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▪ I. lunary, n.1 ? Obs.|ˈl(j)uːnərɪ|
Also 6–9 in Latin form lunaria.
[ad. med.L. lūnāria, f. L. lūna moon.]
a. The garden plant called honesty, Lunaria biennis.
b. The fern called moonwort, Botrychium Lunaria.
Parkinson (1640 Theat. Bot. 508) says that ‘there are so many herbes called by the name of Lunaria that it would make any man wonder how so many should be called’. The magical powers referred to in quots. 1642 and 1679 seem to have been ascribed to the fern.
c1386Chaucer Can. Yeom. Prol. & T. 247 And herbes koude I telle eek many oon As Egrimoyne, Valerian, and lunarie. 1477Norton Ord. Alch. iii. in Ashm. (1652) 39 Vervaine, Lunara [sic], and Martagon. 1548Turner Names of Herbes (1881) 85 Lunaria is of two kyndes, the one is called in latine Lunaria maior... It maye be called in englishe great Lunari. Some cal it Shabub. The other kinde is called in latin Lunaria minor, which may be called in englishe litle Lunary or Maye Grapes. 1597Gerarde Herbal ii. lxxxv. 328 The small Lunarie springeth foorth of the ground with one leafe like Adders toong. 1627Drayton Agincourt, etc. 127 Then sprinkles she the iuice of Rue..With nine drops of the midnight dewe, From Lunarie distilling. 1642Fuller Holy & Prof. St. iv. v. 261 They say of the herb Lunaria ceremoniously gathered at some set times, that laid upon any lock, it makes it flie open. 1679Hist. Jetzer Pref. 2 The Fathers of that Society have the true Lunaria, which will open the strictest, strongest Locks or Fetters wherewith Conscience can be restrained. 1767J. Abercrombie Ev. Man Own Gard. (1803) 703/2 Lunaria, moon-wort or honesty. 1881Sat. Rev. No. 1325. 374 The genus botrychium, the moon-fern or lunary, to the magical powers of which several of the Elizabethan poets bear testimony.
attrib.1591Lyly Endym. iv. i, You knowe that on the Lunary bancke sleepeth Endimion.
▪ II. lunary, a. and n.2 Now rare.|ˈl(j)uːnərɪ|
[ad. F. lunaire, L. lūnāris: see lunar and -ary.]
A. adj.
1. Of or pertaining to the moon; = lunar a. 1. Also, inhabiting the moon.
1561Eden Art of Navig. ii. vi. 30 These tymes [of conjunctions and oppositions] may be knowen..by the Ephimerides or Almanackes, or other tables, or Lunary instrumentes. 1610Healey St. Aug. Citie of God 550 The yeare as it is now, consumate in twelve lunary revolutions Eastward. 1638Wilkins New World i. (1684) 9 A Lunary Eclipse. c1645Howell Lett. (1692) II. 530 The Moon is peopled with Selenites or Lunary Men. 1651J. F[reake] Agrippa's Occ. Philos. 48 There be here certain things which are Solary, and certain which are Lunary. 1690Leybourn Curs. Math. 447 We are not to imagine..that the Lunary Seas, Lakes,..&c. are of the same Water with our Seas. 1727Bailey vol. II, Lunary, belonging to the moon. a1849Poe Ulalume Wks. 1874 I. p. lxx, The limbo of lunary souls.
b. In lunary month, lunary year (see lunar 1 b).
1602W. Fulbecke Pandectes 4 Their [the Athenians'] twelue monethes did not exceed that number of daies which doth consist of the twelue lunarie monethes. [1642Fuller Holy & Prof. St. i. x. 25 Some erroneously compute the long lives of the Patriarks before the flood not by solary, but lunary years, making a moneth a yeare.] 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iv. xii. 220 The Greeks observed the Lunary yeare, that is, twelve revolutions of the Moone 354. dayes. 1712Desaguliers tr. Ozanam's Geog. 66 The Lunary Month, usually call'd Lunation.
2. transf. and fig.
a. Monthly, menstrual.
1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) III. 394 The ordinary return where anything like a regular period is established, is menstrual or lunary.
b. Lunatic.
c1617Middleton Witch iv. i. 7 There is some difference betwixt my jovial condition and the lunary state of madness.
3. Crescent-shaped, lunate; = lunar.
1623tr. Favine's Theat. Hon. iii. iv. 359 His..Battalions should be ordered..in a Lunarie forme, and of a Crescent. 1668Culpepper & Cole Barthol. Anat. i. xvii. 47 With their broad end they look towards the Cara, and with their sharp and lunary part they respect the Kidneys.
†4. ? Silvery. Obs. rare—1.
1615T. Tomkis Albumazar ii. iii, Hang'd round from toppe to bottome With pure white lunary Tapstry, or needle⁓worke; But if 'twere cloath of siluer, 'twere much better.
†B. n.2 Obs.
1. A kind of apparatus for solving astronomical problems; = volvelle.
14..in Dyce Skelton (1843) II. 336 Now folowith here the volvelle, that sum men clepen a lunarie.
2. ? One born under the influence of the moon.
1605Timme Quersit. i. xi. 47 Starres which have their most colde and moyst spirites, as the Saturnalls and Lunaries.
3. A crescent or half-moon.
1610W. Folkingham Art of Survey ii. vi. 58 Parallelograms, Squares, Circles, Oualls, Lunaries. |