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MICHAELMAS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Honoring the archangel Michael; a quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland
Synonyms:
Michaelmas; Michaelmas Day; September 29
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("Michaelmas" is a kind of...):
quarter day (a Christian holy day; one of four specified days when certain payments are due)
Holonyms ("Michaelmas" is a part of...):
Sep; Sept; September (the month following August and preceding October)
Context examples:
Touching your question, we may tell you that we are strollers and jugglers, who, having performed with much applause at Winchester fair, are now on our way to the great Michaelmas market at Ringwood.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And at Michaelmas, perhaps, a fourth may be added: some small hunting-box in the vicinity of everything so dear; for as to any partnership in Thornton Lacey, as Edmund Bertram once good-humouredly proposed, I hope I foresee two objections: two fair, excellent, irresistible objections to that plan.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
THESE assured him that his exertion had produced an increase of good-will towards himself, and THESE gave Elinor hopes of its being farther augmented hereafter; but Mrs. Jennings, who knew nothing of all this, who knew only that the Colonel continued as grave as ever, and that she could neither prevail on him to make the offer himself, nor commission her to make it for him, began, at the end of two days, to think that, instead of Midsummer, they would not be married till Michaelmas, and by the end of a week that it would not be a match at all.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
The Crofts were to have possession at Michaelmas; and as Sir Walter proposed removing to Bath in the course of the preceding month, there was no time to be lost in making every dependent arrangement.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Mrs. Jennings's prophecies, though rather jumbled together, were chiefly fulfilled; for she was able to visit Edward and his wife in their Parsonage by Michaelmas, and she found in Elinor and her husband, as she really believed, one of the happiest couples in the world.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
