| 单词 |
semestral |
| 释义 |
semestrial, semestral, a.|sɪˈmɛstrɪəl, sɪˈmɛstrəl|
[f. L. sēmēstr-is (see semester) + -ial, -al1.]
Half-yearly; taking place every six months; lasting for six months. Of persons: holding office for six months; exercising office every six months.
1701J. Sage Vind. Princ. Cypr. Age iii. 118 Neither was the change..made only from weekly, or monthly, or semestrial, or annual, to constant Moderators. 1726Ayliffe Parergon 332 As they may in their Semestral Visitations inform themselves touching such Churches as are become void. 1844W. Kay in Fleury's Eccl. Hist. III. 406 note, The old canonical semestral council. 1847Thackeray Barnwell in Punch XII. 136/2 Speeding to the Bank for her semestrial pittance. 1894Westm. Gaz. 18 Dec. 1/2 The ideal state of things, Lord Salisbury's argument implies, would be not Triennial but Semestral Parliaments.
Hence seˈmestrially adv., every six months.
1891Sat. Rev. 9 May 573/2 [He] continues..semestrially..to furnish his quota of sensational aventures parisiennes. |
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