ˌSabbath-ˈday
Forms: (see Sabbath).
1. a. = Sabbath 1 a.
| a 1300–1400 Cursor M. 17355 (Laud) After that sabot-day was gon Thedir come they euery-chon. c 1380 Wyclif Wks. (1880) 58 He helid a sik man vpon þe sabaat day. 1432–50 tr. Higden (Rolls) IV. 327 Whiche peple keped theire Sabbatte day [orig. Sabbatum], and hade hyt in so grete veneracion, that thei wolde not ordeyne meyte þat day. 1534 More Treat. Passion Wks. 1308/1 So do..their sabbot dayes begynne in the euenyng, and endure to the euenynge folowynge. 1562 Cooper Answ. Def. Truth ix. 75 By necessitie of their enemies constreined they [sc. the Jews]..fought on the Sabboth day. c 1610 Women Saints 156 He..with the Iewes kept the Saboth day,..yet refused Circumcision. 1709 J. Johnson Clergym. Vade M. ii. 104 Christians must not Judaize and rest on the Sabbath-day; but work on that very day; and give the preference to the Lord's day. 1726 J. Henley Prim. Liturgy 10 Feasts, are all Lords-days, all Sabbath-days, or Saturdays [etc.]. |
b. Sabbath day's journey: the distance (2,000 ammōth or ‘ells’ = 1225 yards) which (according to Rabbinical prescription in the time of Christ) was the utmost limit of permitted travel on the Sabbath.
| 1526 Tindale Acts i. 12 Mount olivete which is neye to Jerusalem..conteynynge a saboth dayes iorney. 1628 Earle Microcosm., Shee Precise Hypocr. (Arb.) 63 Her oftest Gossipings are Sabaoth-dayes iourneyes. |
2. = Sabbath 1 b.
The first two quots. may perhaps not be rightly placed here, as it was the common view that the commandment ‘to keep holy the Sabbath-day’, in its Christian interpretation, related to the festivals of the Church in general, and not to Sunday only or eminently.
| c 1440 Gesta Rom. x. 30 (Harl. MS.) Hope we hit is our lord ihesu crist, þe which hath ordeyned for lawe, þat ech man shold kepe þe saboth day. 1513 Bradshaw St. Werburge ii. 879 A woman which brake the commaundement Of god and holy churche hye sabbot-day dyd violate Vnlaufully wurkynge. 1575 Laneham Let. (1871) 12 On sunday: the forenoon occupied (az for the Sabot day) in quiet and vacation from woork, & in diuine seruis. 1605 Vestry Bks. (Surtees) 284 There shall be no meetinge as concerning any business about upon the Sabbath day. 1651 St. Andrews, Newcastle-on-Tyne Par. Reg. in N. & Q. 8th Ser. I. 223 Robard Fenwick..which was drowned in the Bares myll dam wher he went to swim on the Saboth day. 1715 De Foe Fam. Instruct. i. iii. (1841) I. 63 As soon as they come home next Sabbath-day from the sermon. 1810 Wordsw. Prose Wks. (1876) II. 33 The sensations of pious cheerfulness, which attend the celebration of the sabbath-day in rural places. 1830–2 Carleton Traits Irish Peasantry (1860) I. 146 (Priest) On the Sabbath day too, without my leave! |
3. = Sabbath 1 c.
| 1704 J. Pitts Acc. Mohammetans 42 The Hattech, i.e. a Priest which is above the Emaum, officiates on their Sabbath-day. |
4. gen. A Sabbath, day of sacred rest.
| 1755 Pope Prol. Sat. 12 No place is sacred, not the Church is free; Ev'n Sunday shines no Sabbath-day to me. |