- a variation of calends.
kalends
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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It appeared that so long as an army keeps the field uninterruptedly a campaign may continue until the Greek kalends.
From Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places by Forbes, Archibald
And in the self-same year died Wulfric, Abbot of St. Augustine's, within the Easter week, on the fourteenth before the kalends of May.
From The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle by Ingram, J. H. (James Henry)
If the enemy of the gods, Athanasius, remains in Egypt after the kalends of December," it ran, "you and your troops shall pay a hundred pounds in gold.
From Saint Athanasius The Father of Orthodoxy by Forbes, F. A. (Frances Alice)
In the arrangement subsequently arrived at under the name of the September Convention, the underlying intention was to adjourn Roma capitale to the Greek kalends.
From Cavour by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess Evelyn
In it the kalends were found by the Grecian almanacks.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 by Motteux, Peter Anthony
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