Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In Roman history, a register of days. The fasti sacri or kalendares were calendars of the year, giving the days for festivals, courts, etc., corresponding to the modern almanac. The fasti annales, or historici, contained the names of the consuls and other magistrates, and an enumeration of the most remarkable historical events noted down opposite the days on which they occurred.
- Hence — 2. Annals, chronicles, or historical records in general.
Wiktionary
- n. The calendar in Ancient Rome, which gave the days for festivals, courts, etc., corresponding to a modern almanac.
- n. Records or registers of important events.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The Roman calendar, which gave the days for festivals, courts, etc., corresponding to a modern almanac.
- n. Records or registers of important events.
Etymologies
- Latin (Wiktionary)
Examples
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“There are seasons in the life of men which may be called 'fasti' and”
“Kenders were fond of new experiences-and this was certainly one of the most exciting-but Tas did wish the ground wasn't rushing up to meet them quite so fasti”
“Besides other fasti, the Romans had their fasti urbis, fasti rustici, which were calendars of the particular usages, and ceremonies of the city and the country.”
“The fasti of the magistrates were the days in which they were permitted to plead; and those on which they did not plead were called nefasti, because then they could not plead for justice.”
“The Latin word “fasti” signifies festivals, and it is in this sense that Ovid treats of it in his poem entitled”
“Tiberius is only founded on the pretended apocryphal fasti of”
“The Senate must re-enact its decree of hostis, forbid Sextus fire and water within a thousand miles of Rome, strip him of his so-called provinces, and remove his name from the fasti—he cannot be consul, ever.”
“My country is bankrupt, I have just put down one revolution, and against my name in the fasti will go the odium of having sold off State property.”
“Other, lesser men saw their names entered on the fasti; nonentities, mediocrities, fools.”
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