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by revolution
a. Cyclical recurrence, esp. of a point or period of time; the passing or duration of a (usually recurring) period of time (as a year, a season, etc.). †by revolution, with the passing of time; in due course.
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the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > [adverb] > at the proper time or in due course
timelya1225
in good timec1325
by revolutionc1425
dulya1513
accordingly1555
due-timely1606
fitly1611
fit, due, proper, just season1686
the world > time > frequency > [noun] > recurrence > of a time
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c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. 3353 (MED) Holsom frute schal þe blosmys swe, Whan tyme cometh by reuolucioun.
1481 tr. Cicero De Senectute (Caxton) sig. Fviv Betwixt the first office geuen hym in rome and the sixt consulat of this Ualerius was xlvj yeris by reuolucyon of yeris.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. Prol. f. iii All suche actis as by Reuoluciowne In theyr dayes fyll.
1553 J. Brende tr. Q. Curtius Rufus Hist. iv. f. 53v They vnderstanding very well the reuolucyons of the tyme, & their apointed courses.
1589 ‘Pasquill of England’ Returne of Pasquill sig. Diijv From the day of the date heereof, to the full terme and reuolution of seuen yeeres next ensuing.
1614 W. Camden Remaines (rev. ed.) 237 All things runne round, and as the seasons of the yeare, so mens maners haue their reuolutions.
1675 W. Dugdale Baronage Eng. I. 233 Before the revolution of one year..hapned that memorable Battle at Poytiers.
1741 I. Watts Improvem. Mind Pref. vii And did not increase half so much in the Revolution of a Year.
a1822 P. B. Shelley tr. P. Calderon Scenes from Magico Prodigioso in Posthumous Poems (1824) 383 The winged years speed o'er the intervals Of their unequal revolutions.
1865 New Eng. Farmer Nov. 494/1 Systematic recurrence is the order of nature..the ocean's ebb and flow, seasonal revolutions, and planetary periodicities.
1889 Pop. Sci. Monthly Aug. 573/1 The period for the ‘revolution’ of felling is fixed at forty years.
1949 Scrutiny 16 296 Two opening paragraphs of the Second Fit conveying the experience of a year's revolution.
1952 R. Hackforth tr. Plato Phaedrus xi. 85 Such a soul, if with three revolutions of a thousand years she has thrice chosen this philosophic life, regains thereby her wings.
1996 D. L. Porter From Deluge to Disc. iv. 99 The place that demarcates the end of one year's seasonal revolution and the beginning of another.
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