Citations:overmorrow

English citations of overmorrow

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Adverb: on the day after tomorrow

• 1535, Myles Coverdale, The Byble, that is, the Holy Scrypture of the Olde and New Teſtament, faythfully tranſlated into Englyſhe‎^[1], Tobit 8:4, page D.iiij:

  Thē ſpake Tobias unto the virgin, and ſayde: Up Sara, let us make oure prayer unto God to daye, tomorow, and ouermorow: for theſe thre nightes wil we reconcyle oure ſelues with God: and whan the thirde holy night is paſt, we ſhall ioyne together in y^e deutye of mariage.

  Then spake Tobias unto the virgin, and said: Up Sara, let us make our prayer unto God today, tomorrow, and overmorrow: for these three nights will we reconcile ourselves with God, and when the third holy night is past, we shall join together in the duty of marriage.

• 1675, Henry Hexham with Daniel Manly, A Copious English and Netherdutch Dictionary: Comprehending the English Language with the Low-Dutch Expectation‎^[2], Rotterdam: Widdow of Arnold Leers, →OL:

  Overmorgen, Over the Morrow, Overmorrow.

• 1925, Parliamentary Debates: Official Report‎^[3], volume 188, H.M. Stationery Off., page iv:

  We can go not overmorrow, but on Thursday.

• 1969, James Klugman, quoting Bucharin, History of the Communist Party of Great Britain: The General Strike, 1925-1927‎^[4], volume 2, London: Lawrence & Wishart, page 73:

  Sinowjeff and myself go to Caucasus overmorrow.

• 2008 July 7, spiffo, “Re: Overmorrow”, in xkcd‎^[5], retrieved 2012-06-01:

  nice find, I think I'll use it too, my college orientation is overmorrow.

• 2009 May 5, Ammon Shea, Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages‎^[6], New York: Perigee, →ISBN, →OL:

  Overmorrow—of or relating to the day after tomorrow.

• 2011 December 7, TileHead, “Yestreen”, in TileHead‎^[7], retrieved 2012-06-01:

  Regardless, we will conclude our examination of words starting with the letter Y overmorrow.

• 2012 May 12, Stephen Bierce, “Mirror Mirror On The Wall”, in Pilot's Log‎^[8], retrieved 2012-06-01:

  I'm looking at a long dark teatime of the soul overmorrow.

• 2012 July 3, CWGWolff, “Task-Bug”, in Ars Regendi Simulation Forum‎^[9], retrieved 2012-06-01:

  Afterwards I finally couldnt decide on any more tasks but that was a total of 4 today, since 6 tasks can be decided on maximum per week as far as i know I shouldnt get more than 1 task for decision tomorrow ond^[sic] overmorrow.

• 2012 September 13, “@LGoS”, in Twitter‎^[10], retrieved 2012-09-15:

  New students in Greenbank and Carnatic Halls start moving in overmorrow.

• 2013 May 28, blackcrown97, “Overmorrow”, in Asianfanfics‎^[11], retrieved 2013-07-01:

  You may cry tomorrow, but overmorrow please find your happiness.

Noun: day after tomorrow

• 1577, H. I. (tr.), Fiftie Godlie and Learned Sermons, Divided into Five Decades...‎^[12], volume 2, London: Ralph Newberie, translation of original by Heinrich Bullinger, →OL, part 3, second sermon, page BB.viij:

  For thou needeſt not by thy morrowe and ouer-morrowe delayes to augment his diſcommoditye and hinderance any longer, from whome thou haſt by thy ſubtill meanes and wicked violence, wreſted the goodes that he hath, conſidering that he to his loſſe hath lacked them long enough, and beene without them too too long God wot.

  For thou needest not by thy morrow and overmorrow delay to augment his discommodity and hindrance any longer, from whom thou hast by thy subtle means and wicked violence, wrested the goods that he hath, considering that he to his loss hath lacked them long enough, and been without them too too long God wot.

• 1873, Charles Fleming with J. Tibbins, Royal Dictionary: English and French and French and English, volume 1, Paris: Fermin-Didot, page 816:

  OVERMORROW, s. après-demain, m.

• 1891, Paluri Sankaranarayana, An English-Telugu Dictionary, Madras: K. R. Press, →OL, page 482:

  Overmorrow, n. ఎల్లుండి (elluṇḍi)

• 1898, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The first part of the tragedy of Faust, Longmans, Green and Co., page 197:

  My prescient limbs already borrow
  From rare Walpurgis-night a glow :
  It comes round on the overmorrow —
  Then why we are awake we know.

• 2011 May 11, Annelie Gab Kretzschmar, “Ereyesterday and overmorrow”, in brainmoths‎^[13], retrieved 2012-06-01:

  Since i did not like writing "Übermorgen" i researched and found the deleted words "overmorrow" and "ereyesterday".

• 2011 December 20, Tall and Weird, “Welcome to the world of overmorrow!”, in Lofty Peculiarities‎^[14], retrieved 2012-06-01:
• 2012 August 13, Frank Swain, “@SciencePunk”, in Twitter‎^[15], retrieved 2012-08-18:

  "Overmorrow" is an archaic English word that means "the day after tomorrow". MIND BLOWN, using this all the time now.