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Calendar

Calendar [fr. Calendarium, Lat.; fr. Calend', the first day in the month in Roman reckoning], the order and series of months, together with the festivals and fasts, which make up the year. There are two modes of computing time-by the annual course of the sun, and by the periodical revolutions of the moon. The solar year consists of 365 days, 5 hours, 48', 45', 30'; the lunar year of 354 days, 3 hours, 48', 38', 12'. The Mohammedans adopt the lunar year. The solar year, calculated by the ancient Egyptians, has undergone various corrections and denominations.The chief of the calendars now in use are the three following: (1) The Julian, so called because Julius C'sar introduced into the Roman Empire the solar or Egyptian year, instead of the lunar year. The Russians and Greeks are the only nations that now use the Julian year. The common Julian year consists of 365 days, and the bissextile or leap-year (see that title), which returns every four years, of 366 days. This computation is faul...

Almanack

Almanack [fr. the Arabic particle al, and manach, to count or reckon], a publication in which is recounted the days of the week, month, and year, both common and particular, distinguishing the fasts, feasts, terms, etc., from the common days by proper marks, pointing out also the several changes of the moon, tides, eclipses, etc. It is a part of the law of England, of which the Courts must take notice in the returns of writs, etc., but the almanack to go by is that annexed to the Book of Common Prayer. It is not evidence of the time of sunrise on a particular day, Tutton v. Darke, (1860) 5 H&N 647....

Seneschal

An officer in the houses of princes and dignitaries in the Middle Ages who had the superintendence of feasts and domestic ceremonies a steward Sometimes the seneschal had the dispensing of justice and was given high military commands...

Rudmasday

Either of the feasts of the Holy Cross occuring on May 3 and September 14 annually...

Easter

Easter [fr. Ostern, Ger., supposed to be derived from the name of the Teutonic goddess Ostera (oster, to rise), celebrated by the ancient Saxons early in the spring], a movable feast of the church, held in memory of our Saviour's resurrection.Easter Day, on which all the other movable feasts and holy days of the Church depend, is always the first Sunday after the Full Moon which happens upon, or next after, the twenty-first day of March; and if the Full Moon happens upon a Sunday, Easter Day is the Sunday after, Book of Common Prayer.Easter Monday is made a Bank Holiday by (English) 34 & 35 Vict. c. 17, and 38 & 39 Vict. c. 13....

Omophagic

Eating raw flesh using uncooked meat as food as omophagic feasts rites...

Purim

A Jewish festival called also the Feast of Lots instituted to commemorate the deliverance of the Jews from the machinations of Haman...

Corpus Christi Day

Corpus Christi Day, the 2nd June, a feast instituted in 1264 in honour of the Blessed Sacrament, and on which fairs and markets are prohibited by the still unrepealed 27 Hen. 6, c. 5, but which is omitted from the list of 'hollie daies' prescribed and limited by 5 & 6 Edw. 6, c. 2 By 32 Hen. 8, c. 21 [repealed by (English) Stat. Law Rev. Act, 1873], a full Trinity Term was directed to begin on the Friday next after Corpus Christi Day....

Arvil-supper

Arvil-supper, a feast or entertainment made at a funeral in the north of England; arvil bread is bread delivered to the poor at funeral solenities, and arvil, arval, or arfal the burial or funeral rites, Cowel...

Smell feast

One who is apt to find and frequent good tables a parasite a sponger...

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