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October|ɒkˈtəʊbə(r)|
Also 3–7 -bre; in 7 sometimes abbrev. 8bre, 8ber.
[In OE. and mod.Eng. a. L. Octōber, -ōbrem, f. octo eight (orig. the eighth month of the year); in ME. a. F. Octobre (1303 in Hatz.-Darm.), ad. L. Octōbrem, which supplanted the popular OF. oitovre. Med.L. had also the analogical form Octember, -imber, 13th c. F. Octembre, Pr. Octembre.]
1. The tenth month of the year (according to the modern reckoning).
c1050Byrhtferth's Handboc in Anglia VIII. 316 Forðon september & october habbað lunam. 1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 10382 Þe verste day of octobre þis conseil bigan. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. ix. xviii. (MS. Bodl.) lf. 95/1 Octobre..is kindelich colde and druye. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VI, 166 b, In the moneth of October this present yere. 1679Hatton Corr. (Camden) 190 The Privy Counsell wch wase adjourn'd till y⊇ 2d of 8bre. 1684Wilding in Collect. (O.H.S.) I. 254, 8ber ye 6th. 1713Swift Hor. Sat. ii. vi, 'Tis (let me see) three years and more (October next it will be four). 1848Clough Bothie vi, Bright October was come, the misty-bright October.
2. Ale brewed in October. (Common in 18th c.)
1709Steele Tatler No. 118 ⁋6 Hours he spent..in swelling himself with October. 1741Richardson Pamela (1824) I. 215 He ordered Jonathan to let the evening be passed merrily..with what everyone liked, whether wine or October. 1796H. Glasse Cookery xxii. 348 For strong October, five quarters of malt to three hogsheads, and twenty⁓four pounds of hops. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xv. III. 533 A great crowd of squires after a revel, at which doubtless neither October nor claret had been spared.
3. attrib., as October beer; October-bird, name in the West Indies for the rice-bird or bobolink; from the time of its appearance there; October Revolution, name given to the revolution in which the Provisional Government in Russia was overthrown by the Bolsheviks in 1917 on 25 October Old Style (7 November New Style); also transf.
1742Lond. & Country Brew. i. (ed. 4) 28 When Stout or October Beer is to be made. 1793B. Edwards Brit. W. Ind. (1801) I. iv. 124 note, The most delicious bird in the West Indies is the Ortalan, or October-bird. 1917Times 13 Dec. 8/4 The October revolution, having broken the power of the capitalists and landlords,..set up a ‘Government’ of People's Commissioners. 1925P. A. Sorokin Sociol. of Revolution xvii. 390 Since the latter party included the workmen, the enormous mass of soldiers.., and the peasants..the October revolution was becoming inevitable. 1932M. Eastman tr. Trotsky's Hist. Russ. Revolution I. 17 In the historic conditions which formed Russia..we ought to be able to find the premises both of the February revolution and of the October revolution which replaced it. 1952E. H. Carr Bolshevik Rev. II. xvi. 71 Even before the October revolution conditions in Petrograd..were particularly acute. 1965Guardian 14 Oct. 10/2 Russian visitors..might..conclude that our October Revolution is still to come. 1965B. Pearce tr. Preobrazhensky's New Economics 77 It would be no exaggeration to say that the most interesting and exciting question since the October revolution of 1917..is the question of what the Soviet system is. 1974tr. Sniečkus's Soviet Lithuania 56 The October Revolution opened up a new era in mankind's social progress. |