ecclesiastical calendar
Americannoun
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a calendar based on the lunisolar cycle, used by many Christian churches in determining the dates for the movable feasts.
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Also called church calendar. a calendar of the Christian year, indicating the days and seasons for fasts and festivals.
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Yes: on the medieval ecclesiastical calendar, food intake was restricted in one way or another for more than a hundred and eighty days per year.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 4, 2015
Copernicus parries with an explanation that their work will systemize the ecclesiastical calendar, allowing the church “to calculate the correct date of Easter each year.”
From New York Times • Oct. 17, 2011
Tens of thousands of British teens flock to such festivals and they have become an established fixture of the ecclesiastical calendar.
From The Guardian • Aug. 10, 2011
"Pio Nono" was a strong-willed prelate whom many will have difficulty visualizing as a saint on the same ecclesiastical calendar with Francis of Assisi or Paul of Tarsus.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lunar Cycle and Golden Number.—In connecting the lunar month with the solar year, the framers of the ecclesiastical calendar adopted the period of Meton, or lunar cycle, which they supposed to be exact.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" by Various
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