calendarn.
/ˈkalᵻndə/, U.S. /ˈkæləndər/ 1. The system according to which the beginning and length of successive civil years, and the subdivision of the year into its parts, is fixed; as the Babylonian, Jewish, Roman, or Arabic calendar. Julian Calendar n. the calendar introduced by Julius Caesar b.c. 46, in which the ordinary year has 365 days, and every fourth year is a leap year of 366 days, the months having the names, order, and length still retained. Gregorian Calendar n. the modification of the preceding adapted to bring it into closer conformity with astronomical data and the natural course of the seasons, and to rectify the error already contracted by its use, introduced by Pope Gregory XIII in a.d. 1582, and adopted in Great Britain in 1752. See style n.
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the world > time > reckoning of time > calendar > [noun] > as a system
calendarc1275
calendaryc1450
the world > time > reckoning of time > calendar > [noun] > specific calendars
Gregorian Calendarc1275
Julian Calendarc1275
fastia1387
almanacc1392
prognostication1486
shepherd's calendar1506
ephemeris1559
perpetual almanac?1566
perpetual calendar1577
ephemeris1647
primstaff1662
rim-stock1662
parapegma1671
Poor Robin1708
menologium1709
menologion1727
rune-staff1753
Liberian Calendar1754
parapegm1755
timetable1758
prognosticator1779
Hindu calendar1795
Moore's Almanac1806
Moorea1821
numeral1853
Advent calendar1867
paddywhack almanac1875
paddy1876
Islamic calendar1912
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 3599 He [Julius Caesar] makede þane kalender.
a1300 Cursor Mundi 24916 Þat moneth Þat man clepes..Decembre in þe kalunder.
1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (1865) I. 247 Som monþe in þe kalendere haþ but foure Nonas, and som haþ sixe.
1413 J. Lydgate Pilgr. of Sowle v. i. 73 The competister in the Craft of the Kalendar he cleped seculum the tyme of an honderd yeere.
1611 M. Smith in Bible (King James) Transl. Pref. 2 When he [Cæsar] corrected the Calender, and ordered the yeere according to the course of the Sunne.
1854 L. Tomlinson tr. D. F. J. Arago Pop. Lect. Astron. 188 The Arabic calendar, which is that of the Mahometans, is exclusively based on the course of the moon.
1855 D. Brewster Mem. Life I. Newton (new ed.) II. xxiii. 311 When the public attention was called to the reformation of the Kalendar.
1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits x. 160 Roger Bacon explained the precession of the equinoxes, [and] the consequent necessity of the reform of the calendar.
1886 R. Thomson Relig. Humanity 20 The founder of the Church [Aug. Comte] drew up its calendar..Each of the thirteen lunar months of the year is sacred to the memory of a great leader of humanity.
2.
a. A table showing the division of a given year into its months and days, and referring the days of each month to the days of the week; often also including important astronomical data, and indicating ecclesiastical or other festivals, and other events belonging to individual days. Sometimes containing only facts and dates belonging to a particular profession or pursuit, as Gardener's Calendar, Racing Calendar, etc. Also a series of tables, giving these facts more fully; an almanac.
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the world > time > reckoning of time > calendar > [noun]
calendarc1340
calends1470
reckoningc1480
compute1483
compost1535
ephemeris1597
computus1675
year count1894
c1340 Alisaunder 623 If any wight..wilnes þem [þe twelue signes] knowe, Kairus to þe Kalender · & kenne yee may.
c1400 ( G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe (Cambr. Dd.3.53) (1872) i. §11. 7 The names of the halidayes in the kalender.
1481 W. Caxton tr. Myrrour of Worlde ii. xxxi. 126 This is xii tymes so moche & more ouer as the calender enseigneth.
1549 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16267) sig. A.i heading The Table and Kalender, expressing the ordre of the Psalmes and Lessons.
a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) iii. i. 12 What hath this day deseru'd?.. That it in golden letters should be set Among the high tides in the Kalender ? View more context for this quotation
a1634 W. Austin Devotionis Augustinianæ Flamma (1635) 207 Our Church keeps no Solemnitie for his [John the Baptist's] Death (though the Remembrance of it be in her Calender).
