monthlyadj.n.
/ˈmʌnθli/, U.S. /ˈmənθli/ A. adj.† 1. Of or relating to the moon, lunar. Obsolete.
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the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > moon > [adjective]
monthlyOE
lunary1561
moonya1586
lunar1626
Cynthian1632
selenian1669
selenica1832
selenitic1863
OE Aldhelm Glosses (Brussels 1650) in L. Goossens Old Eng. Glosses of MS Brussels, Royal Libr. 1650 (1974) 185 Lunaris globi : monoðlices clynes.
2. Of or relating to a (particular) month; (also) payable every month.
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the world > time > period > a month or calendar month > [adjective]
monthly1543
1543 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1908) VIII. 231 Monethlie peyis of gunnaris.
1572 F. Walsingham in D. Digges Compl. Ambassador (1655) 213 My monethly charges [are] drawing now to two hundred pounds the moneth.
1662 S. Pepys Diary 30 Sept. (1970) III. 209 I have also made up..my monthly ballance; and find that..I am worth about 680l.
1687 Cramond Kirk Session II. 6 Nov. Monethly pensions.
1787 T. Jefferson Let. 7 Feb. in Papers (1955) XI. 123 To let you see that Paris is not changed in it's pursuits..I send you it's monthly history.
1843 G. Borrow Bible in Spain III. iv. 61 An offer of a monthly salary.
1848 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 138 125 On the Corrections to be applied to the Monthly Means of Meteorological Observations taken at any hour, to convert them into Mean Monthly values.
1923 R. Glazebrook Dict. Appl. Physics III. 647/2 The residuals are the differences between observed and calculated monthly sea levels at three tidal observatories.
2000 N.Y. Times 1 Jan. a18/1 Mrs. Paranina watched stoically as customers..plonked down..sums that exceeded her monthly pension of 575 rubles.
3. Of or relating to the menstrual cycle. See also sense B. 1.
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the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > menses > [adjective]
menstruala1398
menstruea1400
menstruous?a1425
monthly1568
catamenial1851
1568 T. Hill Proffitable Arte Gardening (rev. ed.) ii. lxi. f. 178v Beware, that such whiche haue their monethlye courses, doo not thenne..come neare.
1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 30/1 Ther monthlye sicknes, or menstruousnes.
1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate 99 Anise seede..moueth vrine, and monthly tearmes.
1704 tr. P. Baldæus True Descr. Malabar & Coromandel in A. Churchill & J. Churchill Coll. Voy. III. 582/1 Women, who shall not be subject to the monthly times.
1806 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 15 29 About five years ago the monthly period ceased, and since that time the head-ach became universal.
1879 J. M. Duncan Clin. Lect. Dis. Women xii. 137 The woman has this violent disease..during her monthly times.
1910 Trans. N.Y. Obstetr. Soc. 1909–11 229 They [sc. Hitchmann and Adler] divide the monthly cycle into four phases. The first phase, the postmenstruum, [etc.].
1991 Whole Earth Rev. Summer 86/1 Ritual practices were connected to the monthly bleeding of women.
4. Done, produced, or occurring once a month or every month.
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the world > time > period > a month or calendar month > [adjective] > monthly or occurring once a month
monthly1587
menstrual1594
mensurnal1603
mensual1611
lunar1683
lunary1822
mensal1844
1587 in Stanley Papers (Chetham Soc.) (1853) II. 21 A monethlye declaracion at the least thereof to be made.
1642 C. Herle Payre Compasses Church & State 1 This word Therefore..turnes us backe upon a Monethly Fast.
1647 T. Fuller Good Thoughts in Worse Times iii. xviii. 138 We have..not care enough to keep one monethly day of humiliation.
1661 A. Cowley Proposition Advancem. Exper. Philos. 33 Two of the Professors by daily, weekly, or monethly turns shall teach the publick Schools.
