Forms: α. 3 Iul, 3–5 Iule, 4–5 Iuil, Iuyl, 5–6 Iuyll(e. β. (2 gen. Iulies), 3, 6–7 Iulie, 6 Iulii, 5–7 Iuly, 7– July. [In OE. in L. form. In ME. Jule, Juil, a. OF. Jule, Juil, Julle:—L. Jūlium acc. of Jūlius; also Julie, a. AF. Julie, ad. L. Jūlius. The latter form was accented Ju·ly as late as Dr. Johnson’s time.]

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  The seventh month of the year, so named after Julius Cæsar.

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[c. 1050.  Byrhtferth’s Handboc, in Anglia (1885), VIII. 316. Iulius on Þam forman dæʓe anre nihte eald.

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a. 1100.  Gerefa, ibid. (1886), IX. 261. Me mæiʓ in Maio and Junio and Julio on sumera fealʓian.]

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  α.  1297.  R. Glouc. (Rolls), 8221. In þe bigininge of Iul þis bataile was ido.

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c. 1386.  Chaucer, Merch. T., 889. Er þat dayes eighte Were passed er the Monthe of Iuyl bifille.

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1398.  Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XIX. lxxix. (1495), 910. Out take two monthes Iule and Decembre.

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1480.  Caxton, Chron. Eng., ccxxiv. 229. In the monethes of Iuyn and Iuyll next folowyng.

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1502.  Bill, in Exch. Acc., Q. R. Bundle 415 No. 7 (1). Made ye xixth day of Iuylle the xvijth yeare [etc.].

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  β.  [a. 1154.  O. E. Chron., an. 1115 (Laud MS.). Æfter þan syððan innon Iulies monðe hider into lande com.]

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a. 1290.  Beket, 2441, in S. Eng. Leg., I. 176. It was in þe monþe of Iulie.

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1483.  Cath. Angl., 199/1. Iuly (A. Iule), julius, quidam mensis.

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a. 1548.  Hall, Chron., Hen. VI., 166. The xiij. day of Iulij.

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a. 1599.  Spenser, F. Q., VII. vii. 36. Then came hot Iuly boyling like to fire, That all his garments he had cast away.

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1606.  Holland, Sueton., Suppl. Begin. Cæsar ¶ iv b. Cæsar … was borne … vpon the fourth day before the Ides of Quintilis, which moneth, after his death, was by virtue of the Law Antonia called for that cause, Iulie.

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c. 1689.  Popish Pol. Unmaskt, 112, in 3rd Coll. Poems, 23/2. In May some odd Intelligence come newly Won’t suffer you to hold them until July.

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1755–73.  Johnson, Dict., Ju′ly.

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1888.  Mrs. M’Cann, Poet. Wks., 235. Scarce has July with frigid visage flown [in Australia].

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1895.  Daily News, 1 Aug., 5/4. There have been, in fact, only two Julys with a larger aggregate of sunshine.

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