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Wed(y)nysday, Weddinisday, Wen(d)sday, Wod(d)insday, Wad(d)insday, n. Also: wedynnisda, wed(d)ins-, weddyn(n)is-, -innissday, wedinday, wedenisdaye, weddens(e)-, -ans-, wednis-, weddnys-, wed(d)nes-, wendi(n)s-, vendin(nis)-, veddyins-, ved(e)nys-, veddens-, vednisday, ved(d)nesday, woddinnes daye, -innis-, -yns-, wod(e)nis-, woddnesday, vodynnis day, voidinis-, vodins-, -enis-, vodnisday, wadinesday, wadins-, wadnysdaye, -nesday, wandis-, vadynis-, -insday, widinsday(e. [ME and e.m.E. wendesdai (Layamon), Wodnesdei, Wednesdei, Weodnesdei (all a1225), Wednesday (Cursor M.), wedenisdai (c1400), Wanysday (c1450), Wensdaye (1558), OE Wódnes dæᵹ.] Wednesday.(a) 1385 3rd Rep. Hist. MSS App. iii 410/1.
The Wedynysday, the xvi day of … Nouember c1420 Wynt. vi 2344.
Woden, … In till honowre off hym for-thi Weddnesday [W. Wednisday, C. Wednysday] thai held haly 1428 Liber Melros 521.
Weddnysday 1431 Buccleuch Mun. II 28.
The Wednysday next efter the feest offe [etc.] 1476 Ayr B. Ct. 3 July.
Vedenysday 1488 Reg. Paisley 406.
The saidis partis sal compere … apon the grund of the sadis landis on Weddynnisday 1490–1 Treas. Acc. I 171.
Wedynnisda 1491–2 Acta Conc. I 208/2.
The lordis … assignis to … Robert Vedinnisday cum viij dayis … to produce [etc.] 1497–8 Acta Conc. II 97.
Wednesday that next cumis a1508 Kennedy Pass. Christ 260.
Wedinday c1500-c1512 Dunb. (OUP) 197/1 (M).
Wodnisday 1512 Household Bk. Jas. IV 4a.
Wedinsday 1516 Rec. Earld. Orkney 90.
Weddinissday 1521–2 Wemyss Chart. 151.
Weddinsday 1526 Acts II 314/2.
That thare be wolklie thre mercat dais for selling of breide … Monunday Wednisday and Friday 1534–5 Prot. Bk. J. Cristisone 35.
Vedinsday 1542 State P. (Reg. H.) No. 34.
Vednysday 1544 Corr. M. Lorraine 82.
Writtin in haist at Glas[gu] this Vednesday 1545 Corr. M. Lorraine 145.
This nyxt Vedinsday 1545 Corr. M. Lorraine 147.
Veddn[e]sday 1553 Douglas Corr. 169.
Weddansday 1547 Douglas Corr. 169.
Yritin … this Weddinisday, the xxij of Februar 1565 Inverness Rec. I 128.
Wedenisdaye 1567–8 (c1650) Dundee B. Laws 34.
Veddensday 1572 Peebles B. Rec. I 338.
Weddynisday 1590 Dundas Fam. P. xxviii.
We … grantis licence to … thame to eat flesche … upoun Wednisdayis Frydayis and Setterdayis dureing [Lent] 1597 Maxwell Mem. II 189.
Vednisday is the langest that ȝe may avayt vpoun 1599 Elgin Rec. II 72.
That the Wedinsdayis sermounis be keiped ilk Wedinsday 1648 St. A. Presb. 122.
Weddenseday 1676 Wemyss Corr. 137.
Weddensday(b) 1565 Reg. Morton I 14.
Wendsday 1568 Anderson Collect. Mary IV ii 74.
Wendisday 1665 Elgin Rec. II 304.
Wendinsday 1669 Kirkcudbr. Sheriff Ct. Deeds I 171.
Wensday 1691 Annandale Corr. 54.
Wensday 1697 Maxwell Mem. 105.
Wensday(c) a1384 Fordun I 253.
Quartam [feriam] suo nomini dedicantes, diem Woden vocabant, quæ consuetudo per Anglos etiam hodie servatur, vocant enim eundem diem Wodenisday 1513 Selkirk B. Ct. MS 26a.
Woddinnes daye 1544 Corr. M. Lorraine 116.
Woddinnisday 1552 Corr. M. Lorraine 358.
Woddnesday 1547–8 Corr. M. Lorraine 221.
Vodnisday 1556 Glasgow Bakers 59.
Woddynsday 1557 Corr. M. Lorraine 409.
Vodenisday 1562-3 Winȝet I 126/11.
Wodinsday 1567 Crail B. Ct. MS 4 Nov.
Ilk Voidinisday 1569-73 Bann. Memor. 117.
Woddinsday 1570 Prestwick B. Rec. 71.
Vodynnis day a1578 Pitsc. II 180 n.
Vodinsday(d) 1540 Linlithgow B. Ct. 27 Oct.
Affixis Vadynisday nixt cumis to the said Alexander to preif [etc.] 1555 Wemyss Chart. 182.
Wadnysdaye 1583 Irvine Mun. I 221.
Teching twyse everie Sonday … likwyse upone the Waddinsday and Fryday 1600 Argyll Rentals 27.
Wadinsdaye 1610 Inverurie B. Ct. 20 April.
That the fauld be compleitlie biggitt betwix & Wadinsday at ewin nixt 1611 Breadalbane Lett. 2 Sept.
Vadinsday 1626 1st Rep. Hist. MSS 175.
Wadnesday … last 1648 Glasgow B. Rec. II 147.
Wadinesday(e) 1658 Glasgow B. Rec. II 391.
Wandisday(f) 1663 Arniston Mem. 26.
Pray … let me hear it … by a line; the Widinsdayes weeklie post will carrie it

b. In the names of particular days in the calendar of the Church. See also Ask-Wedinsday n. 1471 Acta Aud. 16/1.
Gude Wednisday in passioun woulk 1549 Compl. 168/10.
Vytson Veddyinsday