单词 | mensual |
释义 | mensualadj. Now rare. Of or relating to a month; occurring or recurring monthly. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > a month or calendar month > [adjective] > monthly or occurring once a month monthly1587 menstrual1594 mensurnal1603 mensual1611 lunar1683 lunary1822 mensal1844 1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words at Mensuále Monethly, mensuall. 1794 Duke of Portland in Earl Malmesbury's Diaries & Corr. III. 124 Most averse..from withholding the mensual payments. 1848 C. D. Meigs Females & their Dis. xxxi. 403 The ovulation is marked by a natural return of the mensual hemorrhage. 1893 F. W. L. Adams New Egypt 86 These seasons must..have dominated the life of this people, and prescribed its mensual, annual, and almost diurnal process. 1919 T. S. Eliot Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service in Poems In the beginning was the Word, Superfetation of τὸ ἔν And at the mensual turn of time Produced enervate Origen. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1611 |
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