Eastermonth

English Alternative forms en Easter month Easter Month Easter-month Etymology en ang eastermonaþ Ēastermōnaþ April Easter-month, equivalent to en Easter month. Cognate with odt ōstermānoth April, de Ostermonat April Easter-month (cp. de Ostermond April Easter-moon). Proper noun en poetic The typical month of the Paschal cycle; Paschal month; the month in which Easter typically occurs; April. en 1807 The churchman's magazine It is pretended that it is a heathen institution, or copied from a heathen institution; which reflection is derived from the circumstance of there having been a goddess called by different writers Aoster, Eoster, Eostre, Oster, or Easter, whose feast was celebrated in the month of April, which was thence called Easter Month. en 1865 The Bromley record and monthly advertiser Charlemagne called April the Easter month, because it is the month in which Easter usually falls. 1883, Dorcas magazine: April, the "Easter month" of the Saxon, the season of renewed life in the outside world, is, by some nations, reckoned as the beginning of the new year. en 1900 Georg Herzfeld Original series When the month that we call Eastermonth is over, then the night lasts ten hours and the day fourteen hours. 1903, New York City mission monthly: On this Easter month we have for several years sent out to the friends of our Society a little booklet of real pictures, showing some of the many lines of our work among the poor. en 2003 Cyril Roy Hart Learning and culture in late Anglo-Saxon England However, we find nineteen [and five] nights from the time that Eastermonth comes, the cycle revolves eke to the day when eager with song fervent with words we worship, [...] en 2009 James Earle Fraser From Caledonia to Pictland In the meantime, the two systems often produced an identical Easter – when a full moon did not occur in the gap between 21 and 24 March (which delayed the Easter month in the Insular reckoning by another lunar cycle), [...] en Months