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As the work of the almanac was then carried on in Cambridge, Mass., he was enabled to enter the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard University, where he graduated in 1858 and where he pursued graduate studies for three years longer.

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  1. noun An annual publication including calendars with weather forecasts, astronomical information, tide tables, and other related tabular information.
  2. noun A usually annual reference book composed of various lists, tables, and often brief articles relating to a particular field or many general fields.

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  • To convey an idea of the brilliant campaign of 1805 from an abstract of the reports and letters I received at Hamburg I should, like the almanac- makers, be obliged to note down a victory for every day. —  The Memoirs of Napoleon, V9, 1807
  • Lincoln quietly looked up an almanac, and found that at the time this witness declared the moon to have been shining with full light there was no moon at all. —  The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln
  • [Pg 244] To be up to date is a paltry ambition except in an almanac, and Shaw has sometimes talked this almanac philosophy. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of George Bernard Shaw, by Gilbert K. Chesterton.
  • He took out and consulted a pocket almanac, and added, "As today is Wednesday, the 2nd of October, I shall be due in London in this very room of the Reform Club, on Saturday, the 21st of December, at a quarter before nine p.m.; or else the twenty thousand pounds, now deposited in my name at Baring's, will belong to you, in fact and in right, gentlemen. —  Around the World in 80 Days
  • Banneker continued the work required to complete his almanac, and finished the first one to cover the year 1792, when he was sixty-one years old. —  The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918
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  1. Middle English almenak, from Medieval Latin almanach, perhaps from Late Greek almenikhiaka, ephemeris, perhaps of Coptic origin.

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  1. Early modern English almanack, almanach, from Middle English almenak = French almanach = Spanish almanac, almanaque = Portuguese almanach, almanac = Italian almanacco = Dutch almanak = German almanach (later Polish almanach) = Swedish almanach = Danish almanak; from Middle Latin almanac, almanach (Roger Bacon, adjective d. 1267); apparently from Arabic al, the, + “manākh, almanaque, calendario,” so given in the Arabic-Castilian “Vocabulista” of Pedro de Alcalá (adjective d. 1505), who also gives “manah, relox del sol,” i. e., sun-dial. The word, used, it appears, by Arabic astronomers in Spain as early as the 12th or 13th century, is not found elsewhere as Arabic, and must be of foreign, presumptively of Greek, origin; without proof from records, it has been identified with L. manachus or manacus, also cited as Greek *μήναχος, *μάναχος, a false reading in Vitruvius for L. menæus, a circle on a sun-dial showing the months or signs of the zodiac, from Greek μηναῖος, monthly, from μῆν = Latin mensis, month: see month.
 

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