Middle English Dictionary Entry
Decembre n.
Entry Info
| Forms | Decembre n. Also descember. |
| Etymology | OF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
The month of December.
Associated quotations
- 1122 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1122 : Þet wæs þæs dæies vii Idvs Decembr.
- c1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)8440 : Þe endleueþe dai of decembre þe toun hii wonne so.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)2.207 : In Decembre þe sonne is in þe Goot.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)7.4301 : For if the Monthe of Juil schal frese And that Decembre schal ben hot, The yeer mistorneth.
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.Fkl.(Manly-Rickert)F.1244 : And this was, as thise bookes me remembre, The colde, frosty seson of Decembre.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)24916 : Þat moneth..man clepes o þe yeir Decembre [Göt: Decembir; Frf: descembre; Phys-E: December] in þe kalunder.
- c1400(?a1300) KAlex.(LdMisc 622)56 : Þe tienþe moneþ is Decembre [LinI: December]; Geneuer was þe elleuenþe þoo.
- a1425 Progn.Thunder(1) (Ashm 342)p.288 : December þonder toneth plente of all gode and loue and pes a-mong all men.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)2.325 : In December or Ianyueer demene..a mesure To graffe an almaunt tre.
- a1450(1391) Chaucer Astr.(Benson-Robinson)1.10.6 : Next the cercle of the daies folewith the cercle of the names of the monthes, that is to say, Januarius, Februarius..November, December.
- a1450 Ben.Rule(2) (Vsp A.25)1121 : In tyme of winter, in Descember..es risyng right At þe aght our of þe nyght.
- a1500 When thonder comeþ (Cmb Ff.5.48)58 : If þou here any þonder In þe moneth of December, We shal..Haue pees.