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  • From these three terms the days received their denomination in the following manner: -- Those which were comprised between the Calends and the Nones were called _the days before the Nones_; those between the Nones and the Ides were called _the days before the Ides_; and, lastly, all the days after the Ides to the end of the month were called _the days before the Calends_ of the succeeding month.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

  • Calends, that is, the night before the first day of winter.

    The Book of Hallowe'en Ruth Edna Kelley

  • K. -- Kalendas ( "Calends"); or Care, Carus, Cara ( "Dear One"); or

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

  • Perhaps somebody should warn Gordo to beware the Calends of May?

    Archive 2008-04-01 2008

  • Perhaps somebody should warn Gordo to beware the Calends of May?

    Et Tu Brute? 2008

  • Calends,” of the extravagant dances of the feast of fools, exhibits a part of the abuses which have caused dancing to be discontinued in the ceremonies of the mass, which, the greater their gravity, are the better calculated to impose on the simple.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • The "Penthekte" Council of Constantinople prohibits the remains of Calends, Brumalia, Anthesteria, and other Pagan/Dionysian festivals.

    The Church-State Alliance and the future of humanity 2007

  • Feast of the Calends, of Asses, of Fools, or of Innocents, according to the different places where, and the different days on which, it was held.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Greek Calends, when, on the honour of an officer and gentleman, he would repee the thrifling obligetion.

    The History of Pendennis 2006

  • Magitian prevailed so by his Art, that after the Christmas Holy dayes were past, and the Calends of january entred: in one night, and without the Cittie Wals, the goodliest Garden of flowers and fruites, was sodainely sprung up, as (in opinion of such as beheld it) never was the like seen before.

    The Decameron 2004

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