Ashwednesday

English

Noun

Ashwednesday (plural Ashwednesdays)

1. (now rare) Alternative spelling of Ash Wednesday
   • 1590, John Stow, A Svmmarie of the Chronicles of England, from the Firſt arriuing of Brute in this Iſland, vnto this preſent yeere of Chriſt, 1590‎^[1]:

     […] ſo that the ſame law day after Aſhwedneſday cannot be kept, becauſe the law day of the other feaſt doth light on the ſame day: then the ſecond law day after Aſhwedneſday ſhalbe kept, and the other omitted.

   • 1641, Francis Rous, chapter XII, in Catholick Charitie, John Bartlet, pages 351-352:

     Rather ſpeake of ſenſe and appetite when you ſee a Papiſt in his fat dayes, before Aſhwedneſday , to make worke for the Prieſt, […]

   • 1997, Henry Prescott, edited by John Addy, John Harrop, and Peter McNiven, The Diary of Henry Prescott, LL.B., Deputy Registrar of Chester Diocese, volume III, Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, page 911:

     [1695 February] 6 Ashwednesday, a fine frosty morning, walk, read the 24 Book de Finibus, &c.