yearlyadj.
/ˈjɪəli/, /ˈjəːli/, U.S. /ˈjɪrli/ Chiefly attributive.
1.
a. Of or relating to the year; (now more usually) relating to or covering a period of a year (cf. annual adj. 3b).
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the world > time > period > year > [adjective]
yearlyOE
OE Ælfric Hexameron (Hatton 115) 50 Næron nane tida on ðam gearlican getæle ærðamðe se ælmihtiga Scyppend gesceop þa tunglan to gearlicum tidum.
1447 O. Bokenham Lives of Saints (Arun.) (1938) l. 4113 Þow she yung were by yerely computacyoun, Yet in hir soule she had suffycyent age.
1565 T. Stapleton tr. Bede Hist. Church Eng. iv. xviii. 131 He obtained also to haue with him, the foresayd Abbot Ihon into England, to the entente he might teache in his monasterie the yearly course and order of singing.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage To Rdr. The naturall Philosophers may obserue..the varietie of heauenly influence, of the yearely seasons.
1623 G. de Malynes Center of Circle of Commerce iv. 109 Lesse then one quarter of this summe shall buy in the Indies the proportion of the yearely consumption thereof [sc. of spices and indigo].
1690–1700 Order of Hospitalls sig. Fvv Yow shall kepe an Yerely-booke for Collections, Legacies and Benevolences.
1718 H. Coxwell tr. Horace Odes iv. vi. 105 That prospers the Increase upon the Ground, and brings the fruitful yearly Seasons round.
1812 2nd Rep. Public Rec. Ireland 104 in Parl. Papers 1812–13 XV. 1 The Recognizances..are regularly arranged in yearly bundles according to their Receipts.
1877 19th Cent. Nov. 594 The south-west monsoon..supplies 17 inches of the yearly rainfall of 48½.
1907 L. Carrier Profitable Tenant Dairy Farm 8 In this way a herd has been developed whose yearly record averages nearly 7,000 pounds of milk per cow.
1980 C. L. Doane et al. Salt Lake Rose Park Stake Hist. ii. 191 The monthly issues were often bound into yearly collections and faithfully preserved in libraries.
2013 MailOnline (Nexis) 21 June It doesn't work like that, they do yearly contracts. But if they want me back, I will definitely be in.
b. spec. Of rent, income, wages, etc.: calculated by or relating to a period of a year.In some quots. with admixture of sense 2b.
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1437 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Jan. 1437 §26. m. 5 No persone of lesse suffisantee of freehold then of the yerly value of .xx.li.
1444–6 in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 40 A lawfull estate to þe seid William of londes, tenementz, rentz, and seruysez to þe yerly value of xl li.
1524 Act 14 & 15 Hen. VIII c. 3 §8 Landes and tenementes to the yerely value of xx. s.
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry V iv. i. 295 A hundred men haue I in yearly pay.
1650 Weekly Intelligencer No. 1 2 Nor shall any person be charged with a Dragoon Horse and Arms, unlesse he hath the yearly revenue of two hundred marks.
1712 J. Hughes Spectator No. 316. ⁋6 The yearly Rent which gives the Value to the Estate.
1734 in Acts & Laws Colony of Rhode-Island (1745) 180 A faithful and indifferent Appraisal of the yearly Damage done to the Person complaining.
a1817 J. Austen Northanger Abbey (1818) II. i. 17 A living..of about four hundred pounds yearly value, was to be resigned to his son. View more context for this quotation
1895 R. H. Davis & C. D. Gibson About Paris iv. 175 A group of Rastaqouères, who have spent a clerk's yearly income in decorating their victoria.
1954 Econ. Jrnl. 64 731 For 1952/53 the weighted yearly average price was actually slightly lower than 70/-.
1991 Martha Stewart Living July 33/1 But 90 percent of yearly revenue goes back into the business.
2.
a. That occurs once a year or every year; that is done, produced, or given once a year or every year. Cf. annual adj. 5.bi-yearly, five-yearly, twice-yearly, etc.: see the first element.
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the world > time > period > year > [adjective] > yearly or annual
yearlyOE
annal1503
annual1529
anniversary1552
solennic1623
quotannal1651
solennial1656
quotannual1658
perennial1845
year-to-year1852
quotennial1878
OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) xxx. 433 Ðes freolsdæig is us gearlic, ac he is heofonwarum singallic.
