Obs. [f. L. anni versus the (re)turning of a year. Common in 17th c.] An anniversary.
1615. Corbet, Poems (1807), 52.
| As Henryes vault, his peace, his sacred hearse, | |
| Are torne and batter’d by thine Anniverse. |
a. 1681. Oldham, Poems (1698), 54. Only once a year, On the sad anniverse drop a remembering tear.
1817. W. Taylor, in Month. Mag., XLIV. 234. The 7th of November was kept as a solemn anniverse by Lorenzo dei Medici, at his country-house, as the birthday and death-day of Plato.
