Also 6 landtaye, 7 landt-tag; (anglicized) land-day. [Ger. (MHG. lanttac) = lit. ‘land-day.’] In Germany, the diet or legislative body of a state; formerly, the Diet of Empire or of the German Confederation.
1591. Wotton, Lett., 27 Feb., in Reliq. W. (1685), 628. Of our Landtaye we hear nothing yet, but the necessity is such as it must be shortly.
1665. Lond. Gaz., No. 11/1. It’s now determined in Concilio Senatorum, at Warsaw, that the Parliament shall begin the 17th of March, and the Landttag the third of February. Ibid. (1668), No. 225/2. The Land-day for Prussia is to begin the third day of the next month at Marienburgh, in Order to the General Diet.
1684. Scanderbeg Rediv., ii. 22. They have a Convention held in each County, call’d The Landt-Tag, six weeks before the Session of the Diet.
