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单词 lunary
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lunaryn.1

/ˈl(j)uːnəri/
Forms: Also 1500s–1800s in Latin form lunaria.
Etymology: < medieval Latin lūnāria, < Latin lūna moon.
? Obsolete.
(a) The garden plant called honesty n., Lunaria biennis. (b) The fern called moonwort n., Botrychium Lunaria.Parkinson (1640 Theat. Bot. 508) says that ‘there are so many herbes called by the name of Lunaria that it would make any man wonder how so many should be called’. The magical powers referred to in quots. 1642, 1679 seem to have been ascribed to the fern.
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the world > plants > particular plants > ferns > [noun] > moonwort
lunaryc1386
moonworta1425
May grapes1548
unshoe-the-horse1635
moon-fern1659
rattlesnake fern1814
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > cruciferous flowers > white or purple flowers > honesty
lunaryc1386
shabub1548
bolbanac1578
money flower1578
penny-flower1578
honesty1597
moonwort1597
pricksong wort1597
satin1597
satin flower1597
white satin1597
c1386 G. Chaucer Canon's Yeoman's Prol. & Tale 247 And herbes koude I telle eek many oon As Egrimoyne, Valerian, and lunarie.
1477 T. Norton Ordinall of Alchimy iii, in E. Ashmole Theatrum Chem. Britannicum (1652) 39 Vervaine, Lunara [sic], and Martagon.
1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. H.iij Lunaria is of two kyndes, the one is called in latine Lunaria maior... It may be called in englishe great Lunari. Some cal it Shabub. The other kinde is called in latin Lunaria minor, which may be called in englishe litle Lunary or Maye Grapes.
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 328 The small Lunarie springeth foorth of the ground with one leafe like Adders toong.
1627 M. Drayton Nimphidia in Battaile Agincourt 127 Then sprinkles she the iuice of Rue..With nine drops of the midnight dewe, From Lunarie distilling.
1642 T. Fuller Holy State iv. v. 261 They say of the herb Lunaria ceremoniously gathered at some set times, that laid upon any lock, it makes it flie open.
1679 tr. Trag. Hist. Jetzer Pref. 2 The Fathers of that Society have the true Lunaria, which will open the strictest, strongest Locks or Fetters wherewith Conscience can be restrained.
1767 J. Abercrombie Every Man his Own Gardener (1803) 703/2 Lunaria, moon-wort or honesty.
1881 Sat. Rev. No. 1325. 374 The genus botrychium, the moon-fern or lunary, to the magical powers of which several of the Elizabethan poets bear testimony.
attributive.1591 J. Lyly Endimion iv. i. sig. F4 You knowe that on the Lunary bancke sleepeth Endimion.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

