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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gregorian \Gre*go"ri*an\, a. [NL. Gregorianus, fr. Gregorius Gregory, Gr. ?: cf. F. gr['e]gorien.] Pertaining to, or originated by, some person named Gregory, especially one of the popes of that name.
Gregorian calendar, the calendar as reformed by Pope Gregory XIII. in 1582, including the method of adjusting the leap years so as to harmonize the civil year with the solar, and also the regulation of the time of Easter and the movable feasts by means of epochs. See Gregorian year (below).
Gregorian chant (Mus.), plain song, or canto fermo, a kind of unisonous music, according to the eight celebrated church modes, as arranged and prescribed by Pope Gregory I. (called ``the Great'') in the 6th century.
Gregorian modes, the musical scales ordained by Pope Gregory the Great, and named after the ancient Greek scales, as Dorian, Lydian, etc.
Gregorian telescope (Opt.), a form of reflecting telescope, named from Prof. James Gregory, of Edinburgh, who perfected it in 1663. A small concave mirror in the axis of this telescope, having its focus coincident with that of the large reflector, transmits the light received from the latter back through a hole in its center to the eyepiece placed behind it.
Gregorian year, the year as now reckoned according to the Gregorian calendar. Thus, every year, of the current reckoning, which is divisible by 4, except those divisible by 100 and not by 400, has 366 days; all other years have 365 days. See Bissextile, and Note under Style, n., 7.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
literally "pertaining to Gregory," from Late Latin Gregorianus, from Gregorius (see Gregory). From c.1600 in reference to church music, from Gregory I (pope from 590-600), who traditionally codified it; 1640s in reference to new calendar (introduced 1582) from Pope Gregory XIII.
Wikipedia
Gregorian might refer to:
- The thought or ideology of Pope Gregory I or Pope Gregory VII (also called Gregorianism)
- Things named for Pope Gregory I:
- Gregorian chant
- Gregorian mass
- Brotherhood of Saint Gregory
- Gregorian calendar
- The Gregorian reform ( Pope Gregory VII)
- Things named for Pope Gregory XIII:
- Gregorian calendar
- Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome
- The Armenian Apostolic Church, sometimes called the Gregorian Church after Saint Gregory the Illuminator
- The Gregorian telescope, named after James Gregory
- Gregorian Bivolaru, founder of the Movement for Spiritual Integration into the Absolute (MISA)
- Gregorian (band), German band that performs Gregorian chant-inspired versions of modern pop and rock songs
- Gregorian Satellite Dish Antennas
Usage examples of "gregorian".
Madame Campaspe, who taught both Gregorian and me, had many ways of earning money.
Mahommedans, 33,663 Jews, 28,569 Catholics, 13,809 Gregorian Armenians, 4524 Protestants and 419 whose religion is not stated.
On the 30th of November 1895 there was a massacre of Armenians, in which several Gregorian priests and Protestant pastors lost their lives.
According to the Gregorian rule of intercalation, therefore, every year of which the number is divisible by four without a remainder is a leap year, excepting the centurial years, which are only leap years when divisible by four after omitting the two ciphers.
Its adoption upon our present Gregorian calendar would only require the suppression of the usual bissextile once in every 128 years, and there would be no necessity for any further correction, as the error is so insignificant that it would not amount to a day in 100,000 years.
Hence the following table of dominical letters for four hundred years will serve to show the dominical letter of any year in the Gregorian calendar for ever.
Julian year was corrected in the Gregorian calendar by the suppression of three intercalations in 400 years.
Julian calendar, and a common year in the Gregorian, the difference of the styles during the 18th century was eleven days.
M, we have already stated that in the Gregorian calendar the epacts are increased by unity at the end of every period of 300 years seven times successively, and then the increase takes place once at the end of 400 years.
In the Protestant states of Germany the Julian calendar was adhered to till the year 1700, when it was decreed by the diet of Regensburg that the new style and the Gregorian correction of the intercalation should be adopted.
In those years in which the line of epacts is changed in the Gregorian calendar, the golden numbers are removed to different days, and of course a new table is required whenever the solar or lunar equation occurs.
The golden numbers have been placed so that Easter may fall on the same day as in the Gregorian calendar.
July 622, Old Style, or 19 July 622, according to the New or Gregorian Style.
The heated conversation between Ellis and Gregorian suddenly seemed to fade out.
The Plain Song of the Roman Church, and of the English Church as well, has been called Gregorian, from St.