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The act of revolving or turning round on an axis or a center the motion of a body round a fixed point or line rotation as the revolution of a wheel of a top of the earth on its axis etc...
Revolving
Making a revolution or revolutions rotating used also figuratively of time seasons etc depending on the revolution of the earth...
VerbarOblongum
A prolate spheroid a figure described by the revolution of an ellipse about its greater axis Cf Oblatum and see Ellipsoid of revolution under Ellipsoid...
Revolutionary
Of or pertaining to a revolution in government tending to or promoting revolution as revolutionary war revolutionary measures revolutionary agitators...
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...
Bolshevik
a member of the extreme left wing of the Social Democratic Party that seized power in Russia in 1917 after the Russian October Revolution and advocated rule by the proletariat and state ownership of property...
Bonnet rouge
The red cap adopted by the extremists in the French Revolution which became a sign of patriotism at that epoch hence a revolutionist a Red Republican...
Ccedila ira
The refrain of a famous song of the French Revolution...
Carmagnole
A popular or Red Rebublican song and dance of the time of the first French Revolution...
Chouan
One of the royalist insurgents in western France Brittany etc during and after the French revolution...
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