September
[sep'tembə] or [sɛp'tɛmbɚ]
Definition
(n.) The ninth month of the year, containing thurty days.
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Definition
n. the ninth month of the year.—adj. Septem′bral.—n. Septem′brist one of the perpetrators of the atrocious massacres in the prisons of Paris Sept. 2-7 1792.—September thorn a British geometrid moth.
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Examples
- Somewhat to her surprise, Sir Philip followed her advice to the letter, and actually, towards the close of September, arrived at the priory. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- One day, it was the ninth of September, seemed devoted to every disaster, to every harrowing incident. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Sir John Herschel, in an address before the British Association on September 10, said that the year past had given prospect of a new planet. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- It started, as we have said, on September 4, 1882, supplying about four hundred lights to a comparatively small number of customers. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In September of the same year Eugèn e Bouvard had presented new tables of that planet. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- This reached Sherman on September 20th. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- On the 13th of September General Sterling Price entered Iuka, a town about twenty miles east of Corinth on the Memphis and Charleston railroad. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- On September 20th occurred a battle, mainly an artillery encounter, at Valmy. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Timby, No. 35,846, July 8, 1862, and No. 36,593, September 30, 1862. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The Deutschland in her eastward trip September 4, 1900, crossed the Atlantic in 5 days 7 hours and 38 minutes, which is the fastest time on record. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- And we only yet in September? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The 15th of September was the day appointed, and there were eight locomotive engines provided to propel the same number of trains of carriages, which were to form the procession. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- He would be at home in September, and where would be the harm of only waiting till September? Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- On the 30th of September I reported for duty at Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis, with the 4th United States infantry. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The Treaty of Peace was finally signed at Paris in September. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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