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6 words match “CALENDS”

CALENDS n.
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.
GREEK CALENDS; GREEK KALENDS n.
A time that will never come, as the Greeks had no calends.
CALENDULA n.
pecies, Calendula officinalis, is the common marigold, and was supposed to blossom on the calends of every month, whence the name.
GREEK a.
Of or pertaining to Greece or the Greeks; Grecian. Greek calends. See under Calends. -- Greek Church (Eccl. Hist.), the Eastern Church; that part of Christendom which separated from the Roman or Western Church in the ninth century. It comprises the great bulk of the Christian population of Russia (of which this is the…
KALENDS n.
Same as Calends.
ROMAN CALENDAR n.
ignating the days of the month, the Romans reckoned backward from three fixed points, the calends, the nones, and the ides. The calends were always the first day of the month. The ides fell on the 15th in March, May, July (Quintilis), and October, and on the 13th in other months. The nones came on the eighth day (the n…