单词 | neomenia |
释义 | neomenian. Ancient History. Now rare. In ancient Greek and Jewish history: the time of the new moon, the beginning of the lunar month. Also: the festival held at that time; = Rosh Chodesh n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > Jewish seasons and feasts > festival of new moon > [noun] new moonOE calendsa1382 neomenyc1384 neomeniaa1398 the world > time > period > a month or calendar month > [noun] > lunar month > periods within or phases of the moon full moonOE new moonOE waningc1000 new of the moona1398 quarter?a1425 plenilune?a1475 neomeniaa1535 lunationc1549 interlune1561 wane1563 neomeny1569 dark of the moon1591 month of apparition1594 dark moon1615 plenilunium1615 moon1709 interlunation1813 quartering1880 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f.127 Þis feste þat hatte neomenia..was swiþe highe and holy. a1535 T. More Treat. Passion in Wks. (1557) 1308/1 Amonge the Jewes Neomenia the fyrste daye of the new mone nexte after the Equynoctiall in vere..is the fyrste daye of the yere. 1655 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. I. iii. 2 The Neomenia of Hecatombæon did..never precede the solstice. a1681 G. Wharton Fasts & Festivals in Wks. (1683) 2 The Neomeniæ, or Feasts of New-Moons, Celebrated the First day of every Month, initiating with the New-Moons. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Some say, the Jews reckon'd two kinds of Neomeniæ, or New Moons. 1744 J. Ralph Astrologer ii. i. 25 Beginning our Invocation to the Neomenia, then proceeding on to the Dicotima, and ending with the Pleni Lunium, will fully complete our Metamorphosis. 1876 S. Birch Rede Lect. Egypt 26 The battle of Megiddo, fought..in the neomenia of that month. 1888 tr. J. E. Renan Hist. People Israel I. 86 It will become the clarion of the neomenia and the trumpet of judgment. 1998 M. Cahill First Commentary on Mark 80 (note) The new moon occurs in total darkness. Eucherius explains ‘neomenia’ as new moon. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1398 |
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