Definition of Michaelmas Day

1. Noun. Honoring the archangel Michael; a quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland.

Exact synonyms: Michaelmas, September 29
Generic synonyms: Quarter Day
Group relationships: Sep, Sept, September

Lexicographical Neighbors of Michaelmas Day

Michael Faraday
Michael Gerald Tyson
Michael Jackson
Michael Joe Jackson
Michael Ondaatje
Michael Philip Jagger
Michaela
Michaelis-Gutmann body
Michaelis-Menten constant
Michaelis-Menten equation
Michaelis-Menten hypothesis
Michaelis complex
Michaelis constant
Michaell
Michaelmas
Michaelmas Day (current term)
Michaelmas daisy
Michaelmastide
Michal
Michalis
Micheal
Micheas
Michel Eyquem Montaigne
Michel Levy scale of retardation colours
Michel Montaigne
Michel Ney
Michel de Notredame
Michelangelesque
Michelangelo
Michelangelo Buonarroti

Literary usage of Michaelmas Day

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer by Richard Burn (1820)
"Hiring the day after Michaelmas day to the Michaelmas day following gains a settlement. A hiring on October llth till Michaelmas following, is a hiring for ..."

2. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1905)
"678. the tenant for life died before sunset on Michaelmas day, and It was held that the ... Midsummer day, Michaelmas day, and Christmas day in every year, ..."

3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, George Mifflin Wharton (1845)
"And the pauper having given a month's previous notice to quit «I Old Michaelmas-day, which the mistress accepted, and procured another servant to come on ..."

4. A Treatise on the Law of Mortgages by John Joseph Powell, Thomas Coventry (1822)
"day named in the deed, or any Michaelmas day following, pay to the mortgagee, his heirs or assigns, the mortgage money and all arrears of interest which ..."

5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"A beginning was made in a hired house on Michaelmas Day, 1568. The means of support included, besides Allen's private income, and other voluntary donations, ..."

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