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Definition of Easter day
1. Noun. The day (in March or April) on which the festival of Easter is celebrated.
Definition of Easter day
1. Proper noun. Easter Sunday, Easter. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Easter Day
Literary usage of Easter day
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord by Joseph Whitaker (1869)
"It is the 22nd after Trinity when easter day is on April ц or 25. If tbe date of
Easter were determined as proposed (see Fixed Easter), ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1818)
"~L> Y the definition given in the Tables and Rules prefixed to the -*-* ' Book
of Common Prayer,' ' Easter-day is always the tirst Sunday after the full ..."
3. Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Chiefly by John Brand, Henry Ellis (1895)
"... if we say that the sun doth not dance on easter day : and though we would [THE
day before easter day is m som/parts called " Holy Saturday. ..."
4. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities: Being a Continuation of the by Samuel Cheetham (1880)
"... falls on Sunday, easter day is the Sunday after ; and Cyril states distinctly
that Easter may fall on any of the 35 days from March 22 to April 25, ..."
5. History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century by William Randolph Hearst (1851)
"It was once a popular belief, and a very pretty one, that the sun danced on
Easter-day. Suckling alludes to it in his famous ballad:— " Her feet beneath her ..."
6. The Old and New Testament Connected, in the History of the Jews and by Humphrey Prideaux (1836)
"I. The words of the rule in the calendar, as they lie in the page next after the
months of the year, are these following:—"easter day is always the first ..."
7. The Book of Easter by William Croswell Doane (1910)
"JOHN MASON NEALE Ye Happy Bells of easter day *o \7E happy bells of easter day!
... Ye carol bells of easter day! The teeming earth, That saw His birth When ..."
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