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Webster 1913 Edition
Daysman
Days′man
(dāz′măn)
, Noun.
[From
day
in the sense of day fixed for trial.] An umpire or arbiter; a mediator.
Neither is there any
daysman
betwixt us. Job ix. 33.
Webster 1828 Edition
Daysman
DA'YSMAN
,Noun.
Definition 2024
daysman
daysman
English
Noun
daysman (plural daysmen)
- (archaic) An arbiter, referee, mediator.
- 1611, Bible (KJV), Job 9:33:
- Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York, 2001, p.85:
- in Switzerland (we are informed by Simlerus), ‘they had some common arbitrators or daysmen in every town, that made a friendly composition betwixt man and man […]’.
- 1901, David Bryant Fulton, Jack Thorne, Hanover; Or The Persecution of the Lowly: A Story of the Wilmington Massacre, Online edition, Gutenberg Project, published 2009:
- Now, my darlings, let mother be the daysman between you […].
- 1611, Bible (KJV), Job 9:33:
- A labourer who works during the day.