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‖ fasti|ˈfæstaɪ|
[Lat. fastī, pl. of fastus (dies) a ‘lawful’ day, a day on which the courts sat: hence as under.]
a. Rom. Ant. A calendar or calendars, indicating the lawful days for legal business, and also the festivals, games, anniversaries of historical events, etc., connected with each day of the year. consular fasti (L. fasti consulares): the register of the events occurring during the official year of a pair of consuls; the series of such registers.
b. transf. A chronological register of events; annals, chronological tables or lists of office-holders.
1611B. Jonson Catiline v. iv, Let it [this day] be added to our Fasti. a1670Hacket Abp. Williams i. §26 (1693) 20 Like Consuls that acted nothing, and were useful for nothing but to have the Fasti known by their Names. 1691Wood (title), Athenæ Oxonienses..To which are added the Fasti or Annals, of the said University. 1734E. Corsini (title), Fasti of the Archons of Athens. 1786H. More Florio 967 Still, in Life's Fasti, you presume Eternal holidays will come. 1814Edin. Rev. XXIV. 245 A country [the U.S.]..whose fasti are consecrated to record our cruelties and defeats. 1880C. T. Newton Art & Archæol. 15 Roman coins are not Fasti..yet the labour of numismatists has made [them] almost the best authority for the chronology of the Roman empire. |