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Definition of "year-day" []

  • A certain day of the year, defined by the position of the sun, the moon, or a star, for instance, by the setting of the sun behind a distant peak: used by primitive tribes in roughly adjusting the lunar and solar calendars, or for determining the time of ceremonials. (noun)
  • An anniversary day; a day on which prayers were said for the dead. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

Use "year-day" in a sentence
  • "In the description under consideration it evidently can not signify the ordinary 24-hour day nor yet the year-day; for it covers the Protestant period following the 1,260-year reign of Romanism and preceding the Last"
  • "Applying the year-day standard to the period of twelve hundred and sixty days, we have twelve hundred and sixty years."
  • "There is no doubt that the year-day method of computing time is used in the prophecy of Daniel 9, the sixty-nine _weeks_ reaching from the time of the decree of Artaxerxes in 457 B.C. until A.D. 26, the year when Christ was baptized and entered on his personal ministry."