单词 | lunary |
释义 | lunaryn.1 ? 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. ΘΚΠ 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online December 2021). lunaryadj.n.2 Now rare. A. adj. 1. a. Of or pertaining to the moon; = lunar adj. 1. Also, inhabiting the moon. ΘΚΠ 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). ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. 1. A kind of apparatus for solving astronomical problems; = volvelle n. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1c1386adj.n.214.. |
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