Definition of Full-of-the-moon

1. Noun. The time when the Moon is fully illuminated. "The moon is at the full"

Exact synonyms: Full, Full Moon, Full Phase Of The Moon
Group relationships: Month
Generic synonyms: Phase Of The Moon
Specialized synonyms: Harvest Moon

Lexicographical Neighbors of Full-of-the-moon

full-deckism
full-deckisms
full-dress
full-dress uniform
full-face
full-fashioned
full-figured
full-fledged
full-frontal nudity
full-grown
full-hearted
full-length
full-looking
full-made
full-motion video
full-of-the-moon (current term)
full-on
full-out
full-page
full-powered
full-scale
full-size
full-stop
full-strength
full-stretch
full-term
full-thickness burn
full-thickness flap
full-thickness graft
full-throated

Literary usage of Full-of-the-moon

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Works of Francis Bacon by John Thomas Scharf, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Francis Bacon, James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, Douglas Denon Heath, William Rawley (1876)
"It is like that the brain of man waxeth moister and fuller upon the full of the moon ; and therefore it were good for those that have moist brains, ..."

2. The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy by Isaac Newton, William Emerson, John Machin (1803)
"... rather nearly after the twelfth hour from the new or full moon, and therefore fall nearly upon the forty-third hour after the new or full of the moon. ..."

3. Rest Days: A Study in Early Law and Morality by Hutton Webster (1916)
"... reckonings are employed and the month begins at sunset with the visible new moon, the fourteenth day more commonly coincides with the full of the moon.3 ..."

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