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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Hilary term

/hĭl'-ẽr-ē tẽrm/ · Hil·a·ry term · IPA /ˈhɪləɹi tɝm/
01 Formerly, one of the four terms of the courts of common law in England, beginning on the eleventh of January and ending on the thirty-first…
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    Formerly, one of the four terms of the courts of common law in England, beginning on the eleventh of January and ending on the thirty-first of the same month, in each year; -- so called from the festival of St. Hilary, January 13th.