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anniversaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Anniversary \An`ni*ver"sa*ry\, n.; pl. Anniversaries. [Cf. F. anniversaire.]
The annual return of the day on which any notable event took place, or is wont to be celebrated; as, the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
(R. C. Ch.) The day on which Mass is said yearly for the soul of a deceased person; the commemoration of some sacred event, as the dedication of a church or the consecration of a pope.
The celebration which takes place on an anniversary day.
--Dryden.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of anniversary English)
Usage examples of "anniversaries".
War on Sunday, on the old calendar and on fasting, obligatory rest on the décadi under penalty of fine and imprisonment,[92] obligatory fêtes on the anniversaries of January 21 and Fructidor 18, participation of all functionaries with their cult, obligatory attendance of public and private instructors with their pupils of both sexes at civic ceremonies, an obligatory liturgy with catechisms and programmes sent from Paris, rules for scenic display and for singings, readings, postures, acclamations and imprecations.
I think the Zodiac could be lured out to grave sites or memorial services on the anniversaries of the murders.
We, too, have our anniversaries, our relics, the relics of Chalier and Marat,[97] our processions, our services, our ritual,[98] and the vast system of visible pageantry by which dogmas are made manifest and propagated.
She saves that for special evenings—birthdays, anniversaries, when the moon is in the seventh house, when Jupiter is aligned with Mars, that kind of thing.
I'd like you to get their names from the computer, plus a list of the wedding anniversaries of those who're married.
Mother has celebrated it just as usual, though I know all these anniversaries which used to be so pleasant, must be sad days to her now my dear father has gone.