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 216 The seid solempne ȝeerli goyng bi ij. tymes in ech ȝeer.
1531 in J. W. Clay Testamenta Eboracensia (1902) VI. 24 I will that ther be a yerlie obit done.
1561 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1888) I. 115 The ȝierly celebratioun of the Pasche day.
a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) iii. i. 7 The yearely course that brings this day about. View more context for this quotation
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis v, in tr. Virgil Wks. 329 And yearly Games may spread the Gods renown.
a1721 M. Prior Misc. Wks. (1740) II. 123 The circling months begin this day, To run their yearly ring.
1761 S. Johnson Let. 10 June (1992) I. 199 The Artists have instituted a yearly exhibition of pictures and statues.
a1856 H. Miller Testimony of Rocks (1857) xii. 470 In some of the fossil-trees these yearly rings are of great breadth.
1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest II. vii. 85 An officer, who provided them with daily food and with a yearly change of raiment.
1963 K. H. Seibel Joyful Christmas Craft Bk. iii. 56 Long before the birth of Christ, the Persians had a yearly celebration of the Yole Log.
2005 Voice 4 July (24 Seven section) 9/4 In a remote mountain range six girlfriends meet for their yearly adventure, a caving trip into the arteries of the earth.
b. spec. Of a payment or charge: paid or incurred once a year or every year.
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OE Wulfstan Homily: To Eallum Folce (Tiber. A.iii) in A. S. Napier Wulfstan (1883) 116 Ælcne mann ic bidde, þe ænigne Godes ege hæbbe, þæt he gelæste Gode þa gerihtu, þe him to gebyreþ on gerlicum rihtum.
?1406 T. Hoccleve La Mâle Règle l. 421 in E. P. Hammond Eng. Verse between Chaucer & Surrey (1927) 66/1 Of my yeerly x li. in theschequeer.
c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 2406 (MED) Þai..ȝerely tribute him to geue ȝapely him hetis.
1507 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 25 Yff it happ ye said yerly ferme of v marke..to be behynd..by a monithe vnpaid.
1577 in F. G. Emmison Essex Wills (1987) (modernized text) IV. 183 My wife..shall have..the occupation of the house wherein I dwell,..paying my overseers the yearly rent of a peppercorn if demanded.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 318 Having received an yearely pension of Lewis the eleauenth.
1683 J. Dalrymple Decisions Lords of Council & Session I. 554 The Laird of Wamphray, being due a yearly Annuity to his Good-mother, the Lady Wamphray.
1747 R. Connak Coll. Names Princes Eng. 59 [They] are to pay the Stewards, Bailiffs and other Officers their yearly Fees.
1772 S. Denne & W. Shrubsole Hist. Rochester 91 A yearly exhibition was to be paid to four scholars.
1855 C. Kingsley Theseus in Heroes ii. 237 O people and King of Athens, where is your yearly tribute?
1932 Polit. Sci. Q. 47 591 The Industriebank gets ½ of one per cent and the Rentenbank 1/ 10 of one per cent of the yearly mortgage payments.
1980 Kiplinger's Personal Finance June 43/1 If you own a non-dividend paying policy, you won't receive a yearly dividend but your premium may be lower.
2004 onearth Summer 11/2 Car-rental services like Zipcars, which allows members to pay a yearly fee and then hourly rates for off-and-on use.
3. Of a worker: engaged or hired by the year. Now chiefly historical.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to conditions > [adjective] > hired for specific period of time
day-labouring1577
semestrial1701
yearly1707
seasonal1904
perm1916
1611 Bible (King James) Lev. xxv. 53 As a yeerely hired seruant shall he be with him. View more context for this quotation]
1707 Ess. Effectual Way to recruit Army sig. Fv If taken by the Constables as loose Fellows afterwards, the Master protects them, as being his yearly Servant.
1793 T. Ruggles Hist. Poor I. v. 41 This act of parliament also regulated the wages of yearly servants, in husbandry.
1842 tr. C. de Gourcy Narr. Agric. Tour 46/2 His labourers, or yearly workmen, that are married, have a cow between two.
1891 Daily News 28 Mar. 2/6 Wages had gone up 5l. a year for yearly men.
1946 Decisions Comptroller Gen. U.S. 24 124 All employees whose wages were fixed..by wage boards or similar administrative authority, including monthly or yearly employees as well as piece workers, were excluded from the benefits of the joint resolution of December 22, 1942.
