- ymbryne
- m (-es/-as) course of a moving body; course of time, revolution, period, circuit, course, anniversary; lapse of time
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Ember — Em ber, a. [OE. ymber, AS. ymbren, ymbryne, prop., running around, circuit; ymbe around + ryne a running, fr. rinnan to run. See {Amb }, and {Run}.] Making a circuit of the year of the seasons; recurring in each quarter of the year; as, ember… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Ember days — Ember Em ber, a. [OE. ymber, AS. ymbren, ymbryne, prop., running around, circuit; ymbe around + ryne a running, fr. rinnan to run. See {Amb }, and {Run}.] Making a circuit of the year of the seasons; recurring in each quarter of the year; as,… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
EmberDay — Em·ber Day (ĕmʹbər) n. A day reserved for prayer and fasting by some Christian churches, observed on the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday after the first Sunday of Lent, after Whitsunday, after September 14, and after December 13. [Middle… … Universalium
Ember day — any of the days in the quarterly three day period of prayer and fasting (the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday after the first Sunday in Lent, after Whitsunday, after Sept. 14, and after Dec. 13) observed in the Roman Catholic Church and other… … Universalium
Ember days — Four groups of three days in the Church calendar during which fasting was observed, i.e. Wednesday, Friday and Saturday following the first Sunday in Lent, *Pentecost, Holy Cross Day (14 September), St Lucy s Day (13 December). Ember Week was one … Dictionary of Medieval Terms and Phrases
ymbrene — see ymbryne … Old to modern English dictionary
ymbrine — see ymbryne … Old to modern English dictionary
ymryne — see ymbryne … Old to modern English dictionary
ember — [OE] Ember goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *aimuzjōn, although it is possible that the modern English word represents a borrowing from the related Old Norse eimyrja rather than a direct line of descent from Old English ǣmyrge. The ember of… … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
ember days — O.E. Ymbrendaeg, Ymbren, 12 days of the year (divided into four seasonal periods, hence Latin name quatuor tempora) set aside by the Church for fasting and prayers, from O.E. ymbren recurring, corruption of ymbryne a circuit, revolution, course,… … Etymology dictionary