lunaryadj.n.2

/ˈl(j)uːnəri/
Etymology: < French lunaire, Latin lūnāris: see lunar adj. and n. and -ary suffix1.
Now rare.
A. adj.
1.
a. Of or pertaining to the moon; = lunar adj. 1. Also, inhabiting the moon.
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the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > moon > [adjective]
monthlyOE
lunary1561
moonya1586
lunar1626
Cynthian1632
selenian1669
selenica1832
selenitic1863
the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > moon > [adjective] > inhabiting
lunary1561
lunarian1868
1561 R. Eden tr. M. Cortés Arte Nauigation ii. vi. sig. Dvi These tymes [of conjunctions and oppositions] may be knowen..by the Ephimerides or Almanackes, or other tables, or Lunary instrumentes.
1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God xv. xiv. 550 The yeare as it is now, consumate in twelue lunary reuolutions, East-ward.
1638 Bp. J. Wilkins Discov. New World (1684) i. 9 A Lunary Eclipse.
1650 J. Howell Addit. Lett. ix. 19 in Epistolæ Ho-elianæ (ed. 2) The Moon is peepled with Selenites or Lunary men.
1651 J. F. tr. H. C. Agrippa Three Bks. Occult Philos. i. xxii. 48 There be here certain things which are Solary, and certain which are Lunary.
1690 W. Leybourn Cursus mathematicus f. 447 We are not to imagine..that the Lunary Seas, Lakes,..&c. are of the same Water with our Seas.
1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Lunary, belonging to the moon.
a1849 E. A. Poe Ulalume in Wks. (1874) I. p. lxx The limbo of lunary souls.
b. lunary month, lunary year (see lunar adj. and n. Compounds 1).
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the world > time > period > a month or calendar month > [noun] > lunar month
monthOE
lunation1398
moon1487
month of consecution in Astr1561
lunar month1594
lunary month1602
periodical month1603
month of progression1615
synodic month1669
the world > time > period > year > [noun] > reckoned in a specific way > astronomical or lunar year
astronomical year1583
lunar year1594
lunary year1602
lunisolar year1680
1602 W. Fulbecke Pandectes 4 Their [the Athenians'] twelue monethes did not exceed that number of daies which doth consist of the twelue lunarie monethes.
1642 T. Fuller Holy State i. x. 25 Some erroneously compute the long lives of the Patriarks before the flood not by solary, but lunary years, making a moneth a yeare.]
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iv. xii. 220 The Greeks observed the Lunary yeare, that is, twelve revolutions of the Moone 354. dayes. View more context for this quotation
1712 J. T. Desaguliers tr. Ozanam Geogr. 66 The Lunary Month, usually call'd Lunation.
2. transferred and figurative.
a. Monthly, menstrual.
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the world > time > period > a month or calendar month > [adjective] > monthly or occurring once a month
monthly1587
menstrual1594
mensurnal1603
mensual1611
lunar1683
lunary1822
mensal1844
1822 J. M. Good Study Med. III. 519 The ordinary return, where any thing like a regular period is established, is menstrual or lunary.
b. Lunatic.
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a1627 T. Middleton Witch (1945) iv. i. 1385 There is some difference betwixt my Ioviall Condition, and the Lunary-state of Madnes.
3. Crescent-shaped, lunate n.; = lunar adj.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > types of curvature > [adjective] > crescent-shaped
hornedc1400
semilunar1598
crescent1603
moony1605
mooned1607
half-mooned1611
lunary1623
lunar1635
semilunary1638
lunated1673
lunulated1705
moon-shaped1709
semi-lunated1726
lunular1728
lunulate1760
sickle-shaped1764
crescent-shaped1776
lunate1777
moonified1795
crescented1818
crescentic1835
semilunate1841
crescentric1851
demilune1885
crescentoid1887
1623 tr. A. Favyn Theater of Honour & Knight-hood iii. iv. 359 His..Battalions should be ordered..in a Lunarie forme, and of a Crescent.
1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) i. xvii. 47 With their broad end they look towards the Cara, and with their sharp and lunary part they respect the Kidneys.
4. ? Silvery. Obsolete. rare.
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1615 T. Tomkis Albumazar ii. iii. sig. D3v Hang'd round from toppe to bottome With pure white lunary Tapstry, or needle-worke; But if 'twere cloath of siluer, 'twere much better.
B. n.2 Obsolete.
1. A kind of apparatus for solving astronomical problems; = volvelle n.
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the world > the universe > cosmology > science of observation > astronomical instruments > sun and moon > [noun]
lunary14..
rotula1746
lunarium1786
14.. in Dyce Skelton (1843) II. 336 Now folowith here the volvelle, that sum men clepen a lunarie.
2. ? One born under the influence of the moon.
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1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke i. xi. 47 Starres which have their most colde and moyst spirites, as the Saturnalls and Lunaries.
3. A crescent or half-moon.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > types of curvature > [noun] > crescent
lunary1610
sickle1657
crescent1672
lune1709
demilunea1734
lunette1774
semi-lune1862
1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia ii. vi. 58 Parallelograms, Squares, Circles, Oualls, Lunaries.
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