name-day
(ˈneɪmdeɪ)
Also name's-day.
[f. name n. + day; in sense 1, after Du. naamdag, Da. navndag, or G. namenstag, Sw. namnsdag.]
1. The day sacred to the saint whose name one bears. (Used chiefly with reference to continental sovereigns.)
| α 1721 Lond. Gaz. No. 5980/2 Yesterday being the King of Sweden's Name-Day. 1777 Robertson Hist. Amer. II. 433 Presents made to him on the anniversary of his Name-day (which is always observed as an high festival). 1812 Ld. Cathcart in Examiner 12 Oct. 649/1 The accounts of the battle..reached the Emperor early on the morning of his name-day. 1865 Pall Mall G. 21 Sept. 9/1 Several promotions..were made at St. Petersburg on the occasion of the Emperor's name-day. |
| β 1799 W. Tooke View Russian Emp. I. 372 No one neglects to keep his birth and name's day, and those of his family. 1842 Motley Corr. (1889) I. iv. 98 The day of the Emperor's fête (or day distinguished..as the name's-day of the Czar..). 1881 Scribner's Mag. Oct. 886/1 On the 5th of December, the name's-day of the Empress. |
2. The day on which a child is named.
| 1880 Muirhead Ulpian xv. §2 note, The name-day was the ninth for boys and the eighth for girls. |
3. Stock Exchange. The day on which the seller of registered securities receives from the buyer a ticket with the name and details of the person to whom the securities are to be transferred.
| 1885 P. Campbell Stock Exchange 25 The second [account day] is called ‘Name or Ticket Day’, devoted by Brokers and Jobbers to concluding Investment operations by completing and delivering transfers. 1895 A. J. Wilson Gloss. Colloq. Terms Stock Exchange 170 Each settlement occupies three days—1st, ‘contango day’..; 2nd, ‘name day’, when the names of buyers of registered securities are passed to the sellers; and 3rd, ‘pay day’. 1907 [see name n. 1 c]. 1941 Dice & Eiteman Stock Market (ed. 2) x. 155 The second day of settlement is called ‘ticket day’ or ‘name day.’ On this day a broker who wishes delivery on stock that he has bought sends a ticket to his jobber, giving the name of the security. 1970 M. Greener Penguin Dict. Commerce 325 Ticket day..is also sometimes called name day. |