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hibernal, a.|haɪˈbɜːnəl|
Also hy-.
[ad. L. hībernāl-is wintry, f. hībernus wintry.]
1. Of, pertaining to, or proper to winter; appearing in winter.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iv. xiii. 225 [The dog-star] should rather manifest its warming power in the winter, when it remaines conjoyned with the Sun in its Hybernall conversion. 1799Spirit Pub. Jrnls. (1800) III. 129 To sleep away the hibernal months. 1819Montgomery Reign of Spring in Greenland, etc. (ed. 2) 211 They meet the pale hybernal sun. 1870Hooker Stud. Flora 365 Leucojum æstivum; leaves hibernal.
2. fig. Pertaining to the winter of life; late.
a1626Bp. Andrewes Serm. (1856) I. 356 We have lost our regard so even of judgements and all, as neither vernal nor hibernal repentance we bring forth. |