lunary

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/ˈluːnəɹiː/

adjective

lunar; of the moon

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Meanings

adjectivelunary (not comparable)
  1. not comparableobsoletelunar; of the moon

    This lunary sphere, lowest and basest to divine bodies, is first and highest to terrestrial bodies.

    1944, Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
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    [243] IV. THE MOON A WATER-DEITY. We design this chapter to be the completion of moon-worship, and at the same time an anticipation of those lunary superstitions which are but scattered leaves from luniolatry, the parent tree.

    1885, Timothy Harley, Moon Lore

    He has moreover enriched his work by adding to it an ecclesiastic compute with all its indications; an orrery after the Copernican system, representing the mean tropical revolutions of each of the planets visible to the naked eye, the phases of the moon, the eclipses of the sun and moon, calculated for ever; the true time and the sideral time; a new celestial globe with the procession of the equinoxes, solar and lunary equations for the reduction of the mean geocentric ascension and declension of the sun and moon at true times and places.

    1922, anonymous author, Historical Sketch of the Cathedral of Strasburg
noun
  1. moonwort (Botrychium lunaria)

    Accordingly she visits the witch, Dipsas, by whose magic aid the youth, found resting on a bank of lunary, is bewitched to sleep until old age.

    1914, Arnold Wynne, The Growth of English Drama
  2. honesty, any plant in the genus Lunaria

    [10] The aloe, by the Egyptians, is reputed to resist any baleful influence, and the lunary or "honesty" is by our own country people said to put every evil influence to flight.

    1889, T. F. Thiselton-Dyer, The Folk-lore of Plants

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lunary. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lunary

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“lunary.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lunary. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

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