2004 M. Roberts in P. Lane et al. Women, Work & Wages in Eng., 1600–1850 iii. 89 These meetings operated rather like the hiring fairs for yearly servants.
Compounds
Yearly Meeting n. (in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)) a national or regional assembly held annually to deal with legislation and questions of policy; an administrative body which meets at such an assembly.Typically composed of the members of a number of smaller meetings, such as Quarterly Meetings (quarterly meeting n. 1a) or local Monthly Meetings (Monthly Meeting at monthly adj. and n. Compounds).
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society > faith > church government > council > Quaker > [noun]
monthly meeting1641
quarterly meeting1675
Yearly Meeting?1680
?1680 J. Bullock Testimony against 66 Judges call'd Quakers 4 The sence and admonition of the last yearly Meeting, writ in great love that they might return, and be reconciled to their Brethren.
1714 in Jrnl. Friends Hist. Soc. (1918) 28 Thence into Maryland to friends yearly-meeting at Tradaven-Creek..wherein Truth was plentifully afforded to ye bowing of many souls here.
1831 in S. B. Weeks Southern Quakers & Slavery (1896) xi. 300 There is not a school in the limits of the [North Carolina] Yearly Meeting that is under the care of a committee of either monthly or preparative meeting.
1923 E. B. Emmott Short Hist. Quakerism xi. 171 The proposal for a General Meeting for the whole country (which we now call the Yearly Meeting) came in the first instance from Durham Friends..in 1659.
1974 G. Hubbard Quaker by Convincement i. iii. 41 Through the queries answered in writing four times a year by Monthly Meetings, the Yearly Meeting kept a watchful eye on departures from the norm.
1999 Friend 23 July 8/3 I was reminded at Yearly Meeting that more children in the UK than ever before live lives without love.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
yearlyadv.
/ˈjɪəli/, /ˈjəːli/, U.S. /ˈjɪrli/ Every year, year by year; annually. Also: on an annual basis.
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the world > time > period > year > [adverb]
yearlyeOE
by yeara1382
year by yeara1393
from year to yearc1400
per annum1531
strawberry-wise1548
annuallya1555
per ann.1610
anniversarilya1631
twelvemonthly1847
eOE Cleopatra Gloss. in W. G. Stryker Lat.-Old Eng. Gloss. in MS Cotton Cleopatra A.III (Ph.D. diss., Stanford Univ.) (1951) 48 Annuatim, gearlice.
c1440 (?a1375) Abbey Holy Ghost (Thornton) in G. G. Perry Relig. Pieces in Prose & Verse (1914) 58 Þe gernare þat kepis ȝerely þe whete þat es rede with-owte and white with-in.
1449 in J. A. Kingdon Arch. Worshipful Company of Grocers (1886) I. 124 (MED) The Wardenes for the tyme beynge shalle yerly suffre the grapis..to hange Stylle and rype.
a1475 J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. (Laud) (1885) 119 Such as wolde haue ben feyner of a c Li in hand, than of xl Li worth lande yerely.
1500 in M. Livingstone Reg. Secreti Sigilli Regum Scotorum (1908) I. 68/1 To haf merkatis and fairis in the said burgh ȝerle, with a merkat cors.
1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. E6v I thought one might haue had a farme, or a lease for a reasonable rent yeerely.
1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 177 There is a Caravan that yearly in Lent goes from Caire to Jerusalem.
a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 381 He gave yearly great sums in charity.
1775 R. Chandler Trav. Asia Minor xl. 143 A panegyris or general assembly was held there yearly.
1830 A. Cunningham Lives Brit. Painters (ed. 2) II. 176 The demand for his works lessened yearly.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vi. 65 It was agreed that Sunderland should receive this sum yearly.
1909 M. E. Durham in Albania & Albanians (2001) 16 During the past eight years I have yearly travelled the western half of the Balkan peninsula.
1917 Alberta Law Rep. 11 447 The statute provides that the interest must be calculated not in advance and that it may be calculated yearly or half-yearly.
2001 Daily Tel. 26 Oct. 29/4 Some 350 kilotonnes of ammonia are emitted yearly by Britain, helping to damage plants, aquatic habitats and buildings.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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