Undern-time

Quick meaning: Undern-time is a noun meaning (archaic, obsolete, rare) The third hour of daylight (about 9 am); terce.

Meaning

(archaic, obsolete, rare) The third hour of daylight (about 9 am); terce.

Example Sentences

The undern''' time of day is said by some to be the third hour, or nine o'clock; and the repast then taken was called undermele.

Of Under, or Tierce: "At Undern we ought to praise God, because at Undern-time Christ was by the judgment of the Jews condemned to death ... On the Day of Pentecost came the Holy Ghost at Undern-time upon the Apostles […]

Say seven psalms, and those fifteen psalms about undern time, for about such time as mass is sung in all religious communities, when our Lord suffered pain upon the cross, ye ought to be especially in prayers and supplications, and also from Prime till mid-morrow, when the secular priests sing their masses.

Then answered Peter, "It is undern time (the third hour), how might we at this time be drunken? But the saying of the prophet Joel is now fulfilled. God said through the mouth of the prophet that he would send his spirit over human flesh, and men's sons shall prophesy, and I will send my tokens on the earth."

Word Forms

• undern-times

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