Middle English Dictionary Entry
august n.
Entry Info
| Forms | august n. Also augst, aoust, aust. |
| Etymology | L augustus & OF aoust. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
The month of August.
Associated quotations
- a1121 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1107 : To Eastran his hired on Windles oran heold..& syððan eft, to Augustes anginne, on Westmynstre wæs.
- ?a1200(OE) Hrl.HApul.(Hrl 6258B:Berberich)84.30/4 : Þes wyrt þu sceal nime on augustu monþe.
- ?a1200(OE) Hrl.HApul.(Hrl 6258B:Berberich)135.137/1 : Þu scealt nime on þan monþa þat man augustes nemneð.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)7.1100 : Whan every feld hath corn in honde..Unto this Signe is Augst applied.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)125a/a : The eightþe moneþ hatte augustus & haþ þat name augustus of August þe Emperour.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)341/32 : Sette hem in þe sunne in þe moneþe of august.
- c1400(?a1300) KAlex.(LdMisc 622)53 : Þe first was ycleped Mars..Þe fyfte Jule, þe sexte August.
- (1417) MSS PRO in App.Bk.Lond.E.288 : Yeuen vnder owr signet..þe xij day of Aoust.
- a1425 Progn.Thunder(1) (Ashm 342)288 : August þonder toneth plente a-mong mankynd, but many men schull bene seke.
- (1428) Grocer Lond.(Kingdon)190/4 : Þe xxviij daye off aust.
- c1432 Bishop Notes in PMLA 49 (Cmb Dd.14.2)456 : Þe xij day of August.
- (1442) Let.Bekynton in RS 56.2196 : On Fryday, the third day of August, the cite of Ax..was wonne.
- a1450(1391) Chaucer Astr.(Benson-Robinson)1.10.5,21 : The names of the monthes..Junius, Julius, Augustus..Augustus Cesar clepid the month of August after his name and ordeined it of 31 daies.
- c1450 Treat.Fish.(Yale 171)23 : In August take þe flye, þe lytyl red worme..& bynde þe hooke.
- a1475 Godstow Reg.(Rwl B.408)602/13 : The sonday next after the gule of August, that is to sey, lammasse day.
- a1500(?c1450) Merlin (Cmb Ff.3.11)132 : It hadde not yet nothir reyned ne snowed ne frosen, but was as stille as a-boute aust.