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calends
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Calends
(gcide) | Calends \Cal"ends\, n. pl. [OE. kalendes month, calends, AS.
calend month, fr. L. calendae; akin to calare to call,
proclaim, Gr. ??????. CF. Claim.]
The first day of each month in the ancient Roman calendar.
[Written also kalends.]
[1913 Webster]
The Greek calends, a time that will never come, as the
Greeks had no calends.
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Calends
(gcide) | Calends \Cal"ends\, n. pl. [OE. kalendes month, calends, AS.
calend month, fr. L. calendae; akin to calare to call,
proclaim, Gr. ??????. CF. Claim.]
The first day of each month in the ancient Roman calendar.
[Written also kalends.]
[1913 Webster]
The Greek calends, a time that will never come, as the
Greeks had no calends.
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Greek calends
(gcide) | Greek \Greek\, a. [AS. grec, L. Graecus, Gr. ?: cf. F. grec. Cf.
Grecian.]
Of or pertaining to Greece or the Greeks; Grecian.
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Greek calends. See under Greek calends in the vocabulary.
Greek Church (Eccl. Hist.), the Eastern Church; that part
of Christendom which separated from the Roman or Western
Church in the ninth century. It comprises the great bulk
of the Christian population of Russia (of which this is
the established church), Greece, Moldavia, and Wallachia.
The Greek Church is governed by patriarchs and is called
also the Byzantine Church.
Greek cross. See Illust. (10) Of Cross.
Greek Empire. See Byzantine Empire.
Greek fire, a combustible composition which burns under
water, the constituents of which are supposed to be
asphalt, with niter and sulphur. --Ure.
Greek rose, the flower campion.
[1913 Webster]Greek calends \Greek calends\ or Greek kalends \Greek kalends\
A time that will never come, as the Greeks had no calends.
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The Greek calends
(gcide) | Calends \Cal"ends\, n. pl. [OE. kalendes month, calends, AS.
calend month, fr. L. calendae; akin to calare to call,
proclaim, Gr. ??????. CF. Claim.]
The first day of each month in the ancient Roman calendar.
[Written also kalends.]
[1913 Webster]
The Greek calends, a time that will never come, as the
Greeks had no calends.
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