1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice I. i. iii. 24 She saw Evelyn opening the monthly parcel from London.
1889 H. Campbell Causation Dis. viii. 54 Monthly migraine.
1933 Shelf Appeal July 3 (heading) A monthly publication devoted to the planning, designing, manufacturing & display of the package.
1958 New Statesman 15 Mar. 332/3 One radio feature which is not yet practicable on TV is the BBC's monthly international discussion-programme, Radio Link.
2000 F. North in J. Adams et al. Girls' Night In 6 The Gathering was a monthly institution, founded instinctively three years ago when all four girls found themselves dumped.
5. Continued or lasting for a month. Now only with notion of recurrence, where the sense blends with A. 4.
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the world > time > period > a month or calendar month > [adjective] > lasting a month
monthish1540
monthly1589
menstruous1652
month-long1843
1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. B3v Minutes ioyes are monthlie woes.
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear i. 124 Our selfe by monthly course..shall our abode Make with you by due turnes. View more context for this quotation
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 728 The neighbouring Moon..her aide Timely interposes, and her monthly round Still ending,..in her pale dominion checks the night. View more context for this quotation
1692 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. vi. 24 The monthly Revolutions of the Moon.
1718 N. Rowe tr. Lucan Pharsalia 128 The Moon her monthly Course had now begun.
1752 G. G. Beekman Let. 31 July in Beekman Mercantile Papers (1956) I. 146 Wee Desire you be as Expeditious as Possible as you know the Vessel is on monthly hire.
1825 A. R. C. Dallas Prelim. Statem. in R. C. Dallas Corr. Byron I. p. lxxx It is truly absurd to see how all Lord Byron's monthly friends prostitute the word intimacy.
1985 R. Whelan Robert Capa xxi. 165 He had wangled monthly extensions of his visa.
B. n. † 3. = monthly rose n. at Compounds. Obsolete.
1. In singular and (more usually) plural. The menstrual discharge; a menstrual period. Cf. menses n. Now colloquial.
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the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > menses > [noun]
monthlyeOE
menstruuma1398
flowerc1400
menstrue?a1425
women's evilc1450
menstruosity1503
courses1563
monthly time1564
reds1568
month courses1574
purgation1577
women's courses1577
month1578
menses1597
menstruals1598
flourish1606
nature1607
fluors1621
mois1662
period1690
catamenia1764
turn1819
visitor1980
eOE Cleopatra Gloss. in W. G. Stryker Lat.-Old Eng. Gloss. in MS Cotton Cleopatra A.III (Ph.D. diss., Stanford Univ.) (1951) 306 Menstrua, ða monaðlecan.
OE tr. Pseudo-Apuleius Herbarium (Vitell.) (1984) 27 (table of contents) Wiþ þa monoðlican to astyrigenne.
?a1200 ( tr. Pseudo-Apuleius Herbarium (Harl. 6258B) cl. 193 Ðeos sylfe wyrt..wyfa manoðlican astirað.
1872 J. G. Murphy Crit. Comm. Leviticus xv. 25 The issue is not at the usual time of the monthlies.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xiii. [Nausicaa] 351 That squinty one is delicate. Near her monthlies, I expect, makes them feel ticklish.
1963 Observer 29 Sept. 31/5 One mother..said she had told him most of them [sc. the facts of life]—‘even about girls and the monthlies’.
1988 G. Naylor Mama Day 72 Her monthly is six weeks overdue.
2. A magazine or journal published once a month.In quot. 1796 probably short for The Monthly Magazine.
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society > communication > journalism > journal > periodical > [noun] > by frequency of publication
quarterly1818
trimestrial1824
anniversary1827
monthly1830
tri-weekly1832
hebdomadal1835
fortnightly1865
three-monthly1886
bi-weekly1890
seasonal1895
bi-monthly1926
1796 S. T. Coleridge Let. in Biogr. Lit. (1847) App. II. 370 The Monthly has cataracted panegyric on me.]
1830 Lady Morgan France 1829–30 II. 420 I call on the testimony of the guests of that enjoyable day..in favour of fidelity of the details, should they ever be disputed by..‘Monthlies,’ ‘Quarterlies,’ or ‘Lettres addressées à Miladi Morgan.’
