Word Meanings - ROMANCALENDAR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The calendar of the ancient Romans, from which our modern calendars are derived. It is said to have consisted originally of ten months, Martius, Aprilis, Maius, Junius, Quintilis, Sextilis, September, October, November, and December, having a total of 304 days. Numa added two months, Januarius at the beginning of the year, and Februarius at the end, making in all 355 days. He also ordered an intercalary month, Mercedinus, to be inserted every second year. Later the order of the months was changed so that January should come before February. Through abuse of power by the pontiffs to whose care it was committed, this calendar fell into confusion. It was replaced by the Julian calendar. In designating the days of the month, the Romans reckoned backward from three fixed points, the calends, the nones, and the ides. The calends were always the first day of the month. The ides fell on the 15th in March, May, July (Quintilis), and October, and on the 13th in other months. The nones came on the eighth day (the ninth, counting the ides) before the ides. Thus, Jan. 13 was called the ides of January, Jan. 12, the day before the ides, and Jan. 11, the third day before the ides (since the ides count as one), while Jan. 14 was the 19th day before the calends of February.

• Always
  At all times; ever; perpetually; throughout all time; continually; as, God is always the same.
• Three-flowered
  Bearing three flowers together, or only three flowers.
• Counterdrew
  of Counterdraw
• Derivational
  Relating to derivation.
• Nonesuch
  A person or thing of a sort that there is no other such; something extraordinary; a thing that has not its equal. It is given as a name to various objects, as to a choice variety of apple, a species of medic (Medicago lupulina), a variety of potte
• Calendar
  An orderly arrangement of the division of time, adapted to the purposes of civil life, as years, months, weeks, and days; also, a register of the year with its divisions; an almanac.
• Three-sided
  Having three sides, especially three plane sides; as, a three-sided stem, leaf, petiole, peduncle, scape, or pericarp.
• