now, by holytide and feast, From rules of discipline released. |
| attrib. 1828 Scott F.M. Perth ii, Now lay by thy work, lass, for it is holytide eve, and it becomes us to go to the evening service. |