1849 C. Brontë Let. 15 Nov. in C. Shorter Brontës: Life & Lett. (1908) II. 83 I feel that the fiat for which I wait does not depend on newspapers... The monthlies and quarterlies will pronounce it.
1866 Rural Amer. (Utica, N.Y.) 1 Jan. 1/1 Our pages are much larger than those of any other quarto,..and contain,..nearly double the reading that is to be found in any monthly.
1868 W. H. Burt Monogr. on Ustilago Madis 2 (advt.) American Homœopathic Observer, A medical monthly of 50 pages... We aim to publish the largest, cheapest and best monthly in the United States.
1904 Daily Chron. 12 Mar. 4/7 ‘Can you get me a copy of the Apocrypha?’ he asked... ‘I can't quite remember, sir’, she replied; ‘is it a weekly—or a monthly?’
1936 A. Tate Ess. Four Decades (1969) 50 The monthly can command first choice of the work of writers who would otherwise put their best effort into the more considered..performance demanded by the more critical journal.
1989 Media Week 26 May 28/2 Since it is a monthly the tournaments reports are out of date by the time it comes out.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > rose and allied flowers > rose > types of rose flower or bush
summer rosea1456
French rose1538
damask rose?a1547
musk rose1559
province1562
winter rose1577
Austrian brier1590
rose of Provence1597
velvet rose1597
damasine-rose1607
Provence rose1614
blush-rose1629
maiden's blush1648
monthly rose tree1664
Provinsa1678
York and Lancaster rose1688
cinnamon rose1699
muscat rose1707
cabbage rose1727
China-rose1731
old-fashioned rose1773
moss rose1777
swamp rose1785
alba1797
Cherokee rose1804
Macartney rose1811
shepherd's rose1818
multiflora1820
prairie rose1822
Boursault1826
Banksian rose1827
maiden rose1827
moss1829
Noisette1829
seven sisters rose1830
Dundee rambler1834
Banksia rose1835
Chickasaw rose1835
Bourbon1836
climbing rose1836
green rose1837
hybrid China1837
Jaune Desprez1837
Lamarque1837
perpetual1837
pillar rose1837
rambler1837
wax rose1837
rugosa1840
China1844
Manetti1846
Banksian1847
remontant1847
gallica1848
hybrid perpetual1848
Persian Yellow1848
pole rose1848
monthly1849
tea rose1850
quarter sessions rose1851
Gloire de Dijon1854
Jacqueminot1857
Maréchal Niel1864
primrose1864
jack1867
La France1868
tea1869
Ramanas rose1876
Japanese rose1883
polyantha1883
old rose1885
American Beauty1887
hybrid tea1890
Japan rose1895
roselet1896
floribunda1898
Zéphirine Drouhin1901
Penzance briar1902
Dorothy Perkins1903
sweetheart1905
wichuraiana1907
mermaid1918
species rose1930
sweetheart rose1936
peace1944
shrub rose1948
1849 A. B. Strong Amer. Flora III. 105 The earliest flowering Rose is the Monthly, which..will sometimes flower in the beginning of April.
1852 J. L. Motley Let. 13 Apr. in Corr. (1889) I. v. 130 Our gardener has dug up his half-hardy roses, multifloras, and monthlies.
1875 R. Hill & F. Hill What we saw in Austral. xiii. 237 Roses of all kinds flourish; the old-fashioned monthly..makes beautiful hedges.
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monthly bird n. Scottish the fieldfare.
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1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 6 Fieldfare... Monthly bird..(Forfar).
