plenilune Chiefly poet.
(ˈpliːnɪl(j)uːn, plɛnɪ-)
[ad. L. plēnilūnium: see below. Cf. It. plenilunio.]
a. The time of full moon. b. A full moon.
| 1432–50 tr. Higden (Rolls) VI. 103 Unto the tru knowlege of the kepynge of Ester thre thynges ar to be attendide,..the equinoccialle of ver, the perfite plenilune or fullenesse of the moone, and Sonneday. 1599 B. Jonson Cynthia's Rev. v. iii, Whose glory, like a lasting plenilune, Seems ignorant of what it is to wane. c 1600 Timon iv. i. (Shaks. Soc.) 61 Look to thy braines, least in the plenilune Thou waxe more madde. 1878 Swinburne Poems & Ball., Vis. Spring, Large nightfall and imperial plenilune. |
Hence
pleniˈlunal,
pleniˈlunar,
pleniˈlunary adjs., belonging to or resembling the full moon.
| 1882 E. FitzGerald Lett. (1889) I. 486, I shall try and pay you my *plenilunal due. |
| 1767 A. Campbell Lexiph. (1774) 25 A ruddy *plenilunar resplendent countenance. 1845 De Quincey Coleridge & Opium-eating Wks. 1859 XII. 92 The wrath of Andrew, previously in a crescent state, actually dilated to a plenilunar orb. |
| 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iv. xiii. 228 If we adde the two ægyptian daies in every moneth, the interlunary and *plenilunary exemptions, the Eclipses of Sunne and Moon. |