Middle English Dictionary Entry
juil n.
Entry Info
| Forms | juil n. Also juille, juiel, juel & jūlī(e, jul(e & jūlius, julii, julus. |
| Etymology | OF juil, julie, jul(e & L Jūlius. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The month of July; julies month, julii tide, July; (b) as adj.
Associated quotations
a
- a1121 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1115 : Henri..innon Iulies monðe hider into lande com.
- a1275 *St.Marg.(2) (Trin-C B.14.39)310 : Þe twentenþe dai is hire in þe time of iulie.
- c1300 SLeg.Becket (LdMisc 108)2441 : It was in þe monþe of Iulie [Hrl: Jul].
- c1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)8221 : In þe bigininge of Iul [vrr. Iule, Iulij, Iulie, Iuly], þis bataile was ido.
- c1330 KTars (Auch)40/313 : Þe first day of Julij tide, Þe soudan nold no leng abide.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)7.1079 : His propre Monthe is Juyl be name.
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.Mch.(Manly-Rickert)E.2133 : Er that dayes eighte Were passed er the monthe of Iuyl bifille.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)125a/a : The seuenthe moneþ hatte Julius and haþ þat name of Julius Cesar.
- c1410(1399) Will Folkyngham in Yks.Wr.2 (UC 97)448 : Þe vi day of Iuylle, þe ȝeere of our lorde a thousand þre hundreth fourescore & nynetene.
- c1400(?a1300) KAlex.(LdMisc 622)53 : Þe first was ycleped Mars..Þe fyfte Jule [LinI: Julye], þe sexte August.
- (c1410) York MGame (Vsp B.12)17 : Whan þei be burnysshed, þe which þei doon al þe month of Jvill, þei abide in þat matere in to þe feest of þe holy [Cross] in Septembre.
- c1465(?1373) *Lelamour Macer (Sln 5)22b : In jule he is goune.
- c1432 Bishop Notes in PMLA 49 (Cmb Dd.14.2)455 : In þe iiij day of Julii, in þe viij ȝere of Kyng Harry þe sixt.
- c1450(?1436) Siege Calais (Rome 1306)1 : In Iuyll whan the sonne shone shene, Bowes burgoned, and leves grene Gan change thaire coloures.
- (1442) Let.Bekynton in RS 56.2187 : We..arrived to this your noble cite of Burdeaux on Monday the xvj day of Juil.
- (1442) Let.Bekynton in RS 56.2219 : Yeven, &c., at Wendesore the xx day of Juiel.
- a1450(1391) Chaucer Astr.(Benson-Robinson)1.10.13 : Eke of these monthes..somme were compouned of diverse nombres of daies, as Julie and August.
- a1450(1391) Chaucer Astr.(Benson-Robinson)1.10.20 : Julius Cesar toke 2 daies out of Feverer and putte hem in his month of Juyll.
- c1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)3537 : All þe iolite of giugne & Iulus was endid.
- c1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)3789 : Þus pas he furthe with his princes ser Porrus to mete, In August eftir Iuli.
- c1450 Brut-1434 (Cmb Hh.6.9)442/5 : And so he was caried the thirde day of Juyll, And there hangede for his trespass.
- c1450 Capgr.Rome (Bod 423)35 : In iune be þe crabbe, in iule be þe leoun, in august be þe uirgin.
- c1450 Treat.Fish.(Yale 171)173/16 : In julye take þe litle red worme.
- a1475 Godstow Reg.(Rwl B.408)314/6 : The viij day of the monthe of Iuel.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)49b/b : In to which signe þe sunne entriþ þe firste day of Juyl þe 4 hour of þe nyȝt.
- a1500(1426) Lydg.Hen.VI TP (Hrl 7333)290 : Hit was in soth..The monyth of Iuyll twenty daies comen.
b
- a1425 Progn.Thunder(1) (Ashm 342)288 : Julie þonder toneth gode yer.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)68a : Iule:..juliaticus.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- c1450(1438) GLeg.Paula (GiL28) (Eg 876) 139/160 : It fell in the right brennyng hete of Iulit that she was in a brennyng feuer.
Note: New spelling (with final t).