Crossword clues for calends
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
The Greek calends, a time that will never come, as the Greeks had no calends. [1913 Webster] ||
Wiktionary
n. 1 the first day of a month. 2 the first day of a season.
Wikipedia
The calends or kalends is the first day of every month in the Roman calendar. The English word Calendar is derived from this word.
Usage examples of "calends".
Their regular meetings were held on three stated days in every month, the Calends, the Nones, and the Ides.
Some of the most sacred festivals in the Roman ritual were destined to salute the new calends of January with vows of public and private felicity.
On the calends of January, at break of day, the new consuls, Mamertinus and Nevitta, hastened to the palace to salute the emperor.
I swear by the great Serapis, that unless, on the calends of December, Athanasius has departed from Alexandria, nay, from Egypt, the officers of your government shall pay a fine of one hundred pounds of gold.
The naval victory of the Hellespont is fixed to the month Apellaeus, the tenth of the Calends of January, (December 23.
In the speeches which Justin addressed to the senate and people, he promised to correct the abuses which had disgraced the age of his predecessor, displayed the maxims of a just and beneficent government, and declared that, on the approaching calends of January, ^3 he would revive in his own person the name and liberty of a Roman consul.
That was upon the sixth day before the calends of February in the 848th year of the city in the second year of Nerva's reign.
Probably a couple of the Calends or Chronons, who had come to Azlaroc to see their death sentence finally executed upon Chang Timmins.
Would the Calends and the Chronons think then that time was ruling the universe any more firmly than before?
Toward the evening of that day, which was the calends of January, he fixed his camp at Ruspina.
He himself on the sixth day before the calends of February, ordering the scouts and lictors to attend him at six in the evening, drew out all the legions at midnight, and directed his march toward Ruspina, where he had a garrison, and which had first declared in his favor, no one knowing or having the least suspicion of his design.
He likewise confiscated the estates of some who had been more active than the rest, and weighing from Carales on the third day before the calends of July, coasted along the shore, and after a voyage of twenty-eight days, during which he was several times obliged by contrary winds to put into port, arrived safe at Rome.
Their regular meetings were held on three stated days in every month, the Calends, the Nones, and the Ides.
Some of the most sacred festivals in the Roman ritual were destined to salute the new calends of January with vows of public and private felicity.
The naval victory of the Hellespont is fixed to the month Apellaeus, the tenth of the Calends of January, (December 23.