† ˈGang-week Obs.
[OE. gangwuce, f. gang n.1 + wuce week; cf. G. gangwoche, Sw. gång-vecka, ON. gangdaga-vika.]
Rogation week, in which the gang-days fell.
| c 1000 Ags. Gosp. Mark xvi. 14 margin, Ðis sceal on þunres dæᵹ innan þære gang-wucan. 1530 Palsgr. 809 In the gange weke, la sepmaine des rouuaysons. 1553 tr. Beza's Admon. Parlt. (1566) D b, In the gang weke, when banners and belles..rangeth aboute in many places. a 1571 Jewel On 2 Thess. (1611) 129 They haue vsed in Rome, in their generall processions in gang week to goe to these seuen hils. 1607 Schol. Disc. agst. Antichr. ii. vi. 76 What meaneth else their decking of crosses in gang-weeke? 1656 Blount Glossogr. s.v. Rogation week, In the North of England it is called Gang week from the Ganging, or going on procession [etc.]. 1730–6 in Bailey (folio); and in later Dicts. |