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Set(t)erday, Sat(t)er-, Saturnday, n. Also: settir-, -yr-, setor-, setre(t)-, sat(t)ir-, sat(t)ur-, sathur-, saturne-, saiturn-, saturns-, satterns-, saturne his-, sateruris- and -daye, -da, -dy. [ME and e.m.E. Saterdei (c1175), Saterrdaȝȝ (Orm), Satur-day (c1290), Saterday (c1300), Seterdai (Cursor M.), Seterday (Piers Plowman), Setrys day (1418), Saturneday (1421), Saturnesday (c1447), Satirday (c1500), Satterday (1556), OE Sætern(es)dæȝ, L. Satūrnī diēs the day of (the god) Saturn.]

1. Saturday.Chiefly (up)on or the Setterday.(a) 1375 Barb. xi 352 (C).
And on the morn, on Settirday, The king herd … That [etc.] ?1438 Alex. ii 6498.
Outher to-morne or vpone Setterday 1410 Reg. Episc. Brechin. I 31.
Wpon the law day eftir Ȝuill, the Setterday the tent day of Januar c1420 Wynt. v 4033.
He ordanyd to fast the Settyrday 1469 Acts II 97/1.
For samekle as the Setterday and vthir vigillis ar nocht of law biddin haly day bot fra evin sang to evin sang 1483 (c1580) Edinb. B. Rec. I 48.
Upoun ilk Settirday efternone 1490 Treas. Acc. I 170, 171.
On Setterda the xxvij⁰ Nouembris, … Item, the saim Setterda at evin ?a1500 Remembr. Passion heading.
Heir endis the exercicioun for Setterday 1525 Douglas Corr. 339.
Upone Setterdaye last past 1563 St. A. Kirk S. 191.
This nixt Setterday 1569-73 Bann. Memor. 33.
As thai did the most pairt of Setterday 1572 Buch. Detect. (1727) 130.
From Glasgow this Setterday in the morning 1585–6 Reg. Morton I 146.
And vpoun Woddinsdayis Frydayis and Setterdayis 1587 Old Ross-shire I 25.
[On the Sabbath day called] Setterday 1601 Glasgow B. Rec. I 220.
Wpoun Setterdy nixt 1632 Ritchie Ch. S. Baldred 238.
That the Setterday all the nicht was foule(b) a1400 Leg. S. x 327.
Of thi predecessare … That to the kirk ilke Setre-day vald cum me til a1400 Leg. S. x 336.
The next Setret-day 1431 Liber Melros II 522.
On the Seterday nexte befor Saynte Jamys day a 1600 Skipper's Acc. (Morton) 54a.
Vpone Seterdaye 1618 Trial Isabel Inch 12.
Ilk Seterday at evin 1618 Trial Isabel Inch 12.
Efter the Seterday at evin 1630 Aberd. Council Lett. I 319.
This Seterday leat 1645 Aberd. Council Lett. III 3.
Fra Seterday at nicht … to Wedensday at twell houris(c) 1554–5 Edinb. Old Acc. I 153.
On Saiterday at evin(d) 1537 Reg. Episc. Aberd. I 413.
And callit one the Satirday among the laif of the faltis 1551 Hamilton Cat. 51.
Certane craftis men … will nocht begin thair warke on the Saterday … quhilk is plane superstition 1562 Dysart Rec. 17.
That the mercat day salbe upon the Saturday and that nae mercheandise be maid upon Sonday 1562-3 Winȝet I 28/19.
And gif he abolissis with vs the Saterday 1562-3 Winȝet I 116/20.
Quhy ar ȝe sa bauld … to celebrat ȝour Sabbath day with ws Catholikis on the Sounday, and nocht with the Jowis on the Saterday? 1597 Skene Verb. S. (1599) s.v. Hebdomas.
The seventh and laste daye of the weike … is called Sater-daye or Satur-daye 1603 Dundonald Par. Rec. 36.
Beltan evin last, quhilk vas on ane Satirday [supra Setter-] 1649 Strong Sc. Second. Educ. 147.
Vpon each Sathurday 1656 Cramond Ch. Rathven 21 (see Sely adj. 1 b).
The six silie Saturdayes(e) 1529 Edinb. B. Rec. II 14.
The provest ballies [etc.] … dischargis thame of ony bying of fysche apone Fryday … nor ȝit apone Satterday quhill efter none 1563-1570 Buch. Wr. 13.
On Satterday euery classe sal propone certaine propositions 1572-5 Diurn. Occurr. 127.
Vpoun the tuantie day of December, quhilk wes Sattirday Hibbert P. No. 19.
One the 5 day of Dec quhilk was one Satturday 1663 Acts VII 481/1.
On Monday and Satterday(f) 1569-73 Bann. Memor. 32.
The saidis lordis, vpon Saturneday the second day efter thair aryvell 1631 Kelso Glovers 9.
That non … carie there … waires upon the Saturnday 1660-1 Mercurius Caledonius 4.
Saturnday, Jan the fifth 1692 Peebles B. Rec. II 140.
In regaird the day of appearance is Munday, the counsell allowes them [sc. witnesses] to goe in on Saturnday 1696 Misc. Spald. C. II lxvii.
Upon the first of February, being Saturnday, the keys of the church were required(g) 1545 Corr. M. Lorraine 141.
On Sateruris day at eweyne a1650 Row 515.
On Saturnsday, Aprile 27, they disbanded their men 1653 Cullen Kirk S. 6 Nov.
The people were desyred to conveene Saturne his day 1666 Lamont Diary 191.
Jul. 28, being Saturns day,—the magistrands … wer gradwatt

