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December|dɪˈsɛmbə(r)|
Also 4–6 -bre, 4 -bir, descembre, 5 decembyr, 6 desember. Abbreviated Dec.
[a. OF. décembre, dezembre, ad. L. December, f. decem ten, this being originally the tenth month of the Roman year. The meaning of -ber in this and the names of the three preceding months is uncertain.]
1. The twelfth and last month of the year according to the modern reckoning; that in which the winter solstice occurs in the northern hemisphere.
[a1000Menologium 220 (Gr.) Þænne folcum bringð morᵹen, to mannum monað to tune Decembris..ærra Jula.] 1297R. Glouc. (1724) 408 Þe endlefþe day of December þe toun hii wonne so. a1300Cursor M. 24916 (Cott.) Þat moneth þat man clepes..Decembre [v.r. -ber, -bir, descembre]. 1460Plumpton Corr. (Camden) 20 Written at London 9 of December. 1573Tusser Husb., December's husbandrie, O dirtie December For Christmas remember. 1593T. Morley Madrigals, ‘Aprill is my mistris face’, Within her bosom is September, But in her heart a cold December. a1643Cartwright Ordinary i. ii, Don't you see December in her face? 1775N. Wraxall Tour N. Europe 88 The weather, which..was become in a few hours as cold and piercing as our Decembers. 1805Scott Last Minstr. i. xxi, Alike to him was time or tide, December's snow or July's pride. 1841T. H. Key in Smith Dict. Antiq. s.v. Calendar, Roman, The winter solstice at Rome, in the year 46 b.c., occurred on the 24th of December of the Julian Calendar. 1886M. E. Braddon Under Red Flag vi, The Man of December and Sedan—it was thus Blanquists and Internationals spoke of the late Emperor [Napoleon III]—was dethroned.
2. attrib. and Comb. December moth (see quots.).
1593Shakes. Rich. II, i. iii. 298 Or wallow naked in December snow. a1679Earl of Orrery Guzman iii, Were our Hearts as much mortified as those December-Lovers Looks! 1832J. Rennie Consp. Butterfl. & M. 38 The December Moth (Pœcilocampa Populi, Stephens) appears in December. 1863Kingsley Water Bab. iv. (ed. 2) 160 Pleasant December days. 1907R. South Moths Brit. Isles I. 113 (heading) The December Moth (Pœcilocampa populi). 1945V. Temple Butterflies & Moths in Brit. Pl. 80 (caption) Caterpillar of the December Moth.
Hence Deˈcember v. nonce-wd., (a) trans. to give the character of December to; (b) intr. to celebrate December (as the time of Christmas festivities). Deˈcemberish a., † Deˈcemberly a., resembling December in dreariness and darkness. Deˈcembrist, one connected in some specific way with this month; see quot. 1882.
1876J. Ellis Cæsar in Egypt 332 Now balls are deserted, and plays unremember'd, And all the May joys prematurely December'd. 1888Times (Weekly Ed.) 7 Dec. 7/1 The Cabinet was seeking a pretext for ‘Decembering’. 1795Burns Let. to Mrs. Dunlop 15 Dec., As I am in a complete Decemberish humour, gloomy, sullen, stupid. 1765Sterne Tr. Shandy VIII. ix, In the many bleak and Decemberly nights of a seven years widowhood. 1882H. Lansdell Through Siberia II. 2 Certain of them called ‘Decembrists’, who in December 1825 tried to raise a revolt among the soldiers of Nicolas, and deprive him of his throne. |