Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating or pertaining to a decad of days; specifically pertaining to the periods of ten days into which each month of the French Revolutionary calendar of 1793 was divided.
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The re-establishment of the ancient calendar had no other object than to bring us into harmony with the rest of Europe on a point so closely connected with daily transactions, which were much embarrassed by the decadary calendar.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various
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The re - establishment of the ancient calendar had no other object than to bring us into harmony with the rest of Europe on a point so closely connected with daily transactions, which were much embarrassed by the decadary calendar.
The Memoirs of Napoleon Bourrienne, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de 1836
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Afterwards they here celebrated the decadary feasts, promulgated laws, pronounced marriages, and even gave a great breakfast to the conscripts of the _year VII_, the first who went under that denomination.
Rouen, It's History and Monuments A Guide to Strangers Th��odore Licquet 1809
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The re-establishment of the ancient calendar had no other object than to bring us into harmony with the rest of Europe on a point so closely connected with daily transactions, which were much embarrassed by the decadary calendar.
Memoirs of Napoleon — Complete Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne 1801
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The re - establishment of the ancient calendar had no other object than to bring us into harmony with the rest of Europe on a point so closely connected with daily transactions, which were much embarrassed by the decadary calendar.
Memoirs of Napoleon — Volume 05 Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne 1801
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Robespierre obtains decrees to admit the existence of a Supreme Being, and of the immortality of the soul; and for the establishment of decadary festivals.
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Robefpierre obtains decrees to admit the exiftence of a Supreme Being, and of the immortality of the foul; and for the efla - blifhment of decadary feftivals.
Historical epochs of the French Revolution, Goudemetz, H 1796
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_decadary fétes_, and for a time rendered common to every sort of worship.
Paris as It Was and as It Is Francis W. Blagdon 1798
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