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > [noun] > vessel according to payment or rations of crew
monthly ship1871
weekly boat1888
monthly boat1898
pound and pinter1938
1898 Nautical Mag. Dec. 827 She passed the ship Libertas, evidently a good monthly boat, jogging along the same way under close-reef topsails.
monthly meeting n. a meeting held once a month; spec. (also Monthly Meeting) (a meeting of) the administrative body of a local congregation of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).
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society > faith > church government > council > Quaker > [noun]
monthly meeting1641
quarterly meeting1675
Yearly Meeting?1680
1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 17 To solemnize some religious monthly meeting different from the Sabbath.
1666 G. Fox Coll. Christian Epist. (1698) 236 And read this in your Monthly Meetings, when you are gathered together.
1785 Bk. Discipline New Eng. Yearly Meeting Soc. Friends 39 Overseers are to render account of their service to the monthly meeting at least once a quarter.
1917 E. Grubb What is Quakerism? v. 99 These officers [sc. Overseer and Elder] are appointed, triennially, by the Monthly Meetings.
1991 H. Barty-King Worst Poverty 129 When Quaker tea merchant Joseph Fry went bankrupt in 1828 his monthly meeting disowned him.
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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
1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar iii. 112 In the monethly minds and anniversary commemorations.
1660 Bp. J. Taylor Ductor Dubitantium I. ii. ii. 361 Upon the Anniversary, or the monethly, or weekly minds.
monthly nurse n. a nurse who attends a mother during the first month after childbirth.
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the world > health and disease > healing > healer > nurse > [noun] > post-natal nurse
monthly nurse1798
month-nurse1810
1798 E. Wynne Diary 9 Mar. (1952) 294 These ladies say I shall very soon be brought to bed. I am exceedingly well, had the monthly nurse in the house.
1986 J. Huxley Leaves of Tulip Tree v. 95 I also had a kind monthly nurse who, however, was a disciple of that monster, Dr. Truby King.
monthly rose n. now historical any of several old roses with a remontant habit, esp. (originally) Rosa × damascena var. semperflorens, (later) the China rose, R. chinensis, formerly supposed to flower every month.
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1664 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense 73 in Sylva August..Flowers in Prime..Musk-Rose, Monethly Rose.
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (1721) II. 164 The Monthly Rose bearing Flowers only three Months in England.
1866 Chambers's Encycl. VIII. 335/2 The name Monthly Rose is often given to it from the notion that it flowers every month.
1955 G. S. Thomas Old Shrub Roses ix. 60 There was one ancient Rose which under favourable conditions of high culture and special pruning often produced a second crop of flowers in the autumn. This Rose was known in England as the Monthly Rose.
1997 Countryman Spring 30 The old village residents..pointed out the sweet rocket, the white sneezewort and the monthly rose—‘Old Blush China’—flowering beautifully in May.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > rose and allied flowers > rose > types of rose flower or bush
summer rosea1456
French rose1538
damask rose?a1547
musk rose1559
province1562
winter rose1577
Austrian brier1590
rose of Provence1597
velvet rose1597
damasine-rose1607
Provence rose1614
blush-rose1629
maiden's blush1648
monthly rose tree1664
Provinsa1678
York and Lancaster rose1688
cinnamon rose1699
muscat rose1707
cabbage rose1727
China-rose1731
old-fashioned rose1773
moss rose1777
swamp rose1785
alba1797
Cherokee rose1804
Macartney rose1811
shepherd's rose1818
multiflora1820
prairie rose1822
Boursault1826
Banksian rose1827
maiden rose1827
moss1829
Noisette1829
seven sisters rose1830
Dundee rambler1834
Banksia rose1835
Chickasaw rose1835
Bourbon1836
climbing rose1836
green rose1837
hybrid China1837
Jaune Desprez1837
Lamarque1837
perpetual1837
pillar rose1837
rambler1837
wax rose1837
rugosa1840
China1844
Manetti1846
Banksian1847
remontant1847
gallica1848
hybrid perpetual1848
Persian Yellow1848
pole rose1848
monthly1849
tea rose1850
quarter sessions rose1851
Gloire de Dijon1854
Jacqueminot1857
Maréchal Niel1864
primrose1864
jack1867
La France1868
tea1869
Ramanas rose1876
Japanese rose1883
polyantha1883
old rose1885
American Beauty1887
hybrid tea1890
Japan rose1895
roselet1896
floribunda1898
Zéphirine Drouhin1901
Penzance briar1902
Dorothy Perkins1903
sweetheart1905
wichuraiana1907
mermaid1918
species rose1930
sweetheart rose1936
peace1944
shrub rose1948
1664 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense Mar. (1699) 31 Cut away some Branches of the Monthly Rose-tree close.
