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Webster 1913 Edition
Calendar
Cal′en-dar
,Noun.
[OE.
kalender
, calender
, fr. L. kalendarium
an interest or account book (cf. F. calendrier
, OF. calendier
) fr. L. calendue
, kalendae
, calends. See Calends
.] 1.
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.
2.
(Eccl.)
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.
3.
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 academyShepherds of people had need know the calendars of tempests of state.
Bacon.
Calendar clock
, one that shows the days of the week and month.
– Calendar month
. See under
– Month
. French Republican calendar
. See under
– Vendémiaire
. Gregorian calendar
, Julian calendar
, Perpetual calendar
Cal′en-dar
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Calendared
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Calendaring
.] To enter or write in a calendar; to register.
Waterhouse.
Webster 1828 Edition
Calendar
CALENDAR
,Noun.
1.
A register of the year, in which the months, weeks, and days are set down in order, with the feasts observed by the church, &c.; an almanack. It was so named from the Roman Calendoe, the name given to the first day of the month, and written, in large letters, at the head of each month. [See Calends.]2.
A list of prisoners in the custody of the sheriff.3.
An orderly table or enumeration of persons of things. Calendar-month, a solar month as it stands in Almanacks.CALENDAR
,Verb.
T.