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Webster 1913 Edition
Week
Week
,Noun.
[OE.
weke
, wike
, woke
, wuke
AS. weocu
, wicu
, wucu
; akin to OS. wika
, OFries. wike
, D. week
, G. woche
, OHG. wohha
, wehha
, Icel. vika
, Sw. vecka
, Dan. uge
, Goth. wik[GREEK]
, probably originally meaning, a succession or change, and akin to G. wechsel
change, L. vicis
turn, alternation, and E. weak
. Cf. Weak
.] A period of seven days, usually that reckoned from one Sabbath or Sunday to the next.
I fast twice in the
week
. Luke xviii. 12.
☞ Although it [the week] did not enter into the calendar of the Greeks, and was not introduced at Rome till after the reign of Theodesius, it has been employed from time immemorial in almost all Eastern countries.
Encyc. Brit.
Webster 1828 Edition
Week
WEEK
,Noun.
1.
The space of seven days.I fast twice in the week. Luke 18.
2.
In Scripture, a prophetic week, is a week of years, or seven years. Daniel 9.