kalends
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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This year died Living the eloquent bishop, on the tenth before the kalends of April, and he had three bishoprics; one in Devonshire, and in Cornwall, and in Worcester.
From The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle by Ingram, J. H. (James Henry)
Then he tells his friend very abruptly that his father died that year on the eighth day before the kalends of December—on the 24th of November.
From The Life of Cicero Volume One by Trollope, Anthony
She departed this life on the 15 kalends of December, being 66 y�eres of age.
From Chronicles 1 (of 6): The Historie of England 5 (of 8) The Fift Booke of the Historie of England. by Holinshed, Raphael
The archbishop Theodore came thus vnto his church of Canturburie in the second yeare after his consecration, about the second kalends of June, being sundaie.
From Chronicles 1 (of 6): The Historie of England 5 (of 8) The Fift Booke of the Historie of England. by Holinshed, Raphael
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)
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