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Ty(i)sday(e, Twisday, Tu(i)sday(e, Tew(i)sday, Thyisda(y, n. Also: tysda, -dey, -dy(e, tyseday, tyesday, tyuisday, tyousday, tisda(y, tiisday, tiseday, twy(i)sday, twyseday, twsday, twesday, tuysd(ay, tuiesday, tuesday, -daie, tusdy, tewysday, teu(i)sday, te(y)sday, (teudinsday), thysday, thusday, theusday. [ME and e.m.E. tisdæi (Layamon), tywesdaiȝ (c1290), tewisday (c1450), towesday (c1500), Twesdaie (1587), Tuesday (Shakespeare), OE Tíwesdæᵹ, ON týsdagr.] Tuesday, the third day of the week.For Pasch Tisday and Witsone Tysday see Pas(c)h(e n. 1 b (1) and Witson attrib. c (2).(a) 1375 Barb. xv 101 (C).
The Tysday [E. Twysday] in Pask-owk ?1438 Alex. ii 5031.
The Tyisday eftir 1406 Rep. Hist. MSS, Var. Coll. V 78.
Tiseday 14.. Acts I 54/2.
The Tyisday next before the fest of Allhallowis 1445 Melville Chart. 30.
On Tysday eftir Martimez 1446 Charter (Reg. H.) No. 396.
Betvix this and Tysday nyxt tocum 1479 Acts II 126/2.
Tyisdaye 1484–5 Acta Conc. I *93/1.
The lordis assignis him Tisda the xj da of this instant monethe 1496 Rec. Earld. Orkney 74. ?a1500 Remembr. Passion 146.
For Tisday: the xiii article: Think how thai accusit with fals witnes 1514 Acta Conc. Publ. Aff. 14.
Tiisday 1520 Edinb. Hammermen 102b.
Tysda 1524–5 (c1580) Edinb. B. Rec. I 221.
Tyesday 1525 Douglas Corr. 99.
Send the said wryttyngis … to my Lade of Caldstreme … this Tysdy the last day of Januare 1532 M. Works Acc. (ed.) I 102.
Tyvisday 1578–9 Reg. Privy C. III 81.
The first Tyisday of the first moneth of the four quarteris of the yeir 1581 Stirling Presb. 2.
The exerceis to be kepit ilk Tysday at ix houris 1583 Maxwell Mem. II 152.
Tyseday … ane greit weit all day 1590 Edinb. B. Rec. V 17.
That ane wawpounschawing be proclamet agane Tysday cum aucht dayes 1590 Crail B. Ct. 10 Nov.
Tysdey 1601 Glasgow B. Rec. I 214.
To caus warne the principall to Tysdye nixt to be in redines 1603 Dundonald Par. Rec. 38.
All that haif noth cum to examinatioun this yar to keip Tysday nixt to that effect 1640 Elgin Rec. I 267.
Tysdaye 1669 Haddington Corr. 194.
On Tyousday bothe the plet runs, at which ther is six horsies(b) a1400 Leg. S. xl 747.
The for-sad Twysday Of Sanct Johnne the baptist ?1438 Alex. ii 2135.
On Tuisday the battell sall be 1541–2 State P. (Reg. H.) No. 27.
Twisday last 1558–9 Edinb. Old Acc. I 293.
Twesday 1564 Perth B. Ct. 88a (20 May).
To the quhilk the jugis assins Tuysday eftir lawsounday 1572-5 Diurn. Occurr. 103.
The sevintene day of December, quhilk was Twisday 1570 Inverness Rec. I 194.
Tuisdaye 1570 Dumfr. & Galloway Soc. XIII 241.
Tuesday 1597 Skene Verb. S. (1599) s.v. Hebdomas.
The thrid day, Twisday, in Dutch Dienstag 1613 Maxwell Mem. II 69.
Tuesdaie 1613 Elgin Rec. II 133.
That the haill cheif marcat dayis … be changit to Tuysday 1644 Fife Synod 139.
The last Sabboth of October … togither with the Tuiesday and Thursday … be also dayes of solemne humiliatione 1657 Aberd. Eccl. Rec. 139.
Twyseday 1696 Carmyllie Kirk S. 6 Sept.
A fast to be kept on Tuysd next(c) 1523 [MS 1522] Selkirk B. Ct. (ed.) 68.
The nixt hed curt to be haldin upone the Tusdaye nixt efter Mychelmes 1584 Melvill 183.
A day in the ouk, Tusday or Furisday 1612 Breadalbane Lett. 28 Nov.
My lord … tuke journey twsday last(d) 1385 3rd Rep. Hist. MSS 410/1.
Thys tewysday that nw ys 1385 3rd Rep. Hist. MSS 410/2.
Tewisday the xxi day of Auryll 1496 Acta Conc. II 34.
The accione … is contenewit be the Lordis to Teuisday 1498 Acta Conc. II 293.
Teuisday 1524 Douglas Corr. 329.
Scribled this Tewsday at mydnyghte 1543 Soc. Ant. II 403.
Tesday 1574 Misc. Maitl. C. I 99.
Teudinsday at ij houris eftir nowne 1647 Glasgow B. Rec. II 120.
Teysday nixt at ten hours(e) 1393 Reg. Morton II 192.
This endenture made at Dalketh on Thusday the xviij day of September 1488 Treas. Acc. I 101.
On Thyisda the xxix^t da of December, to the king, to play at the dys 1489 Treas. Acc. I 126.
On Thyisda the xv da December, … takin be the king … of quhyt siluer xx^ti s. 1544 Maxwell Mem. I 287.
Thysday the xx tua day of Julij 1583 Wemyss Corr. 81.
Thyisday 1640 Haddington Corr. 178.
Theusday

b. possess.(1) 1549 Acta Conc. Publ. Aff. 592.
Nicholace Ganysfurd, Inglisman, takin prisoner … at the Tuysdayis chaice at Haddingtoun a1578 Pitsc. II 110/23.
Thair come in the said toun [sc. Haddington] ane great airmie of Ingland to furnische the same bot … they war so chassit, slaine and taine at thair returning quhilk was callit the Tuysdayis chace that [etc.] a1605 Birrel Diary 4.
The 17 day of Julay, a feild called Twesdayes chaisse — 1604 Elgin Rec. II 122.
The magistrattis to hald hand to the Tuisdayis preaching 1613 Elgin Rec. II 134.
Twysdayis sermoun—To admoneis the people … that they keipt the Twysdayis preitching — 1670 Aberd. Council Lett. V 10.
My last letter sent with the Twyisdays post 1700 Annandale Corr. 339.
I … shall send it down ather with this or Teusday's packet(2) 1696 Davidson Rowan Tree 268.
Fetch the minister of the paroch and two honest men upon Tuesdays night