- a variation of calends.
kalends
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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Bingham also cites Augustine as saying that it was the current tradition that Christ was born on the eighth of the kalends of January, that is, on the 25th of December.
From Notes and Queries, Number 74, March 29, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George
That was the thirteenth day before the kalends of April.
From The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle by Ingram, J. H. (James Henry)
This year King Harold died at Oxford, on the sixteenth before the kalends of April, and he was buried at Westminster.
From The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle by Ingram, J. H. (James Henry)
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
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 Motteux, Peter Anthony
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