1759 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. Pref. The Gardeners Kalendar which was inserted in the former editions of this book.
1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller II. 38 Greatness..of a kind not to be settled by reference to the court calendar.
1846 J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) II. App. 423 Agricultural Calendar.
1879 Printing Trades Jrnl. xxviii. 11 Almanacks and calendars in great variety.
b. A contrivance for reckoning days, months, etc.
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the world > time > reckoning of time > calendar > [noun] > a contrivance used as
clog1686
calendar1719
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 74 Every seventh Notch was as long again as the rest, and every first Day of the Month as long again as that long one, and thus I kept my Kalander.
1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey II. 31 A little calendar of small sticks..notch'd all over with the dismal days and nights he [sc. a captive] had pass'd there.
1863 T. Wright in Macmillan's Mag. Jan. 173 The Roman calendar of marble..presented the more prominent attributes of the modern almanac.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > prototype > [noun] > model, pattern, or example
byseningc1175
mirrora1300
samplera1300
formc1384
calendarc1385
patternc1425
exemplar?a1439
lighta1450
projectc1450
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platform1574
module1608
paradigma1623
specimen1642
butt1654
paradigm1669
type1847
fore-mark1863
model1926
c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women 542 Thou..woste well that kalender ys she To any woman that wull louer be.
c1400 Epiph. in W. B. D. D. Turnbull Visions of Tundale (1843) 115 Lete hem afore be to yow a Kalendere.
1413 St. Trials Hen. V (R.) Images..introduced..by the permission of the church, to be as a calendar to the laity and the ignorant.
c1426 J. Audelay Poems (1931) 25 Be a clene kalender þe sekelers on to see.
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet v. ii. 107 + 4 Hee is the card or kalender of gentry.
4.
a. A list or register of any kind. (In the general sense, now only figurative)
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society > communication > record > list > [noun]
tableOE
scorec1325
billa1340
calendar?a1400
legendc1400
librarya1450
Ragmanc1450
Ragman rollc1450
cataloguea1464
repertory1542
scrowa1545
bedroll?1552
roll1565
file1566
state1582
inventory1589
brief1600
series1601
counter-roll1603
list1604
muster roll1605
cense1615
pinax1625
repertoirec1626
diagram1631
recensiona1638
repertorium1667
vocabulary1694
albe1697
enumeration1725
screed1748
album1753
tableau1792
roll-call1833
shopping list1923
laundry list1958
remainder list1977
?a1400 Morte Arth. 2641 Kydd in his kalander a knyghte of his chambyre.
1479 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 429 To be called and named the Maire of Bristowe is Register, or ellis the Maire is Kalender.
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. xv. 107 He shoulde haue alwaies a little calender of them apart to vse readily.
1633 G. Herbert Temple: Sacred Poems 243 When Italie..shall..all her calender of sinnes fulfill.
1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity 207 The last time in Daniel's Kalendar of his Four Kingdoms.
1689 Myst. Iniq. 16 Registred in the Kalender with those that stood precluded the King's Favour.
a1854 H. Reed Lect. Brit. Poets (1857) iii. 81 The calendar which opens so nobly with the name of Chaucer, closes worthily in our day with that of Wordsworth.
b. esp. A list of canonized saints, or the like. (Now usually treated as a form of sense 2, the days dedicated to the memory of the saints being usually registered in the ‘calendar’ or almanac.)
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society > faith > aspects of faith > holiness > saint > [noun] > collective > list of
rubric1587
calendar1601
calends1601
calendary1694
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 346 When they receiued Æsculapius as a canonized god into their Kalender.
1631 W. Gouge Gods Three Arrowes iii. §45. 266 Such as the Holy Ghost registreth in the Kalender of true Saints.
1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xxxiii. 254 The calendar of martyrs received..a considerable augmentation.
