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Definition of Daysman
1. n. An umpire or arbiter; a mediator.
Definition of Daysman
1. Noun. (archaic) An arbiter, referee, mediator. ¹
2. Noun. A labourer who works during the day. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Daysman
1. an arbiter [n DAYSMEN] - See also: arbiter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Daysman
Literary usage of Daysman
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People by Ephraim Chambers (1870)
"A daysman was thus a judge appointed to decide between parties at a judicial
hearing. The word occurs in Scripture, where Job sorrowfully says, in reference ..."
2. Christian Thought by Charles Force Deems, John Bancroft Devins, Amory Howe Bradford (1889)
"That a difference of interpretation exists as to whom the personal pronoun first
used is to be referred,—the daysman or God. Is it, Let Him (the daysman) ..."
3. The Book of Job by Robert Alexander Watson (1892)
"X. 1 THE THOUGHT OF A daysman. •\*^ JOB SPEAKS. CHAPS, ix., x. . ~^f~^ FT is with
an infinitely sad restatement of what God * ^-=t- has been made to appear ..."
4. God and Bread with Other Sermons by Marvin Richardson Vincent (1884)
"THE daysman. " For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we
should come together in judgment. " Neither is there any daysman betwixt ..."
5. The veil lifted from Israel; what Israel ought to do; and hymns and Hebrew by Thomas Kirwan De Verdon (1876)
"THE daysman. SAVIOUR Divine, our daysman be: Our hand in faith we lay on Thee;
We cannot, will not let Thee go, Till a blessing Thou bestow. ..."
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