Definition of August 1

1. Noun. Commemorates Saint Peter's miraculous deliverance from prison; a quarter day in Scotland; a harvest festival in England.

Exact synonyms: Lammas, Lammas Day
Generic synonyms: Quarter Day

Lexicographical Neighbors of August 1

Aufrecht's sign
Aug
Aug.
Augean
Augean stables
Augeas
Auger
Auger effect
Auger electron
Aughton
Augie
Augmentin
Augsburg
Augsburg Confession
August 1 (current term)
August 15
August 6
August F. Mobius
August Ferdinand Mobius
August Friedrich Leopold Weismann
August Strindberg
August Wilhelm von Hoffmann
August plum
Augusta
Augustan
Auguste Comte
Auguste Rodin
Augustin Eugene Scribe
Augustin Jean Fresnel

Literary usage of August 1

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Pennsylvania Archives by Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth, Pennsylvania Dept. of Public Instruction, Pennsylvania State library, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania State Library (1890)
"Reading, August 1. 1780. Muller. Jacob, Pottsgrove, August 1. 1778. ... Ziegler, Henry, Reading, May 1, 1780. Zink, Abraham, Pottsgrove, August 1, 1778. ..."

2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1890)
"They stated the amounts due the intervenors, separately and for different periods,—one, from August 1, 1883, to August 1, 1884, and the other from thence on ..."

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