单词 | calends |
释义 | calendskalendsn. 1. a. The first day of any month in the Roman calendar: the term was more or less retained in actual use down to the 17th cent.The Romans reckoned the days forward to the Kalends, Nones, or Ides next following. Thus, ‘on the 27th of May’ was ‘ante diem sextum Kalendas Junias’. This was loosely rendered into English as ‘the sixth of the Kalends of June’, or ‘the sixth Kalends of June’. Cf. nones n.1, ides n. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > cycle of time > cycle of the year > [noun] > kalends calends1398 she-calendsa1661 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) ix. xxi. 359 The fyrste daye of a monthe hath the name of Kalendis. ?a1400 Morte Arth. 345 By the kalendez of Juny we schalle encountre ones. c1420 Pallad. on Husb. iii. 30 In Marche Kalendes in the soile ydight. c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 93 A waytiþ not þeis Egipcian daies, þat we call dysmal, ne kalendis of Janiuer. 1496 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (de Worde) i. xlvii. 87/2 The fyrste daye of the yere, that is the fyrste Kalendas of Januarye. 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 1239/1 In the yeare of our redemption, one thousand, one hundred, thirtie and three, the fift calends of Iune, being the three and thirtith yeare of the reigne of Henrie the first. 1598 R. Hakluyt tr. W. de Rubruquis in Princ. Navigations (new ed.) I. 94 Wee tooke our iourney..about the kalends of June. 1629 P. Massinger Roman Actor v. i. sig. I4 Thou Shalt dye to morrow being the fourteenth of The Kalends of October. 1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 337 Those that belonged to the City, marched out safe the Seventh of the Calends of August. a1764 R. Lloyd Two Odes in Wks. (1774) I. 121 On thy blest Calends, April. 1806 J. Lingard Antiq. Anglo-Saxon Church I. v. 218 On the calends of May and November. b. With reference to debts and interest being then due: Settling day. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > stock exchange accounting period > settlement > settlement day calends1644 settling day1806 account day1815 accounting day1832 payday1858 settlement day1896 1644 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce (ed. 2) To Parl. sig. A4 How they will compound, and in what Calends. a. In Old English A month; also, appointed time, season. ΚΠ a1000 Menol. (Gr.) 7 Se kalendus kymeð..us to tune; hine folc mycel Januarius heton. a1000 Menol. (Gr.) 31 Kalend..Martius reðe. a1000 Solomon & Saturn 479 Ær se dæg cyme, þæt sy his calend cwide (?) arunnen. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > Jewish seasons and feasts > festival of new moon > [noun] new moonOE calendsa1382 neomenyc1384 neomeniaa1398 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. i. 14 Ȝoure kalendis and ȝoure solempnetees hatede my soule [a1425 my soule hatith ȝoure calendis]. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) 1 Sam. xx. 5 David seide to Jonathan, Loo! Kalendis ben to morwe. 1567 J. Jewel Def. Apol. Churche Eng. i. ix. §3. 66 God commanded the people to kepe the Calendes and Newe Moones. 1609 Bible (Douay) I. Num. xxviii. 11 In the Calendes you shal offer an holocaust to the Lord [1382 Wyclif, In the calendis forsothe, that is, in the bigynnyngis of monthes]. 3. Phrases. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > other types of accounts calends of exchangec1374 scorea1400 pipe1455 mensalc1475 profit and loss1553 stock1588 bank account1671 lump-account1699 revenue account1703 profit and loss account1721 sundry1736 drawing account1737 stock account?1768 private account1772 trading account1780 Flemish account1785 capital account1813 embankment1813 cost account1817 cash-credit1832 current account1846 savings account1850 deposit account1851 suspense account1869 control account1908 checking account1923 ghost account1933 numbered account1963 budget account1969 ISA1975 MSA1993 c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde v. 1647 This Troylus this lettre thought al straunge..Hym thought it like a Kalendes of chaunge. 1470 J. Hardyng Chron. xiii. i Brutus..called this Isle Briteyn..So was the name of this ilke Albyon All sette on side in Kalandes of achaunge. 1470 J. Hardyng Chron. lxxii. ii Her goodlyhede..chaunged all his corage and manhede, In Kalandes of eschaunge he was [so] impressed. b. on (at) the Greek Calends (Latin ad Græcas kalendas): humorous for Never; since the Greeks used no calends in their reckoning of time. ΘΚΠ the world > time > frequency > infrequency > [adverb] > never neverOE ne'erc1275 late?a1439 naya1547 Latter Lammas1559 when the devil is blind1645 on (at) the Greek Calendsa1649 Queen Dick1652 tomorrow come never1660 nowhena1767 on Tib's Eve1785 a1649 W. Drummond Wks. (1711) 185 That Gold, Plate, and all Silver given to the Mint-House in these late Troubles, shall be paid at the Greek Kalends. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia (at cited word) At the Greek Calends, never; for the Greks have no Calends. 1872 O. W. Holmes Poet at Breakfast-table i. 18 His friends looked for it only on the Greek Calends, say on the 31st of April, when that should come round, if you would modernize the phrase. 1882 Macmillan's Mag. 46 253 So we go on..and the works are sent to the Greek Calends. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > [noun] > the first part or beginning > the earliest stage(s) beginningc1200 calendsc1374 crepusculum1398 childhood1549 infancy1555 rudiments1566 primordium1577 primitives1602 inchoation1652 inceptive1728 incunabula1824 baby step1825 inchoate1845 incipiency1858 incipience1864 c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde ii. Prol. 7 Now of hope the kalendis bygynne. c1380 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. xiv, in Sel. Wks. II. 261 Kalendis of þis siȝt hadde Poul whan he was ravyshed. 1423 Kingis Quair vi. v Gave me in hert kalendis of confort. a1618 W. Raleigh Remains (1644) 114 What is age, but the Calends of death? 5. A calendar, record. (Also in singular. rare.) ΘΚΠ the world > time > reckoning of time > calendar > [noun] calendarc1340 calends1470 reckoningc1480 compute1483 compost1535 ephemeris1597 computus1675 year count1894 society > communication > record > [noun] > a record chroniclec1380 record1399 calends1470 blazon1574 calendara1616 anagraph1656 remembrancer1671 society > faith > aspects of faith > holiness > saint > [noun] > collective > list of rubric1587 calendar1601 calends1601 calendary1694 1470 J. Hardyng Chron. ccxl. xxix I make you a kalende Of all the waie to Edenbourgth. 1590 R. Greene Mourning Garment 41 Their lookes are like Calendes, that can determine no certaintie. 1601 J. Weever Mirror of Martyrs sig. Fiijv Him for a Saint within your Kalends hold. 1866 E. H. Bickersteth Yesterday, To-day, & For Ever xii. 384 Festivals that stand On the sidereal calends mark'd in light. 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