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September|sɛpˈtɛmbə(r)|
Also 3–6 septembre, 5 semtembir, septembyr. Abbreviated Sep., Sept., in 17th c. also 7br.
[a. L. September or its deriv. F. septembre (OF. setembre), f. septem seven, this month being the seventh of the old Roman year. The native OE. name was hærfestmónað harvest month.]
a. The ninth month of the year (according to the modern reckoning).
c1050[see October]. c1290S. Eng. Leg. I. 12/392 Þe holie Rode was i-founde ase ȝe wutez, in May; He was anhauset in septembre sethþe on þe holie rode-daiȝ. 1338R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 17 Þe ferþ day of Septembre, in þe he[r]uest tide. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. ix. xvii. (Bodl. MS.), The ix⊇. moneþ hatte Septembre and haþ þat name for he is þe seuenþe moneþ after temporat rayne. c1400Rule St. Benet (Prose) 29 Til þe hali rodis dai in semtembir. 1500–20Dunbar Poems lxv. 14 Without gud lyfe all in the self dois de As Mayis flouris dois in September dry. 1509Hawes Past. Pleas. xxxi. (1555) T j b, Under our signet in our court ryall Of September the two and twenty day. 1600Surflet Country Farm iii. lxv. 581 The vttermost pilling of common walnuts..may be distilled in the moneth of September. 1628World Encomp. by Drake 108 The 26 of Sept. 1676C. Hatton Corr. (Camden) 129 Either this or another will be called to meet about 7br next. 1765Earl Coventry in Jesse Selwyn & Contemp. (1843) I. 388. I think I shall reside here till the second week in September. 1853A. R. Wallace Amazon & Rio Negro 201 On September 30th,..we again saw the opposite side of the river.
b. personified and allusively.
1596Spenser F.Q. vii. vii. 38 Next him [sc. August], September marched eeke on foote. 16..Middleton, etc. Old Law ii. ii, Simonides. When dies thy husband? Is't not July next? Eugenia. Oh! you are too hot, sir: Pray cool yourself, and take September with you. 1712Budgell Spect. No. 425 ⁋3 September, who came next, seem'd in his Looks to promise a new Spring.
c. attrib., as September day, September dew, September month; September massacres Fr. Hist., a mass killing of political prisoners in Paris on 2–6 September 1792; September thorn (see quot. 1832).
a1425Cursor M. 10998 (Trin.) Þenne bere she childe elizabeth In septembre moneth þe foure & twenty nyȝt. 1707Curios. Husb. & Gard. 136 If you have any May-Dew, or September-Dew. 1805–6Wordsworth Prelude (1959) x. 370, I thought of those September Massacres, Divided from me by a little month. 1832J. Rennie Butterfl. & Moths 105 The September Thorn (Geometra erosaria, Stephens) appears in August and September in woods and parks. 1868Morris Earthly Par. (1870) I. i. 10 It was a bright September afternoon. 1886Ruskin Præterita II. 252 The September days were yet long enough for a sunset walk. 1905Baroness Orczy Scarlet Pimpernel xi. 109 The news of the awful September massacres, and of the Reign of Terror and Anarchy. 1976Listener 23–30 Dec. 817/1 There began to seem a fatal unsteadiness in the Revolution... There had been the atrocity of the September massacres.
Hence Sepˈtembered, coloured with autumnal tints.
1866Blackmore Cradock Nowell xxvi, His honest face was Septembered with many a vintage. |