ˈhebdomary
Also ebd-.
A shortened form of hebdomadary n.
| c 1450 Rules St. Saviour & St. Bridget xlvi. in Aungier Syon Monast., etc. (1840) 362 The ebdomary is bounde..to absteyn thynges that wyke that myght lette her to performe her office. 1706 Phillips (ed. Kersey), Ebdomadarius..the Ebdomary or Weeks-man, an Officer in Cathedral Churches. 1879 E. Waterton Pietas Mariana 260 The hebdomary, i.e., the canon of the week, who sang the daily High Mass. |