1832 W. Irving Alhambra II. 256 Peace offerings to every saint in the Kalendar.
c. A list of prisoners for trial at the assizes.
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society > law > administration of justice > court papers > [noun] > roll of names of offenders > list of prisoners for trial
calendar1764
1591 Declar. Great Troubles against Realme To cause those Inquisitions, with their answeres to be put into writing..to keepe in a maner of a Register or Kalender.]
1764 R. Sanders (title) The Newgate Calendar.
1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. 376 The usage is, for the judge to sign the calendar, or list of all the prisoners' names.
1833 C. Lamb To Shade of Elliston in Last Ess. of Elia 32 Rhadamanthus..tries the lighter causes..leaving to his two brothers the heavy calendars.
1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits iv. 68 The crimes recorded in their calendars.
d. spec. A list or register of documents arranged chronologically with a short summary of the contents of each, so as to serve as an index to the documents of a given period.
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society > communication > record > written record > arrangement and storage of written records > [noun] > indexing > index
tablea1464
finder1588
index1660
calendar1830
1467 Ordin. Worcester in Eng. Gilds 370 The Kalender of the articles and acts afore specified.]
1830 (Rolls Series) (title) Calendars of the Proceedings in Chancery in the reign of Queen Elizabeth.
1856 (title) Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series of the Reign of Edward VI.
a. figurative. A record. Obsolete.
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society > communication > record > [noun] > a record
chroniclec1380
record1399
calends1470
blazon1574
calendara1616
anagraph1656
remembrancer1671
a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) i. iii. 4 The Kalender of my past endeuours. View more context for this quotation
1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. lvii. 169 His meritorious holy warre could never wipe it out of the Callendar of story.
a1718 W. Penn Tracts in Wks. (1726) I. 589 Once they were as Calendars, for weak People to read some Mystical Glory by.
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society > communication > indication > [noun] > an indication or sign
tokeningc888
fingereOE
senyeOE
markOE
showing?c1225
blossomc1230
signa1325
signifyingc1384
evidencea1393
notea1398
forbysena1400
kenninga1400
knowinga1400
showerc1400
unningc1400
signala1413
signification?a1425
demonstrancec1425
cenyc1440
likelinessc1450
ensign1474
signifure?a1475
outshowinga1500
significativea1500
witter1513
precedent1518
intimation1531
signifier1532
meith1533
monument1536
indicion?1541
likelihood1541
significator1554
manifest1561
show1561
evidency1570
token-teller1574
betokener1587
calendar1590
instance1590
testificate1590
significant1598
crisis1606
index1607
impression1613
denotementa1616
story1620
remark1624
indicium1625
denotation1633
indice1636
signum1643
indiction1653
trace1656
demonstrator1657
indication1660
notationa1661
significatory1660
indicator1666
betrayer1678
demonstration1684
smell1691
wittering1781
notaa1790
blazonry1850
sign vehicle1909
marker1919
rumble1927
1590 T. Lodge Euphues' Golden Legacie (1887) 13 Nor are the dimples in the face the calendars of truth.
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society > communication > record > written record > compiler or keeper of written records > [noun] > official in charge of records > of historical records
calendar1479
scrinerary1670
chartulary1678
scriniary1680
archivist1753
1479 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 417 The..prestis of the hous of the Kalenders of Bristowe.
?c1600 Office Mayor Bristol MS 287 The rites and liberties of the Kalenders, of the fraternitie of the church of All Saincts in Bristow, who were a brotherhood consisting of clergy and laymen, and kept the ancient recordes and mynaments, not onely of the towne, but also of other societes in other remote places.
Compounds
C1. attributive and in other combinations.
calendar-day n.
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society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > [noun] > of saint
commemorationa1400
suffragesa1400
saint's daya1450
memorial?1471
feast1559
memoration1563
name day1721
fête1805
Hallow-daya1825
calendar-day1847
fête day1877
slava1900
1847 R. W. Emerson Montaigne in Wks. (1906) I. 346 I mean to..celebrate the calendar-day of our Saint Michael de Montaigne.
