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The tenth month of the French republican calendar dating from September 22, 1792. It began June 19, and ended July 18. See VendÉmiaire.

The suppression of a day in the calendar to prevent the date of the new moon being set a day too late, or the suppression of the bissextile day once in 134 years. The opposite to this is the proemptosis, or the addition of a day every 330 years, and another every 2,400 years.

the first day of the Mohammedan year 1332 begin Nov. 30, 1913, acording to the Gregorian calendar.

) A celebration made in remembrance of a deceased person a month after death. Strype. -- Calendar months, the months as adjusted in the common or Gregorian calendar; April, June, September, and November, containing 30 days, and the rest 31, except February, which, in common years, has 28, and in leap years 29. -- Lun…

The time of the new moon; the beginning of the month in the lunar calendar.

the first day of a calendar year; the first day of January. Often colloquially abbreviated to New year's or new year.

cal year, formerly answering nearly to the month of April, now to March, of the Christian calendar. See Abib.

The fourth month of the French republican calendar [1792-1806]. It commenced December 21, and ended January 19. See VendÉmiaire.

schievous; baleful; malicious; wicked. Let this pernicious hour Stand aye accursed in the calendar. Shak. Pernicious to his health. Prescott.

. Milton. Circle of perpetual apparition, or occultation. See under Circle. -- Perpetual calendar, a calendar so devised that it may be adjusted for any month or year. -- Perpetual curacy (Ch. of Eng.), a curacy in which all the tithes are appropriated, and no vicarage is endowed. Blackstone. -- Perpetual motion. Se…

The fifth month of the French republican calendar adopted in

The ninth month of the French Republican calendar, which dated from September 22, 1792. It began May, 20, and ended June 18. See Vendemiaire.

The addition of a day to the lunar calendar. [R.] See Metemptosis.

-- so called in allusion to the custom of marking holy days, or saints' days, in the old calendars with red letters.

A mode of reckoning time, with regard to the Julian and Gregorian calendars.

The eleventh month of the French republican calendar, -- commencing July 19, and ending August 17. See the Note under Vendémiaire.

A year which consists of twelve calendar months. I shall laugh at this a twelvemonth hence. Shak.

The thirteenth, or intercalary, month of the Jewish ecclesiastical calendar, which is added about every third year.

The first month of the French republican calendar, dating from September 22, 1792.

The sixth month of the calendar adopted by the first French republic. It began February 19, and ended March 20. See Vend.