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60 words match “CALENDAR”

CALENDAR n. 4 definitions
An orderly list or enumeration of persons, things, or events; a schedule; as, a calendar of state papers; a calendar of bills presented in a legislative assemblly; a calendar of causes arranged for trial in court; a calendar of a college or an academy.
CALENDARIAL a.
Of or pertaining to the calendar or a calendar.
CALENDARY a.
Calendarial. [Obs.]
ENCALENDAR v.
To register in a calendar; to calendar. Drayton.
GREEK CALENDAR n. 3 definitions
Any of various calendars used by the ancient Greek states. The Attic calendar divided the year into twelve months of 29 and 30 days, as follows:
HEBREW CALENDAR n.
= Jewish calendar.
HINDOO CALENDAR; HINDU CALENDAR n.
A lunisolar calendar of India, according to which the year is divided into twelve months, with an extra month inserted after every month in which two new moons occur (once in three years). The intercalary month has the name of the one which precedes it. The year usually commences about April 11. The months are follows:…
JEWISH CALENDAR n.
A lunisolar calendar in use among Hebraic peoples, reckoning from the year 3761 b. c., the date traditionally given for the Creation. It received its present fixed form from Hillel II. about 360 a. d. The present names of the months, which are Babylonian- Assyrian in origin, replaced older ones, Abib, Bul, etc., at the…
MOHAMMEDAN CALENDAR n.
A lunar calendar reckoning from the year of the hegira, 622 a. d. Thirty of its years constitute a cycle, of which the 2d, 5th, 7th, 10th, 13th, 16th, 18th, 21st, 24th, 26th, and 29th are leap years, having 355 days; the others are common, having 354 days. By the following tables any Mohammedan date may be changed into…
PERPETUAL CALENDAR n.
A calendar that can be used perpetually or over a wide range of years. That of Capt. Herschel covers, as given below, dates from 1750 to 1961 only, but is capable of indefinite extension.
ROMAN CALENDAR n.
The calendar of the ancient Romans, from which our modern calendars are derived. It is said to have consisted originally of ten months, Martius, Aprilis, Maius, Junius, Quintilis, Sextilis, September, October, November, and December, having a total of 304 days. Numa added two months, Januarius at the beginning of the y…
ALMANAC n.
A book or table, containing a calendar of days, and months, to which astronomical data and various statistics are often added, such as the times of the rising and setting of the sun and moon, eclipses, hours of full tide, stated festivals of churches, terms of courts, etc. Nautical almanac, an almanac, or year book, co…
BLACK-LETTER a.
Of or pertaining to the days in the calendar not marked with red letters as saints' days. Hence: Unlucky; inauspicious.
BRUMAIRE n.
The second month of the calendar adopted by the first French republic. It began thirty days after the autumnal equinox. See Vendemiaire.
CALENDOGRAPHER n.
One who makes calendars. [R.]
CALENDRIC; CALENDRICAL a.
Of or pertaining to a calendar.
CALENDS n.
The first day of each month in the ancient Roman calendar. [Written also kalends.] The Greek calends, a time that will never come, as the Greeks had no calends.
CLOG n.
ort . . . makes use of wooden clogs. Harvey. Clog almanac, a primitive kind of almanac or calendar, formerly used in England, made by cutting notches and figures on the four edges of a clog, or square piece of wood, brass, or bone; -- called also a Runic staff, from the Runic characters used in the numerical notation.…
CYCLE n. 2 definitions
An orderly list for a given time; a calendar. [Obs.] We . . . present our gardeners with a complete cycle of what is requisite to be done throughout every month of the year. Evelyn.
DATE LINE n.
a boundary on one side of which the same day shall have a different name and date in the calendar from its name and date on the other side.
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