EASTER
\ˈiːstə], \ˈiːstə], \ˈiː_s_t_ə]\
Definitions of EASTER
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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An annual church festival commemorating Christ's resurrection, and occurring on Sunday, the second day after Good Friday. It corresponds to the pasha or passover of the Jews, and most nations still give it this name under the various forms of pascha, pasque, paque, or pask.
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The day on which the festival is observed; Easter day.
By Oddity Software
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An annual church festival commemorating Christ's resurrection, and occurring on Sunday, the second day after Good Friday. It corresponds to the pasha or passover of the Jews, and most nations still give it this name under the various forms of pascha, pasque, paque, or pask.
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The day on which the festival is observed; day.
By Noah Webster.
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A festival of the Christian Church to commemorate the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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Pertaining to that festival.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A Christian festival commemorating the resurrection of Christ, held on the Sunday after Good-Friday. Easter is the first Sunday after the full moon which happens upon or next after the 21st of March; and if the full moon happens upon a Sunday, Easter day is the Sunday after; but properly speaking, for the "full moon" in the above the "fourteenth day of the moon" should be substituted.
By Daniel Lyons
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Feast commemorating Christ's resurrection.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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A Christian festival in commemoration of the resurrection of Christ, and occurring on the first Sunday after the full moon which happens upon or next after the 21st of March. Easter offerings, or Easter dues, money paid to the parson of a parish at Easter. Easter Term, one of the four terms during which the superior courts of Westminster are open, from April 15 to May 8; a university term extending to some six weeks after Easter.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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