See Also: michaelmas(medicine)
Michaelmas(dictionary)
Michaelmas(dictionary)
MICHAELMAS TERM(law)

Michaelmas (iou)



Michaelmas noun. ME.
[Contr. of St Michael's mass.]
(The date, 29 September, of) the feast of St Michael, one of the quarter days in England, Wales, and Ireland.
Comb.: Michaelmas daisy (a flowering stem of) any of various late-flowering garden asters, forms and hybrids of Aster novi-belgii, A. novae-angliae, and other N. American species, with long panicles of lilac, white, crimson, etc., blooms; Michaelmas sitting(s) = Michaelmas term (b) below; Michaelmas term (a) a term in some universities beginning soon after Michaelmas; (b) the first of the terms or sessions of the High Court in England; Michaelmas tide the season of Michaelmas.