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Michaelmas

NOUN
  1. honoring the archangel Michael; a quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland

How To Use Michaelmas In A Sentence

  • Richard Walerond is to make two suits yearly, one at 'La Hockeday,' [10] and one at Michaelmas amercement, to consist of one sextary of wine of the value of sixpence and not more. Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts
  • When you happen to see either Monsieur or Madame Perny, I beg you will give them this melancholic proof of my caducity, and tell them that the last time I went to see the boys, I carried the Michaelmas quarterage in my pocket; and when I was there I totally forgot it; but assure them, that Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
  • 'Thank goodness I'll never have to go through [that] again', he wrote of his time at Marlborough, before entering Magdalen College as a commoner in Michaelmas term 1925.
  • The storms they had read about in Florence had battered the autumn crocuses and Michaelmas daisies. FORESTS OF THE NIGHT
  • The long recess between the Trinity and Michaelmas terms empties the colleges of Oxford, as well as the courts of Westminster. Memoirs of My Life and Writings
  • Lent and Michaelmas or if he be not paid within fourteen Days after the said Feasts to distrain on any part of the Ground or on any of my Lands of Inheritance Item I give to my Sister Katherine Jackson during her life eight pounds per Ann. Annuity to be paid at the two Anatomy of Melancholy
  • Michaelmas had come, with its fragrant basketfuls of purple damsons, and its paler purple daisies’.
  • There Rivaux, who had yielded up before Michaelmas most of his shrievalties, was made treasurer, with Passelewe as his deputy. The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377)
  • Get through that London, Michaelmas Term lately over, and the Lord's Chancellor sitting in the mud on the streets with a megalosaurus creeping up on him or something and see how far I get with this year's Dickens of a Read. Let Christmas begin.
  • In the past week, the fall in temperature has turned the leaves and stems of the dogwood a glorious crimson, making it a marvellous foil for mauve Michaelmas daisies.
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