daysman

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English

Etymology

From day +‎ -s- +‎ -man.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈdeɪzmən/

Noun

daysman (plural daysmen)

(archaic) An arbiter, referee, mediator.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, Job 9:33:
  Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: , 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
  , 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 […].
A labourer who works during the day.

Anagrams

man days, man-days, mandyas

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