单词 | aprilian |
释义 | Aprilianadj. Now rare. Of or characteristic of April. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > a month or calendar month > specific months > [adjective] martialc1500 freeze-pot1557 sextile1560 Martian1623 sextilian1623 Aprilian1639 Septembrian1800 Septemberish1851 Aprilesque1856 1639 L. Lawrence tr. San Pedro de Diego Small Treat. betwixt Arnalte & Lucenda 16 Her Virgin bosome branch'd with swelling veines, Distil'd from Heaven in Aprillian raines. 1893 Atlantic Monthly Apr. 536 Special localities are not indicated; but Aprilian caprice permits them to be the shore of a Western lake [etc.]. 1902 Daily Chron. 24 Mar. 8/1 Rain of a spitefully Aprilian character. 1904 B. Carman Songs Northern Garden (1905) 10 Fear not the mighty instinct, The great Aprilian Creed; The House of Spring is open And furnished for thy need. 1948 A. Stringer Red Wine of Youth iv. 49 The Aprilian melancholy of youth may be far from the autumnal gloom of age, but to dismiss the poet's addiction to morbidity as mere play acting would be as unsound. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1639 |
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