ˈRood day Now only Hist.
[rood n. 2.]
a. The Exaltation of the Cross (14 September). b. The Invention of the Cross (3 May). The earlier use is Holy Rood day in both senses.
| a 1225 Ancr. R. 20 Þis winter schal biginnen ette holi rode dei ine heruest. 1297 R. Glouc. (Rolls) 1932 Þe biginingge of may, As ȝe abbeþ ofte yhurd þe holi rode day. c 1380 Wyclif Sel. Wks. I. 392 On Hooli roode Day. 1486 Bk. St. Albans E v, Tyme of grece begynnyth at mydsomer day And tyll holi Roode day lastyth. 1523 Fitzherb. Husb. §134 At any tyme between Martilmas and holyrode⁓day. 1596 Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, i. i. 52 On Holy-roode day. 1613 Selden Illustr. Drayton's Poly-olb. D.'s Wks. 1726 III. 1792 For the invention she is yet celebrated in holyrood day in May. 1641 Art. Agreement in Harl. Misc. (1811) VII. 216 That there shall be a league offensive and defensive, concluded and conformed by both parties, at or before Holyrood-day next. 1731 Gentl. Mag. (1732) 402 Sept. 14. Being Holy Rood Day, the King's Huntsmen hunted their Free Buck in Richmond new Park. |
| 1520 Extr. Rec. Stirling (1887) 4 To be pait on the morne eftir the Rud day. 1597 Return fr. Parnass. ii. i 739 And a drye cowe shall be 7 years oulde at the nexte roode daye. 1688 Holme Armoury iii. 187/2 The Dominican Monks..Fast seven Months together from Rood Day in September to Easter. 1711 Extr. Rec. Aberdeen (1872) 344 The citizens to be advertised to enter ther children..at Roodday and Lambas. a 1779 D. Graham Hist. Buck-haven in Writ. 1883 II. 235 Upon the Rood day..early in the morning. 1825 Jamieson Suppl. s.v., The 14th of September is still called Rude day in Lanarkshire... In Roxb. Rude-day is the 25th September, which corresponds with the 14th old style. 1841 R. T. Hampson Medii ævi Cal. I. 269 The day of the Invention of the Cross, and one of the Rode or Rood days. |