1875 E. Poste tr. Gaius Institutionum Iuris Civilis (ed. 2) i. 101 A calendar day consisted of 24 hours measured from midnight to midnight.
calendar-holiday n.
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1713 ‘Philopatrius’ Refl. Sach——l's Thanksgiving-day 8 I..consulted my Almanack, and found it was no Calendar Holiday.
calendar-saint n.
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1679 Established Test 40 The Catalogue of their Calender Saints.
C2.
calendar-clock n. a clock which indicates the days of the week or month.
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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun] > other types of clock
watch-clock1592
German clock1598
quarter clocka1631
wheel-clock1671
table clocka1684
month clock1712
astronomical clock1719
musical clock1721
repeater1725
Tompion1727
pulling clock1733
regulator1735
eight-day clock1741
regulator clock1750
French clock1757
repetition clock1765
day clock1766
striker1778
chiming clock1789
cuckoo-clock1789
night clock1823
telltale1827
carriage clock1828
fly-clock1830
steeple clock1830
telltale clock1832
skeleton clock1842
telegraph clock1842
star clock1850
weight-clock1850
prison clock1853
crystal clock1854
pillar scroll top clock1860
sheep's-head clock1872
presentation clock1875
pillar clock1880
stop-clock1881
Waterbury1882
calendar-clock1884
ting-tang clock1884
birdcage clock1886
sheep's head1887
perpetual calendar1892
bracket clock1894
Act of Parliament clock1899
cartel clock1899
banjo-clock1903
master clock1904
lantern clock1913
time clock1919
evolutionary clock1922
lancet clock1922
atomic clock1927
quartz clock1934
clock radio1946
real-time clock1953
organ clock1956
molecular clock1974
travelling clock2014
1884 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (new ed.) 38 Calendar Clock [or] Calendar Watch, a clock or watch that denotes the progress of the calendar.
calendar-court n. a court of justice held on a day appointed in the calendar.
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society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > [noun] > court held on appointed day
calendar-court1865
1865 Morning Star 26 May The court was not a calendar court.
calendar month n. one of the twelve months into which the year is divided according to the calendar; also the space of time from any day of any such month to the corresponding day of the next, as opposed to a lunar month of four weeks.
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the world > time > period > a month or calendar month > [noun]
montheOE
moonshine1608
menology1807
calendar month1827
mo1836
thirty days1928
1827 T. Jarman Powell's Ess. Learning of Devises (ed. 3) II. 255 Within six calendar months after his decease.
1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) II. x. 507 This whole revolution..took up less than one kalendar month.
calendar moon n. an imaginary moon used in determining the date of Easter.
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the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > moon > [noun] > calendar
ecclesiastical moon1712
calendar moon1877
the world > time > reckoning of time > calendar > [noun] > rule for determining Easter > calendar moon
ecclesiastical moon1712
calendar moon1877
1877 Encycl. Brit. VII. 615/1 This calendar moon is not the moon of the heavens, nor the mean moon of the astronomers.
1878 Bk. Common Prayer acc. to Use Church of Ireland The Moon referred to in the definition of Easter-Day is not the actual Moon of the Heavens, but the Calendar Moon, or Moon of the Lunar Cycle, which is counted as full on its fourteenth day.
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calendar year n. a period of twelve months, esp. the period of 365 days (or 366 days in a leap year) starting from the first of January (as distinguished from such a period starting at another date, e.g. academic year, financial year; cf. year n. 3c).
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the world > time > period > year > [noun] > reckoned in a specific way
yearOE
year1597
calendar year1689
1689 Gloria Britannica (title page) With every man's pay, from a captain to a cabin-boy; truly calculated and cast up, for a day, a week, a month, and a kalendar year, or 13 months and 1 day.
