Middle English Dictionary Entry
lūnāciǒun n.
Entry Info
| Forms | lūnāciǒun n. |
| Etymology | ML lūnātio |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
The time taken for a complete lunar cycle, a lunar month.
Associated quotations
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)122a/b : The ȝere of þe mone is somtyme clepid þe space in þe which þe mone passiþ..fro on point of zodiacus to þe same point aȝen..seuene & twenty dayes and sixe houres; And somtyme..þe space of tyme þe mone meueþ..fro chaunginge to chaunge, & þis space passiþ raþir by tweye dayes & sixe houres..And suche a space of tyme hatte lunacio..Som tyme a ȝere of þe mone is þe space þat conteyneþ twelue lu[n]aciouns.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)122b/a : In certeine ȝeres..þritty dayes ben acountid for on lunacioun of þe mone..all þe festis of þe lawe were I-holde by þe cours and age of þe moone and þerfore among hem suche aȝere biginnyth fro þe lunacioun of aprill.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)124a/b : Oþir wise a moneþ of þe mone is I-take for a fulle lunacioun þat durith fro chaunge to chaunge.
- ?a1425(c1400) Mandev.(1) (Tit C.16)200/27 : Þere is not the mone seyn in all the Lunacioun saf only the seconde quarteroun.