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Definition of Full-of-the-moon
1. Noun. The time when the Moon is fully illuminated. "The moon is at the full"
Group relationships: Month
Generic synonyms: Phase Of The Moon
Specialized synonyms: Harvest Moon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Full-of-the-moon
Literary usage of Full-of-the-moon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Francis Bacon by John Thomas Scharf, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Francis Bacon, James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, Douglas Denon Heath, William Rawley (1876)
"It is like that the brain of man waxeth moister and fuller upon the full of the
moon ; and therefore it were good for those that have moist brains, ..."
2. The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy by Isaac Newton, William Emerson, John Machin (1803)
"... rather nearly after the twelfth hour from the new or full moon, and therefore
fall nearly upon the forty-third hour after the new or full of the moon. ..."
3. Rest Days: A Study in Early Law and Morality by Hutton Webster (1916)
"... reckonings are employed and the month begins at sunset with the visible new
moon, the fourteenth day more commonly coincides with the full of the moon.3 ..."
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