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kalends

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] ||

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n. (alternative form of calends English)

Usage examples of "kalends".

Kalends of January will be a warranty that all through the year their feasting will be in like measure abundant.

Greek Kalends, as they said that if he had a pension he would write no more.

Kalends of November, he consulted the chief pilot again and put the fleet snugly into harbor within the curling palm of the Cydonian peninsula, where it could not be seen from Lesbos.

Kalends of September, the day upon which Marcus Livius Drusus introduced in this House his proposed bill to give the Italians our precious citizenship, a frightful earthquake utterly destroyed the town of Mutina in Italian Gaul.

Then will follow the elections for quaestors, curule aediles, tribunes of the soldiers and other minor positions in the Assembly of the People ten days before the Kalends of Sextilis.

How dared he have the audacity to say the proscriptions would end on the Kalends of last month-the names are still going up on the rostra every time one of his minions or his relatives covets another luscious slice of Campania or the seashore!

Kalends Caesar outlined the intended campaign of Publius Vatinius and Marcus Antonius against King Burebistas of the Dacians, necessary because, said Caesar, he was going to plant colonies of Roman Head Count all around the margins of the Euxine Sea.

And finally the plebeian elections in the Plebeian Assembly will be held on a date between two and six days before the Kalends.

A brisk trade in tax exemptions and privileges dated from the Kalends of June, and all those permanently banned from the citizenship by Caesar after he discovered that Faberius was selling the citizenship now could buy it after all.

Kalends of December, Sulla announced the names of the magistrates for the coming year.

Forty ships, half of them decked quinqueremes or triremes, delivered on the Kalends of November.

People talked about getting him a pension, but the project has been relegated to the Greek Kalends, as they said that if he had a pension he would write no more.

Suddenly I remembered that it was the twenty-seventh day of the month of Athyr, the fifth day before our kalends of December.

The fifth day before the kalends of December, the first day of the month of Athyr: with each passing moment that body was sinking deeper, that death was more imbedded.

The Kalends wove in their altering, evolving script that the Fog-Things would pass away.