Meanings
- archaicThe season around the feast day of Saint Hilary (January 13th); the season following Christmastide.
Its duration was fixed for a year from the ensuing Christmas or Hilary-tide
1924, Norgate, Kate, Richard The Lion Heart, page 3162 more examples
In 1273 we find a more important illustration of the growth of the custom: at Hilary-tide a great convocation of tho whole realm was held to take the oath of fealty to Edward I, and to maintain the peace of the realm
1911, Stubbs, William, The Constitutional history of England: its origin and development, page 234Parliament had been meeting regularly, generally around Hilary-tide, and had been countering Henry's petulant demands for money, money, and more money with specific counterdemands.
1959, Thomas B. Costain, chapter 4, in the magnificent century, page 154
Origin
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