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▪ I. monthly, a. and n.|ˈmʌnθlɪ|
[f. month1 + -ly1. OE. had món(a)þlic: cf. OS. mônothlic, OHG. mânôdlîh (G. monatlich).]
A. adj.
1. a. Done or recurring once a month or every month.
1647Fuller Good Th. in Worse T. (1841) 125 We have..not care enough to keep one monthly day of humiliation. 1661Cowley Prop. Adv. Exp. Philos. Verses & Ess. (1669) 46 Two of the Professors by daily, weekly or Monethly turns shall teach the publick Schools. 1783Burke Ind. Comm. Rep. Wks. II. 260 Mr. Hastings..urges the necessity of the monthly payment of the Nabob's stipend being regularly made. 1838Lytton Alice I. iii. 26 She saw Evelyn opening the monthly parcel from London. 1889H. Campbell Causat. Disease viii. 54 Monthly migraine.
b. = menstrual a. 2.
1612Woodall Surg. Mate Wks. (1653) 68 Anise-seed..moveth urine and monethly termes. Ibid. 71 Amoniacum..provoketh the monethly courses and urine. 1806Med. Jrnl. XV. 29 About five years ago the monthly period ceased, and since that time the head-ach became universal. 1889J. M. Duncan Clin. Lect. Diseases Wom. xix. (ed 4) 152 The woman has this violent disease during her monthly time.
2. Pertaining or relating to a month; payable every month.
1572Walsingham in Digges Compl. Ambass. (1655) 213 My monethly charges [are] drawing now to two hundred pounds the moneth. 1573Reg. Privy Council Scot. II. 219 Dalie, owlklie, or monethlie wageis. 1843Borrow Bible in Spain xli, An offer of a monthly salary. 1848Glaisher in Phil. Trans. CXXXVIII. 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. 1902T. M. Lindsay Ch. & Ministry in Early Cent. iv. 125 They paid a monthly subscription to the common fund (stips menstrua).
3. Continued or enduring for a month. Now rare exc. as applied to the revolution of the moon, where the sense blends with sense 1.
1589Greene Menaphon (Arb.) 26 Minutes ioyes are monthlie woes. 1605Shakes. Lear i. i. 134 Our selfe by Monthly course..Shall our abode Make with you by due turne. 1667Milton P.L. iii. 728 The neighbouring Moon..her aide Timely interposes, and her monthly round Still ending,..in her pale dominion checks the night. 1692Bentley Boyle Lect. vi. 24 The monthly Revolutions of the Moon. 1825A. 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.
4. Special combinations, as monthly bird, the fieldfare (Swainson Prov. Names Birds 1885); monthly boat, ship, a ship on a long voyage on which the crew is paid by the month; † monthly mind = month's mind; monthly nurse, a sick-nurse who attends a woman lying in during the first month after her accouchement; monthly rose (tree), the Indian or China rose, erroneously supposed to flower every month.
1898Nautical Mag. Dec. 827 She passed the ship Libertas, evidently a good *monthly boat, jogging along the same way under close-reef topsails.
1649,1660Monthly mind [see mind n. 5 b].
1798E. 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. 1840Dickens Sk. Young Couples 21 If one of a friend's children die, the formal couple are..punctual in sending to the house..if a friend's family be increased the monthly nurse is not more attentive than they. 1844Dickens Mart. Chuz. xix, A monthly-nurse, or, as her sign-board boldly had it, ‘Midwife’.
1664Evelyn Kal. Hort., Mar. (1699) 31 Cut away some Branches of the *Monthly Rose-tree close. 1664Ibid. in Sylva 75 September... Flowers in Prime, or yet lasting... Muske Rose, and Monethly Rose. 1688R. Holme Amoury ii. 62/2 The Monthly Rose [is] of the purple colour, it bears three times in the year. 1707Mortimer Husb. (1721) II. 164 The Monthly Rose bearing Flowers only three Months in England. 1866Chamb. Encycl. VIII. 335/2 The name Monthly Rose is often given to it from the notion that it flowers every month. 1955G. 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.
1893E. I. Barra Tale Two Oceans 20 She was what the sailors called a good old *monthly ship. 1903H. Holmes Life & Adventures on Oceans 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.’
B. n.
1. pl. = menses. Now colloq.
1872J. G. Murphy Comm. Lev. xv. 25 The issue is not at the usual time of the monthlies. 1922Joyce Ulysses 361 That squinty one is delicate. Near her monthlies, I expect, makes them feel ticklish. 1960C. MacInnes Mr. Love & Justice 30 ‘Don't go,’ she said. ‘I'm sorry—I'm wrought up. I always am a bit just after my monthlies.’ 1963Observer 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’.
2. A literary periodical magazine or review published once in each month.
1833Knickerbocker I. 185 We have articles on Political Economy in the monthlys, the weeklys, and the dailys. 1849C. 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. 1856Gentl. Mag. July 7 All the monthlies above named had passed away before Cave started The Gentleman's Magazine. 1904Daily 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?’ 1973Nation Rev. (Melbourne) 31 Aug. 1464/1 The emphasis in the early days of the new monthlies and quarterlies was on strong opinion.
3. Short for monthly rose (see A 4).
1852Motley Corr. (1889) I. v. 130 Our gardener has dug up his half-hardy roses, multifloras, and monthlies.
▪ II. monthly, adv.|ˈmʌnθlɪ|
[f. month1 + -ly2.]
1. Once a month; in each or every month; month by month.
1533–4Act 25 Hen. VIII, c. 8 The poore cariers..repairynge wekely and monthely to your citee of London. 1569Reg. Privy Council Scot. II. 23 And sua furth monethlie upoun the first day of everie moneth. 1603Owen Pembrokeshire (1892) 10 He held Sessions and a Countye Courte monethlie. 1664Evelyn (title) Kalendarium Hortense, or Gard'ner's Almanack, directing what he is to do monthly throughout the Year. 1744Berkeley Let. to Prior 3 Sept., Wks. 1871 IV. 300 Two pamphlets that come out monthly. 1878Jevons Prim. Pol. Econ. 53 Clerks receive their salaries monthly.
†2. After the manner of a lunatic. Obs. rare—1.
1611Middleton & Dekker Roaring Girl v. ii, The man talkes monthly:..I see hee'l be starke mad at our next meeting. |