calemes (kalemez)

Same as camenes. calendar (kal'en-dar), n. [Early mod. E. also calender; several quantities, these quantities will, in consequence of these equations, vary together, so that there will be equations between their rates of change, the differential or infinitely small increment of a variable being denoted by the letter d written before the symbol denoting the variable. The differential calculus treats of the values of calendæ, the name given to the first day of the mouth, and written in large letters at the head of each mouth. Let this pernicious hour Stand aye accursed in the calendar ! Shak ., Macbeth, iv. 1. The Egyptians were the first to institute a sacred calen dar, in which every day - almost every hour - had its special religious ceremony. Faiths of the World, p. 140. 2. A system of reckoning time, especially the method of fixing the length and divisions of the year.-3. A table or tables of the days of each month in a year, with their numbers, for use in fixing dates.-4. A table or catalogue of persons, events, etc., made out in order of time, as a list of saints with the dates of their festivals, or of the causes to be tried in a court; specifically, in British universities, a chronological statement of the exercises, lectures, examinations, etc., of a year or of a course of study. The care I have had to even your content, I wish might be found in the calendar of my past endeavours. Shak., All's Well, i. 3. He keeps a calendar of all the famous dishes of meat that have been in the court ever since our great-grandfather's time. Beau, and Fl ., Woman-Hater, i. 1. Rhadamanthus, who tries the lighter causes below, leav Lamb , To the Shade of Elliston. 5t. A guide; anything set up to regulate one's conduct. ing to his two brethren the heavy calendars. Kalender is she To any woman that wol lover be. Chaucer, Good Women, 1. 542. 6. A series of emblematic pictures of the months: a common motive of decoration during the middle ages, in sculpture, painted gla , earthenware tiles, and the like. For each month the zodiacal sign is represented, with one or more persons engaged in labors or sports characteristic of the month. - Calendar - amendment Act, an English statute of 1751, which took effect in 1752, establishing January 1st as the beginning of each year (instead of Ladyday, March 25th), adopting the Greg or i an or "new style" in place of the Julian or "old style" calendar, and canceling the then existing exce of 11 days by making the 3d of September, 1752, the 14th. Also known as Lord Chesterfield's Act. --Calendar month, a solar month as it stands in almanacs. Calendar moon. Same as ecclesiastical moon (which see, under ecclesiastical ). - Ecclesiastical calendar, an arrangement of the civil year employed by the liturgical churches to designate the days set apart for particular religions celebration. As many feasts of the church depend upon Easter, the date of which varies from year to year, either the calendar must vary every year or must contain simply the matter from which a true calendar can be computed for each year. In the Roman Catholic Church, special circumstances in the history of each nation affect its liturgical calendar; hence every nation, and to some extent every religious order and even every ecclesiastical province, has its own calendar. The German Luther an Part of a Calendar of the 13th cen tury (July). - From portal of Amiens Cathedral. Church retained at the Reformation the Roman Catholic calendar, with the saints' days then observed. The Church of England still retains in its calendar certain festivals, called black-letter days, for which no service is prescribed, and which have been omitted by the Protestant Episcopal Church of America. See Easter. - Greg or i an calendar, the reformed Julian calendar introduced by the bull of Pope Gregory XIII. in February, 1582, and adopted in England in September, 1752; the "new style" of distributing and naming time. The length of the year of the Greg or i an calendar is regulated by the Greg or i an rule of intercalation, which is that every year whose number in the common reckoning since Christ is not divisible by 4, as well as every year whose number is divisible by 100 but not by 400, shall have 365 days, and that all other years, namely, those whose numbers are divisible by 400, and those divisible by 4 and not by 100, shall have 366 days. The Greg or i an year, or the mean length of the years of the Greg or i an calendar, is 365 days, 5 hours, 49 minutes, and 12 seconds, and is too long by 26 seconds. The Greg or i an rule has sometimes been stated as if the year 4000 and its multiples were to be common ory. the time of 763 the Greg or i an calendar. The Julian calendar, or "old style," is still retained in Ru ia and Greece, whose dates consequently are now 12 days in arrear of those of other Christian countries. - Mohammedan calendar, the lunar calendar employed in all Mohammedan countries, though there is another peculiar to Persia. The years consist of 354 or 355 days, in the mean 35444. The beginning of the year thus retrogrades through different seasons, completing their circuit in about 33 years. They are num calf