kalends
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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In it the kalends were found by the Grecian almanacks.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 by Peter Anthony Motteux
It commences with the feast of the Circumcision:— "At the head of the congregated saints Let the King take the front place; Unto the noble dispensation did submit Christ—on the kalends of January."
From An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 by Mary Frances Cusack
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 J. H. (James Henry) Ingram
It was a clear morning and the tenth day before the kalends of January.
From Vergilius A Tale of the Coming of Christ by Irving Bacheller
In the arrangement subsequently arrived at under the name of the September Convention, the underlying intention was to adjourn Roma capitale to the Greek kalends.
From Cavour by Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco
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