Forms: 4 augoste, augst, 5 aust, 4– august. [In form aust a. OF. aoust (mod. août):—L. augustus (see prec.); in current form, from the L.; in form augst partially latinized.] The eighth month of the year, so named after Augustus Cæsar, the first Roman emperor.
1097. O. E. Chron. (Laud MS.). Fram midde sumeran for neah oð August.
c. 1325. E. E. Allit. P., A. 39. In augoste in a hyȝ seysoun.
1393. Gower, Conf., III. 370. Till augst be passed and septembre.
c. 1450. Merlin, ix. 132. It was feire wedir … as stille as aboute aust.
1591. Shaks., 1 Hen. VI., I. i. 110. The tenth of August last.
1870. Morris, Earthly Par., I. II. 551. And August came the fainting year to mend With fruit and grain.
