† month mindn.
Obsolete.
= month's mind n. 1.
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the world > life > death > obsequies > commemorative ceremonies > [noun] > religious or mass > one month after death
month's day1449
month mind1450
month's mind1466
thirty-day1479
monthly mind1649
trental1659
1450 in A. Clark Lincoln Diocese Documents (1914) 43 For to say placebo & dirige with masse of Requiem..oonys at my departyng and efte at my moneth mynde.
1466 in F. W. Weaver Somerset Medieval Wills (1901) 210 (MED) I will that there be at my dirige, mass, and moneth mynde noon other tapers ne Candelstikkes but such as be of the same chirch.
1546 T. Langley tr. P. Vergil Abridgem. Notable Worke vi. viii. 128 In England the custome is to kepe the thirty daie or moneth mynde with like Obites, as wer dooen on the buriall daies. [L. Apud Anglos hoc fit vigesimo nono die postquam mortuus est sepultus.]
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 522 They doe offer sacrifice euery 20 day of the Moone, and these moneth-mindes they keep as holy-daies.
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