b. possess. and attrib.possess. (1) 1565 Instit. Ct. Sess. in Edinb. Univ. MS La.iii.388a, fol. 13b.
And memberis of the same sic as the aduocattis, men of law, scrybis, etc. thay get proces be the Setterdayes tabill 1621 Stirling Merch. Guild 40.
All friemen quha vses to stand on the gaitt on Setterdays merkat 1649 Elgin Rec. II 359.
The ministers of Elgin vndertook to deall with the magistratis off Elgin to change the Saturndayes mercat 1649 Moray Synod 97.
The presbytery of Invernes ar appoynted to change both thair Saturdayes and Mandayes mercat 1661 Aberd. Council Lett. IV 153.
Lyss [? syss] fish, teind fish, Saturdayes fishing c1662 Wemyss Corr. 109.
Yestirday I hed your Setordays letir, which was most welcom 1665 Cramond Cullen Ann. 50.
It is ordanit that no inhabitant … off this burgh sall permitt their servants to have Saturnedayes fraughts under the pain of fyve punds money 1670 Reg. Privy C. 3 Ser. III 176.
Only tuelve shilling Scotts for every last, and that in satisfaction of the Saturndayes [pr. Saturudayes] fishing(2) 1659 Aberd. Eccl. Rec. 159.
Onlie she was brewing one Saturnedayes night 1666 Wodrow Hist. II (1829) 35.
The forces at Linton Bridge, are ordered to keep together till Saturday's night 1680 Cramond Ch. Grange 36.
Haveing … danceing … in his house late upon Saturdayes night 1694 McNaught Kilmaurs 167.
That non should be fund drinking in alehousses … upon the Saiturndayes night efter nyne hours 1694 Seafield Corr. 144.
Both the barks with your victuall came to Leith harbour on Satterdays nightattrib. 1639 Acts V 598/1.
The article craving discharge of the Setterday mercate red and refuised 1649 Elgin Rec. II 435.
Saturnday disputs [sc. in the grammar school] begin be sewen hours 1653 A. B. Barty Hist. Dunblane 95.
He band ane stook of corn on the Lord's Day being unbound on the Satternsday night and rain likely to be on the morrow

2. Blak Settirday: a. The day of the Battle of Pinkie, 10 September 1547. b. The day of the ratification of the Five Articles of Perth, 4 August 1621.a. 1576 Crim. Trials I ii 56.
Quhen he and he went togidder to the blak Settirday 1572-5 Diurn. Occurr. 44 (see Blak Sattirday n.). 1611-57 Mure II 255 (see Blak Sattirday n.).b. a1651 Calderwood VII 505.
This Satterday, the 4th of August, was called by the people, ‘Black Satterday’