| 单词 | michaelmas was a twelvemonth |
| 释义 | > as lemmasMichaelmas was a twelvemonth b. Following and qualifying a date, in such phrases as that day (†a) twelvemonth, Michaelmas was a twelvemonth, Easter come twelvemonth: = a year before or after…(see be v. Phrases 2b, come v. 34a). ΚΠ c1300 St. Sebastian (Laud) l. 15 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 178 In þat dai a twelf-monþe ore louerd..turnde water to win. c1400 tr. Higden (Rolls) VII. 521 (MS. β) This day a twelve monthe the same houre whanne y schal dye, he schal dye. 1430–1 Rolls of Parl. IV. 368 To been arezed and paied be the Fest of Ester come tuelfemonethe next. 1473–4 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 63 For schone..fra Michelmes wes a tuelfmoneth to the xxiiij day of Nouember last bipast. 1545 in Leadam Court Requests (Seldon Soc.) 187 Abowte our Ladys day in Lent was a Twelmonethe. 1586 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1882) IV. 464 The pest wer in the town as it wes this tyme tolmowth. 1667 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1907) II. 260 [They will pay no rent] till Christmas come twelvemonth. 1674 in O. Airy Essex Papers (1890) I. 182 Discharging ye Twelvemonths Arrear..ye paymt of wch ought to have begun at Christmass last was twelve~month. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 435. ¶3 When I was at my Friend Sir Roger de Coverly's about this time Twelve-month. 1718 A. Ramsay Christ's-kirk on Green ii. 15 Till this Time Toumond. 1802 A. Seward Lett. (1811) VI. 22 The added weakness entailed upon me by the yet unrecovered accident of spring-twelvemonth. < as lemmas |
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