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New Year's Day
Matched in: Term New Year's Day
New Years Day
Matched in: Term New Years Day
Calendar
derange the order of the seasons. Leo X. paid some attention to this, but Gregory XIII. caused a new calendar to be drawn up, which is called (2) the Gregorian; and because the civil year had gained … 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 faulty, inasmuch as it allows 365 days and six entire hours for … Calendar [fr. Calendarium, Lat.; fr. Calend', the first day in the month in Roman reckoning], the order and series of months,
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Year
on 31st March next following. [Rajasthan Public Libraries Act, 2006, s. 2(t)] Means a year commencing on 1st day of April. [Equity Linked Savings Scheme, 2005, s. 2(g)] [fr. gear, Sax.], 365 days, twelve calendar months, fifty-two … Year, means a period commencing on 1st April and ending on 31st March next following. [Rajasthan Public Libraries Act,
Holiday, or Holyday
day of December, if a week day, shall be kept as bank holidays in England and Ireland, and New Year's day, Christmas-day (or, if either be a Sunday, the following day), Good Friday, the first Monday of … day with cessation from labour, as by 5 & 6 Edw. 6, c. 3, all Sundays in the year and also Christmas-day and other days by that Act commanded 'to be kepte holie dayes and none other.'
Metemptosis
The suppression of a day in the calendar to prevent the date of the new moon being set a day too late or the suppression of the bissextile day once in 134 years
New style
Matched in: Term New style
Lammas
a Saxon word, signifying loaf-mass, because on that day our forefathers made an offering of bread composed of new wheat], the gule or 1st of August, and the second of the four cross quarter-days of the year, … new wheat], the gule or 1st of August, and the second of the four cross quarter-days of the year, Encyc. Londin.; Wheat. Com. Pr.
Epact
moons age at the beginning of the calendar year or the number of days by which the last new moon has preceded the beginning of the year … The moons age at the beginning of the calendar year or the number of days by which the last new moon has preceded the beginning of the year … age at the beginning of the calendar year or the number of days by which the last new moon has preceded the beginning of the
Festum stultorum
Festum stultorum, the feast of fools, anciently observed on New Year's Day. … Festum stultorum, the feast of fools, anciently observed on New Year's Day.
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