kalends
Britishplural noun
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This year was King Edward slain at even-tide, at Corfe-gate, on the fifteenth before the kalends of April, and then was he buried at Wareham, without any kind of kingly honours.
From The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle by Ingram, J. H. (James Henry)
But she knows no more of the mysteries of housekeeping than she does of the Latin kalends.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
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
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)
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
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