单词 | twelvemonth |
释义 | twelvemonthn. 1. a. A period of twelve months; a year. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > year > [noun] wintereOE yeareOE yearOE yearOE yearOE twelvemonthc1275 a time and times and half a timec1384 foil1481 zodiacc1560 twelve moons1609 suns1743 outfit1791 snow1825 season1827 yr1880 1038 Charter of Harold Harefoot in Kemble Cod. Dipl. IV. 56 Wel neh twelf monað. a1131 Anglo-Saxon Chron. ann. 1128 Wær it tweolf monð oððe mare. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 161 Iþeforme tweolf moneð þet ha bigon ancre lif.] c1275 Passion our Lord 86 in Old Eng. Misc. 39 Heore muchele feste Of alle þe twelfmoneþ þat wes þe alre meste. a1300 Cursor Mundi 1917 A tuelfmoth [v.rr. twelf-monþe, tuelmoneth, tweluemoneþ] was gan. 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xiii. 337 A feure, Þat taketh me al a twelf-moneth. 1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur vii. xix. 242 A twelue moneth will soone be done. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 813 A tweluemonth and a day. View more context for this quotation 1640 R. Brome Antipodes sig. D2 He has not drunke so deepe a draught this twelvmonth. 1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. ix. 141 A lease for ‘twelve months’ is only for forty eight weeks; but if it be for ‘a twelvemonth’ in the singular number, it is good for the whole year. 1876 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. (rev. ed.) IV. xv. 420 Not a twelve-month passed away without a massacre of the pioneers. b. Following and qualifying a date, in such phrases as that day (†a) twelvemonth, Michaelmas was a twelvemonth, Easter come twelvemonth: = a year before or after…(see be v. Phrases 2b, come v. 34a). ΚΠ c1300 St. Sebastian (Laud) l. 15 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 178 In þat dai a twelf-monþe ore louerd..turnde water to win. c1400 tr. Higden (Rolls) VII. 521 (MS. β) This day a twelve monthe the same houre whanne y schal dye, he schal dye. 1430–1 Rolls of Parl. IV. 368 To been arezed and paied be the Fest of Ester come tuelfemonethe next. 1473–4 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 63 For schone..fra Michelmes wes a tuelfmoneth to the xxiiij day of Nouember last bipast. 1545 in Leadam Court Requests (Seldon Soc.) 187 Abowte our Ladys day in Lent was a Twelmonethe. 1586 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1882) IV. 464 The pest wer in the town as it wes this tyme tolmowth. 1667 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1907) II. 260 [They will pay no rent] till Christmas come twelvemonth. 1674 in O. Airy Essex Papers (1890) I. 182 Discharging ye Twelvemonths Arrear..ye paymt of wch ought to have begun at Christmass last was twelve~month. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 435. ¶3 When I was at my Friend Sir Roger de Coverly's about this time Twelve-month. 1718 A. Ramsay Christ's-kirk on Green ii. 15 Till this Time Toumond. 1802 A. Seward Lett. (1811) VI. 22 The added weakness entailed upon me by the yet unrecovered accident of spring-twelvemonth. 2. twelvemonth('s) mind: a commemoration of a deceased person by celebration of masses, etc. a year after (or annually on the anniversary of) the day of his death or funeral. Cf. month's mind n. Obsolete exc. Historical. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > obsequies > commemorative ceremonies > [noun] > religious or mass > one year after death annuala1400 year's minda1400 twelvemonth('s) mind1428 year-time1467 annuary?1548 1428 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 82 Y wolle þat myne executours, vij yere after my decesse, holdyn twelf monthes mynde. 1538 Accts. St. John's Hosp., Canterbury (Canterbury Cathedral Archives: CCA-U13/4) For wast of tapers att ye twelmonths mynde iiij d. 1572 R. Harrison tr. L. Lavater Of Ghostes iii. x. 211 Rites instituted by the comaundement of wandring soules, as Masses for the dead, vigils, prayers, and tweluemonths minds. 1829 J. B. Heath Some Acct. Worshipful Company of Grocers (1869) 232 A solemn obiit anniversary, or twelve months mind. 3. attributive. (In quot. 1536 referring to the ‘twelvemonth's mind’: see 2.) ΚΠ a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 7339 Þai wit-in a tuel-moth stage, War put vte o þair heritage. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 21038 Þar he was in a tuelmoth [Trin. Cambr. twelmoneþ] quile. 1536 in J. W. Clay Testamenta Eboracensia (1902) VI. 53 At the daye of my berelay, at my vij daye, and at my twelve moneth daye. 1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 649 Engaging for twelve-month terms of work. DerivativesΘΚΠ the world > animals > family unit > [noun] > young animal > yearling yearinga1464 yearling1465 twelvemonthing1551 year-old1583 winterling1782 wintering1825 1551 in Longman's Mag. Apr. (1905) 531 viii twelmonthyng bullocks..a twelmonting maire colt. 1600 in W. F. Shaw Mem. Eastry (1870) 226 Item vij kine iij towyering beasts and fower twelve monthings. 1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. vii. 261 A Cow-calf..had another..3 weeks and some odd days, before she was a Twelve-monthing. ˈtwelvemonthly adv. every twelve months, yearly, annually. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > year > [adverb] yearlyeOE by yeara1382 year by yeara1393 from year to yearc1400 per annum1531 strawberry-wise1548 annuallya1555 per ann.1610 anniversarilya1631 twelvemonthly1847 1847 H. Miller First Impressions Eng. x. 184 Six thousand loads of the young pole-wood..being used twelvemonthly. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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