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• CALENDAR
  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
• CALENDARIAL
  Of or pertaining to the calendar or a calendar.
• CALENDARY
  Calendarial.
• MOHAMMEDAN CALENDAR
  A lunar calendar reckoning from the year of the hegira, 622 a. d. Thirty of its years constitute a cycle, of which the 2d, 5th, 7th, 10th, 13th, 16th, 18th, 21st, 24th, 26th, and 29th are leap years, having 355 days; the others are common, having
• HINDOO CALENDAR; HINDU CALENDAR
  A lunisolar calendar of India, according to which the year is divided into twelve months, with an extra month inserted after every month in which two new moons occur . The intercalary month has the name of the one which precedes it. The
• HEBREW CALENDAR
  = Jewish calendar.
• ROMAN CALENDAR
  The calendar of the ancient Romans, from which our modern calendars are derived. It is said to have consisted originally of ten months, Martius, Aprilis, Maius, Junius, Quintilis, Sextilis, September, October, November, and December, having a total
• PERPETUAL CALENDAR
  A calendar that can be used perpetually or over a wide range of years. That of Capt. Herschel covers, as given below, dates from 1750 to 1961 only, but is capable of indefinite extension. PERPETUAL CALENDAR Day of the monthJan. Oct.Apr.
• ENCALENDAR
  To register in a calendar; to calendar. Drayton.
• GREEK CALENDAR
  1. Any of various calendars used by the ancient Greek states. The Attic calendar divided the year into twelve months of 29 and 30 days, as follows: 1. Hecatombæon . 2. Metageitnion . 3. Boëdromion . 4. Pyanepsion . 5. Mæmacterion
• JEWISH CALENDAR
  A lunisolar calendar in use among Hebraic peoples, reckoning from the year 3761 b. c., the date traditionally given for the Creation. It received its present fixed form from Hillel II. about 360 a. d. The present names of the months, which