AUGUST

a. n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Of a quality inspiring mingled admiration and reverence; having an aspect of solemn dignity or grandeur; sublime; majestic; having exalted birth, character, state, or authority. "Forms august." Pope. "August in visage." Dryden. "To shed that august blood." Macaulay. So beautiful and so august a spectacle. Burke. To mingle with a body so august. Byron.

2.
n.

The eighth month of the year, containing thirty-one days.


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