Word Meanings - SATURDAY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The seventh or last day of the week; the day following Friday and preceding Sunday. (more info) Sæternesdæg, literally, Saturn's day, fr. L. Saturnus Saturn + AS.

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• SATURNISM
  Plumbum. Quain.
• FOLLOWING EDGE
  See ABOVE
• SUNDAY
  The first day of the week, -- consecrated among Christians to rest from secular employments, and to religious worship; the Christian Sabbath; the Lord's Day. Advent Sunday, Low Sunday, Passion Sunday, etc. See under Advent, Low, etc. Syn. -- See
• PRECEDENTLY
  Beforehand; antecedently.
• LITERALLY
  1. According to the primary and natural import of words; not figuratively; as, a man and his wife can not be literally one flesh. 2. With close adherence to words; word by word. So wild and ungovernable a poet can not be translated literally.
• SATURNALIA
  the festival of Saturn, celebrated in December, originally during one day, but afterward during seven days, as a period of unrestrained license and merriment for all classes, extending even to the slaves. 2. Hence: A period or occasion of general
• PRECEDENTED
  Having a precedent; authorized or sanctioned by an example of a like kind. Walpole.
• PRECEDE
  1. To go before in order of time; to occur first with relation to anything. "Harm precedes not sin." Milton. 2. To go before in place, rank, or importance. 3. To cause to be preceded; to preface; to introduce; -- used with by or with before the
• SATURN
  One of the elder and principal deities, the son of Coelus and Terra , anf the father of Jupiter. The corresponding Greek divinity was Kro`nos, later CHro`nos, Time.
• PRECEDENCE; PRECEDENCY
  1. The act or state of preceding or going before in order of time; priority; as, one event has precedence of another. 2. The act or state of going or being before in rank or dignity, or the place of honor; right to a more honorable place; superior
• SATURNALIAN
  1. Of or pertaining to the Saturnalia. 2. Of unrestrained and intemperate jollity; riotously merry; dissolute. "Saturnalian amusement." Burke.
• FOLLOWING
  1. One's followers, adherents, or dependents, collectively. Macaulay. 2. Vocation; business; profession.
• FOLLOWING SURFACE
  See ABOVE
• SEVENTHLY
  In the seventh place.
• FRIDAY
  The sixth day of the week, following Thursday and preceding Saturday. (more info) friqu love + dæg day; cf. Icel. Frigg name of a goddess, the wife of Odin or Wodan, OHG. Friatag, Isel. Frjadagr. AS. frigu is prob. from
• SATURNIAN
  Of or pertaining to Saturn, whose age or reign, from the mildness and wisdom of his government, is called the golden age. 2. Hence: Resembling the golden age; distinguished for peacefulness, happiness, contentment. Augustus, born to bring Saturnian
• PRECEDENTIAL
  Of the nature of a precedent; having force as an example for imitation; as, precedential transactions. All their actions in that time are not precedential to warrant posterity. Fuller.
• SATURNINE
  Of or pertaining to lead; characterized by, or resembling, lead, which was formerly called Saturn. Saturnine colic , lead colic. (more info) Saturn: cf. F. saturnin of or pertaining to lead (Saturn, in old 1. Born under, or influenced by, the
• SATURNIST
  A person of a dull, grave, gloomy temperament. W. browne.
• PRECEDING
  In the direction toward which stars appear to move. See Following, 2. (more info) 1. Going before; -- opposed to following.
• BLACK FRIDAY
  Any Friday on which a public disaster has occurred, as: In England, December 6, 1745, when the news of the landing of the Pretender reached London, or May 11, 1866, when a financial panic commenced. In the United States, September 24, 1869, and
• PALM SUNDAY
  The Sunday next before Easter; -- so called in commemoration of our Savior's triumphal entry into Jerusalem, when the multitude strewed palm branches in the way.
• LAETERE SUNDAY
  . The fourth Sunday of Lent; -- so named from the Latin word Lætare , the first word in the antiphone of the introit sung that day in the Roman Catholic service.