kalends
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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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 F. A. (Frances Alice) Forbes
The judgment or decree shall be given out and pronounced at the next Greek kalends, that is, never.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 by Peter Anthony Motteux
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 Archibald Forbes
And, save for six nights ere the coming of summer on the kalends of May, the spring was gone.
From The Elene of Cynewulf translated into English prose by Lucius Hudson Holt
In it the kalends were found by the Grecian almanacks.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 by Peter Anthony Motteux
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