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Michaelmas

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Mich·ael·mas  (mkl-ms)
n.
1. A Christian feast observed in honor of the archangel Michael.
2. September 29, the day on which this feast is observed.
[Middle English mychelmesse, from Old English (Sanct) Michaeles mæsse, (Saint) Michael's mass : Michaeles, genitive of Michael, the archangel Michael + mæsse, Mass; see Mass.]
Michaelmas [mik-kl-mass]
Noun
Sept 29, the feast of St Michael the archangel: one of the four quarter days in England, Ireland, and Wales
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Noun1.Michaelmas - honoring the archangel Michael; a quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland
Michaelmas Day, September 29
quarter day - a Christian holy day; one of four specified days when certain payments are due
Sep, Sept, September - the month following August and preceding October
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Morris immediately; that he is to take possession before Michaelmas, and some of his servants are to be in the house by the end of next week.
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"I'm my own contractor, my own carpenter, and my own bricklayer, and I shall be sixty-seven come Michaelmas," he added, by no means irrelevantly.
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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.
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