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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Mon(o)unday, n. Also: mon(o)wn-, monoon-, monan-, monin-, mon(n)on(n)-, mon(n)en-, mon(n)yn-, monn(o)un-, muno(u)n-, munnon-, mun(n)un(n)-, munnyn-; mounon- and -daye, -da, -dey and Mano(u)nday, Monoday. [ME. monendæiȝ, munendai, monen-, monunday, OE. mónan dæᵹ (rendering late L. lūnæ diēs), f. mónan gen. sg. of móna Mone n. (the moon). Cf. Mounday.]

Monday. Also attrib. and possess.Also Blak Mon(an)day, hansell mononday Han(d)sel(l n. b, pasch-, pace-, witsoun- mononday, qq. v.(a) 1385 Red Bk. Grandtully I. 139.*
On Mononday neste before Whyssonday 1393–4 Slater Early Sc. Texts 29.
On Monownday the xiij day of … Jenvare 14.. Acts I. 52/2. 1425 Ib. II. 11/2.
Begynande the Monunday of the first hail wolke of Lenteryn 1427 Ib. 16/1.
Ilk Monunday ilk Weddynis day & ilk Friday 1434 Ayr B. Ct.
Monynday ?1438 Alex. ii. 6593.
Monnonday 1474 Edinb. B. Rec. I. 29.
Tuiching the rasing of the Monundais penny of … thaym at werkis thair awin laubor 1497 (c 1580) Ib. 71.
Be Monounday a 1500 Coldstream Chart. 45.
The thrid Monwnday owt geingand of Awerhill c1515 Asl. MS. I. 240/14.
On the Monunday before Fastrennis evyn 1524 (c 1580) Edinb. B. Rec. I. 219.
Monenday 1531 Perth Guildry 373 (11 Nov.).
Moninday 1532 Aberd. B. Rec. in Mill Mediæv. Plays 125.
Mounonday 1547 Corr. M. Lorraine 203.
Last Monownday 1552 Ib. 358.
Al was dwin afoir Monwnday 1558-66 Knox I. 93.
This was done the Mononday at the mercat croce of Edinburgh. But the Mononday following [etc.] 1565 Instit. Ct. Sess. 13 a.
Anent the Monundayis tabell 1568 Hosack Mary Q. of Scots I. 537.
Monnonnday 1570 Lanark B. Rec. 51.
For fouir Monondayis custum 1578 Edinb. D. Guild Acc. 69.
Monnynday 1572 Buch. Detect. (1727) 130.
I bring the man with me to Craigmillar upon Monounday quhair he will be all Wednisday 1572-5 Diurn. Occurr. 24.
The Inglismen … lay still fra Monunday to Sattirday 1583 St. A. Kirk S. 501.
Befoir Hansell Mononday last wes 1584 Waus Corr. 303.
The lard of Garleis officer hes cum this Monoon day to your lo. grwnd 1587 Edinb. B. Rec. IV. 483.
Bot on the Monondayes 1589 Maxwell Mem. II. 164.
Monnunday 1591 Thanes of Cawdor 202.
Monnounday 1593 Breadalbane Doc. 22 Dec.
Vpone Monenday cum aucht dayis 1597 Skene Verb. S. s.v. Setterdayis.
Mononday 1597 Household Bks. Jas. VI 7 Nov.
Monnenday 1598 Acts IV. 160/1.
Mononday … salbe … imployit … in … pastymes Ib. /2.
Vpoun the said Mononday everieilk oulk 1598 St. A. Baxter Bks. 63.
This Monenday last 1600 Glasgow Wrights 47.
Onlie on Monondayis 1605 Glasgow Merchants House 97.
Bot vpone Monnonnday or Settirday 1607 Inverurie B. Ct. 16 Nov.
Monunday 1610 Old Ross-shire I. 345.
The Monnonday be ten horis … my wyff is depertit this lyffe 1615 Chron. Perth 17.
Vpon Monandey 1616 Melrose P. 258.
Monnondayes, Wednisdayes, and Frydayes 1631 Orkney Rentals App. 54.
Monanday 1632 Sutherland Corr. 155.
On Monnonday nixt 1640 Strong Sc. Second. Educ. 110.
On Mononday morning 1648 Fife Synod 158.
Monenday 1676 Moray Synod 164.
The Mononday following(b) 1491 Acts II. 226/2.
Begynnande on Munnonday the first hale woulk of Lentrin 1512 Household Bk. Jas. IV b.
Mununnday 1529 M. Works Acc. (ed.) I. 2.
Ane day in this olk viz. Munnunday 1540 Elgin Rec. I. 52.
Mununday efter Huphallowday 1555–6 Edinb. Old Acc. I. 198.
Munnunnday the iij day of August 1557 Inverness Rec. I. 15.
This last Munnynday tomorroy 1579 Black Bk. Taymouth 142.
Thre peralis dais … viz. the first Munnunda ever yer, the last Munnunda of May and the last Munnunda of September 1591 Reg. Morton I. 176.
I hawe bein this Mununday in Dundej and [etc.] 1591 Thanes of Cawdor 202.
xxvij September being Munounday 1593 Maxwell Mem. II. 169.
Munnonday 1676 Red Bk. Grandtully I. cxl.
Till Munonday last