Now Hist. Also 5 vtaus, vtauce, vtase (Sc. wtast, wtes), 5–7 vtas (7 outas), 6 utais, 7 vtis. [Reduced form of the pl. utaves: see OCTAVE sb.] a, b. = OCTAVE sb. 1 a, b.
1387, c. 1420. [see OCTAVE sb. 1].
c. 1430. Pilgr. Lyf Manhode, III. xx. (1869), 146. I selle it by dayes, and bi wookes, bi vtases and bi quinsimes, bi monethes, and bi yeeres.
1463–93. [see OCTAVE sb. 1].
1563. Becon, Reliques, 175 b. For … euery day of the Vtas an hundred days of pardon in remission of al their sinnes.
1599, 1610. [see OCTAVE sb. 1].
1657. Sparrow, Bk. Comm. Prayer, 178. It was the custome of our fore-fathers to observe the Octave or Vtas of their high and principall Feasts.
1672. Manley, Cowell’s Interpr., Utas,… is the eighth day following any Term or Feast,… and any day between the Feast and the Octave, is said to be within the utas.
1701. Hody, Hist. Councils, 368. The Octaves or … the Utas of S. Martin.
1762. Gentl. Mag., 567. These Octaves or Uta’s [sic], as they are often called.
1810. Stat. Realm, I. 390/1. This present Parliament holden … at the Utas of the Holy Trinity [1369].
1833. Nicolas, Chronol. Hist. (1838), 102. The Octave or Utas of each Feast … is always the seventh day after it occurs; or the eighth day, if the day of the Festival be included.
attrib. 1453. Paston Lett., I. 257. Wretyn at Norwych, on the Utas day of Peter and Powll.
c. transf. A period of festivity; = OCTAVE 1 c.
1597–1602. [see OCTAVE 1 c].
