kalends

British  

/ ˈkælɪndz /

plural noun

1. a variant spelling of calends

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Example Sentences

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

They were formerly dated by kalends and from the era of the Incarnation, which begins on the 25th of March, but in 1908 Pius X. ordered them to be dated according to the common era.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various

They commenced with the kalends; the nones occurred on the fifth, and the ides on the thirteenth, except in March, May, July, and October, when they fell on the seventh and fifteenth.

From Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed) by Dillaway, Charles K.

There, the seventh day before the kalends, in the middle hour of the night, you shall see a beacon-fire and near it my colors.

From Vergilius A Tale of the Coming of Christ by Bacheller, Irving

Then spring was gone Except six nights ere coming of summer On the kalends of May.

From Elene; Judith; Athelstan, or the Fight at Brunanburh; Byrhtnoth, or the Fight at Maldon; and the Dream of the Rood Anglo-Saxon Poems by Garnett, James Mercer