[Fr. (1793), f. Gr. θέρμη heat + δῶρον gift.] The eleventh month of the French revolutionary calendar, extending (in 1794) from July, 19 to August 17.
1797. J. Gifford, trans. Lally-Tolendal’s Def. French Emigrants, 235. We are now come to the month of Thermidor.
1827. Scott, Napoleon, Introd., The 9th Thermidor, or 27th July.
1842. Brande, Dict. Sc., etc., s.v. Thermidor, It was the month signalized by the overthrow of Robespierre and the Reign of Terror; thence commonly called the Revolution of Thermidor, and those who boasted of having participated in it called themselves Thermidorians.