monthly ship n. now rare a ship on a long voyage on which the crew is paid by the month.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > [noun] > vessel according to payment or rations of crew
monthly ship1871
weekly boat1888
monthly boat1898
pound and pinter1938
1871 Overland Monthly Feb. 164 The Baboo was what the sailors call a ‘good old monthly ship’, with bows as bluff as those of a Dutch galiot.
1903 H. Holmes Life & Adventures 34 ‘I like a good monthly ship,’ remarks a seaman standing by. ‘In these racehorses a fellow's dead horse is hardly worked out before you think of getting into port again.’
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
monthlyadv.
/ˈmʌnθli/, U.S. /ˈmənθli/ 1. Once a month; every month; from month to month.
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the world > time > period > a month or calendar month > [adverb]
monthly1463
month after montha1591
per mensem1600
month by month1611
1463 in E. W. W. Veale Great Red Bk. Bristol: Text Pt. II (1938) 66 To make thereof levy and accompt to the Maire, Sherref, and Bailliffs..monethly or quarterly, atte thayre elleccyon.
1512 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1902) IV. 275 Takand monethtlie for his wagis feis and expensis five li. xvj s.
1569 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1878) 1st Ser. II. 23 And sua furth monethlie upoun the first day of everie moneth.
1603 G. Owen Descr. Penbrokshire (1892) 10 He held Sessions and a Countye Courte monethlie.
1664 J. Evelyn (title) Kalendarium Hortense, or Gard'ner's Almanack, directing what he is to do monthly throughout the year.
1731 G. Medley tr. P. Kolb Present State Cape Good-Hope I. 355 His Excellency is likewise allow'd by the company for his Household, Monthly..1 Aum of African Wine; 8 Quarts of Brandy; 16 of Canary.
1744 G. Berkeley Let. 3 Sept. in Wks. (1871) IV. 300 Two pamphlets that come out monthly.
1839 Port Phillip Patriot (Melbourne) 5 Sept. 10/1 Sawyers and splitters..have now an opportunity of consigning their labour for sale monthly or otherwise.
1878 W. S. Jevons Polit. Econ. 53 Clerks receive their salaries monthly.
1925 St. Nicholas Nov. 92/1 These traffic reports are printed monthly in the league's official organ.
1964 J. Mitchell White Father i. 11 He had to report monthly on births, deaths, sickness..and other matters of interest to the administration.
2000 Times 7 Aug. i. 13/5 (advt.) It's the only fund which currently offers a super 8%..p.a. income, paid monthly.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [adverb] > madly
woodlyc1000
madlyc1225
out of (by, from, of) wit or one's wit1470–85
bedlamlya1569
bedlamlike1576
distractedly1608
madling1608
monthly1611
brainsicklya1616
maddinglya1625
frenzilya1688
crazily1814
insanely1828
dementedly1844
off1866
hippomaniacally1876
pathologically1925
manically1927
dottily1937
feyly1959
kookily1968
nutso1980
1611 T. Middleton & T. Dekker Roaring Girle sig. L4 The man talkes monthly:..I see hee'l be starke mad at our next meeting.
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