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- Calendar - n. - An orderly arrangement of the division of time, adapted to the purposes of civil life, as years, months, weeks, and days; also, a register of the year with its divisions; an almanac.
- Calendar - n. - A tabular statement of the dates of feasts, offices, saints' days, etc., esp. of those which are liable to change yearly according to the varying date of Easter.
- Calendar - n. - An orderly list or enumeration of persons, things, or events; a schedule; as, a calendar of state papers; a calendar of bills presented in a legislative assembly; a calendar of causes arranged for trial in court; a calendar of a college or an academy.
- Calendar - v. t. - To enter or write in a calendar; to register.
- Calendared - imp. & p. p. - of Calendar
- Calendarial - a. - Of or pertaining to the calendar or a calendar.
- Calendaring - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Calendar
- Calendary - a. - Calendarial.
- Intercalary - a. - Inserted or introduced among others in the calendar; as, an intercalary month, day, etc.; -- now applied particularly to the odd day (Feb. 29) inserted in the calendar of leap year. See Bissextile, n.
- Docket - n. - A list or calendar of causes ready for hearing or trial, prepared for the use of courts by the clerks.
- Menology - n. - A brief calendar of the lives of the saints for each day in the year, or a simple remembrance of those whose lives are not written.
- Brumaire - n. - The second month of the calendar adopted by the first French republic. It began thirty days after the autumnal equinox. See Vendemiaire.
- Ventose - a. - The sixth month of the calendar adopted by the first French republic. It began February 19, and ended March 20. See Vend/miaire.
- New Year's Day - - the first day of a calendar year; the first day of January. Often colloquially abbreviated to New year's or new year.
- Docket - n. - A list or calendar of business matters to be acted on in any assembly.
- Calendar - n. - An orderly list or enumeration of persons, things, or events; a schedule; as, a calendar of state papers; a calendar of bills presented in a legislative assembly; a calendar of causes arranged for trial in court; a calendar of a college or an academy.
- Metemptosis - n. - The suppression of a day in the calendar to prevent the date of the new moon being set a day too late, or the suppression of the bissextile day once in 134 years. The opposite to this is the proemptosis, or the addition of a day every 330 years, and another every 2,400 years.
- February - n. - The second month in the year, said to have been introduced into the Roman calendar by Numa. In common years this month contains twenty-eight days; in the bissextile, or leap year, it has twenty-nine days.
- Black-letter - a. - Of or pertaining to the days in the calendar not marked with red letters as saints' days. Hence: Unlucky; inauspicious.
- Messidor - n. - The tenth month of the French republican calendar dating from September 22, 1792. It began June 19, and ended July 18. See VendEmiaire.
- Germinal - n. - The seventh month of the French republican calendar [1792 -- 1806]. It began March 21 and ended April 19. See VendEmiaire.
- Almanac - n. - A book or table, containing a calendar of days, and months, to which astronomical data and various statistics are often added, such as the times of the rising and setting of the sun and moon, eclipses, hours of full tide, stated festivals of churches, terms of courts, etc.
- Calendarial - a. - Of or pertaining to the calendar or a calendar.
- Epact - n. - The moon's age at the beginning of the calendar year, or the number of days by which the last new moon has preceded the beginning of the year.
- Pluviose - n. - The fifth month of the French republican calendar adopted in 1793. It began January 20, and ended February 18. See Vendemiaire.
- Twelvemonth - n. - A year which consists of twelve calendar months.