Middle English Dictionary Entry
Septembre n.
Entry Info
| Forms | Septembre n. Also septemb(ē̆)r, septenbre, (early) setembre & (error) semtembir. |
| Etymology | L, OE september & OF setembre, septembre, septenbre. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The month of September; (b) fig. a later stage of life or development.
Associated quotations
a
- a1121 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1114 : Innan Septembre he for ofer sæ into Normandig.
- a1126 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1125 : He heold his concilie on Lundene..on Septembre.
- a1150(?OE) Vsp.D.Hom.(Vsp D.14)91/18 : On Setembre, hit bodeð god gear.
- c1300 SLeg.Cross (LdMisc 108)517 : Þis was þe holie rode-day þat in Septembre is.
- c1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)9906 : Richard, king henries sone, to engelonde com, And..Þe verþe day of septembre, he let him crouny iwis At westmunstre.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)7.1117 : Saturnus..His propre Monthe is seid Septembre, Which yifth men cause to remembre, If eny Sor be left behinde Of thing which grieve mai to kinde.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)125a/b : The nynthe moneþ hatte septembre and haþ þat name for he is þe seuenþe moneþ of temperat reyne, þat is to menyge aftir marche.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)10998 : Nu bredes barn elizabeth In septembre [Göt: septenbre] o þat moneth.
- a1425 Ben.Rule(1) (Lnsd 378)29/6 : Ye sal ete twise of þe day..til þe hali rodis dai in semtembir.
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)9b/b : Bathanium [vrr. Betanium, Bathanim], i. september.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)8.169 : As mene or nought hit be He rynce, yf Aust be faust Nygh Septembeer [rime: theer].
- a1450(1391) Chaucer Astr.(Benson-Robinson)1.10.16 : Than hath Januarie 31 daies..September 30.
- (a1460) Vegetius(2) (Pmb-C 243)2725 : Arcture, as from the first Ide of Septembre, His reigne he hath.
- (1465-6) Doc.in Welch Hist.Pewterers Lond.33 : The xxvijti day of Septembr þe Saterday before myhelmasse Day.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)50a/a : Libra þe 7 signe..In to which signe þe sunne entriþ þe firste day of september þe 2 hour of þe nyȝt.
- c1484(a1475) Caritate SSecr.(Tak 38)153/27 : Somir..þat is to sey, fro þe thre and tweynti day of June to þe four and tweynti day of Septembyr.
- a1500 When thonder comeþ (Cmb Ff.5.48)43 : If þou here any thonder In þe mone of September, It betokyns sclauȝter of riche.
- c1500 XXXti days (Hnt HU 1051)p.421 : xxxti days hath Novembre, June, Aprill, and Septembre; of xxviij there is but on, and all the remenunt xxxj.
b
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)8.2845 : Who the times wel recordeth, And thanne at Marche if he beginne, Whan that the lusti yeer comth inne, Til Augst be passed and Septembre, The myhty youthe he may remembre.