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name the day

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  1. Fix the date for a wedding, as in Her parents pressed her to name the day. This expression was first recorded in 1766. However, similar usages for specifying a time, such as name the time, date from the late 1500s.


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Other people who are able to name the day of the week for any given date are also able to do it for dates outside of their lifetimes, and they tend to be autistic.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 8, 2017

Since that moment she has not been allowed to leave her home, where she is being tutored in court etiquette as she waits for Farouk to name the day.

From Time Magazine Archive

At five, employing a formula of his own devising, he could instantly name the day of the week on which any date in history fell.

From Time Magazine Archive

And they name the day of his setting out, and this news immediately runs throughout all the kingdom.

From A Description of the Coasts of East Africa and Malabar in the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century by Duarte Barbosa

To her mind he was merely awaiting the moment when she was ready to name the day for their marriage.

From A Black Adonis by Linn Boyd Porter

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