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- adj. Of or pertaining to a calendar
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. Of or pertaining to a calendar.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to a calendar.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adj. relating to or characteristic of or used in a calendar or time measurement
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The date coincides with the 70th anniversary of the Jewish calendric date of Sivan 28 on which the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M.
They had already undertaken sophisticated astronomical observations and had developed advanced mathematical and calendric systems, even to the point of being able to predict the arrival of some comets.
Minaya argued that the 16th day, cabán, gave rise to the word cabañuelas, presumably because it had some additional significance, perhaps in terms of some other calendric calculation, or time-marker.
According to Roberto Salido Beltrán, this calendric fix was to suppress six days of the ancient calendar, between day 1-Casa (One House) and 11-Mono (11 monkey).
The congress of astronomers from all over the zone held to agree the calendric correction was a landmark event in the history of science worldwide.
Still on a calendric note, how about the first day of this month, variously known as April 1, April Fool's Day or All Fool's Day?
Insofar as virtually every one of the nengÃ´ used in Japanese history as names for annual time has derived from Confucian texts, there can be little question that Japanese understandings of calendric time have been nuanced in accordance with Confucian philosophy.
Most of the urns have calendric names inscribed on them and show seated male and female deities, complete with clothing and jewelry.
Just as this writing system predates both Aztec and Maya writing systems, so Zapotec calendric inscriptions also predate Maya calendar glyphs, though the two systems share the same conventions for how numbers are portrayed.
Because the solar-lunar calendric system (the lunar year) uses the movement of the moon as the basis for its calculations, if we say it in English, we should use Lunar (Moon) Calendar, so new year is actually Lunar New Year.