1749 M. Mendez Chaplet i. i. 4 I have lik'd you a Twelve-month, a Calendar Year.
1753 Parl. Hist. Eng. X. 155 Thus ends the Calendar Year of 1641.
1809 Amer. Reg. 5 81/1 The annual consumption of imported salt for each of the calendar years 1802—1807.
1864 Chambers's Encycl. VI. 155/1 These early collections of prayers generally contained also compositions from the hand of the compiler, and minor additions, such as ethical tracts, almanacs, &c., and were called Siddurim (Orders, Rituals), embracing the whole calendar year, week-days and new moons, fast and festivals.
1959 Boys' Life Apr. 56/2 Proof Coins are struck only at the Philadelphia Mint, and during the calendar year signified by the date on the coin.
2006 Independent 10 Jan. 8/2 (caption) He ended 2005 with the best-selling album over a calendar year in UK chart history, shifting more than 2.3 million copies.
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† calendaradj.
Obsolete. rare.
Of the calends: applied to the Curia calabra at the Capitol at Rome, where the calends were proclaimed.
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1553 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Eneados viii. xi. 29 Nere the chimmis calendare.
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calendarv.
/ˈkaləndə/ 1. transitive. To register in a calendar or list; to register, record.
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society > communication > record > written record > record in writing [verb (transitive)]
writeeOE
awriteeOE
markOE
titlea1325
record1340
registera1393
accordc1450
chronicle1460
to write upa1475
calendar1487
enrol1530
prickc1540
scripture1540
to set down1562
report1600
reservea1616
tabulatea1646
to take down1651
actuate1658
to commit to writing (also paper)1695
to mark down1881
slate1883
1487 Act 3 Hen. VII iii The names of every such prisoner..to be kalendred by fore the justices for the delyveraunce of the same gaole.
1547 Act 1 Edw. VI v. §5 The said Wardens shall cause the Number of the said Horses..to be kalendered in a Book.
1624 T. Heywood Γυναικεῖον iii. 150 Let that day never be callendred to memorise them.
1697 View Penal Laws 97 He shall shew his Licence to one of the Wardens of the Marches (that their number may be Kalendred).
1870 R. W. Emerson Society & Solitude 151 Life was then calendared by moments.
2. spec.
a. To register in the calendar of saints or saints' days.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > holiness > saint > canonization > perform canonization [verb (transitive)]
canonizec1380
sanctify1390
saint1487
to shrine (a person) for a saint1530
portess1570
rubricate1570
holy1578
calendar1597
beheaven1601
besainta1603
templify1615
beatify1629
beatificate1636
society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > observe (feast, etc.) [verb (transitive)] > register in calendar
calendar1597
1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxxii. 205 Wee are generally more apt to Kalender Saints then sinners dayes.
a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) i. 55 The Divines of Colen, calendred Aristotle for a Saint.
1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 21 (R.) Oft martyred names, as well as men, are calendared.
1842 Ld. Tennyson St. Simeon Stylites in Poems (new ed.) II. 59 Holy men, whose names Are register'd and calendar'd for saints.
b. To arrange, analyse, and index (documents): see calendar n. 4d.
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society > communication > record > written record > arrangement and storage of written records > arrange and store written records [verb (transitive)] > index
alphabet1671
alphabetize1691
calendar1859
card index1891
1859 H. T. Riley Munimenta Gildhallæ Londoniensis I. Introd. p. xxi These books..that are thus calendared.
1878 N. Amer. Rev. 126 540 Treasures of the Record-Office..lately calendered and indexed.
1881 Sat. Rev. 24 Sept. 395/1 The task of analysing and calendaring [state-]papers.
Derivatives
ˈcalendaring n.
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society > communication > record > written record > [noun] > action of recording in writing
recordationa1500
entrance1588
reportinga1626
calendaring1671
entry1712
recordal1822
committal1833
chalking1849
paperwork1861
chronicling1863
overbooking1902
rapportage1903
notarization1930
1671 F. Philipps Regale Necessarium Ep. Ded. sig. b2 Allowances of Money..for the Calendring and well ordering of them.
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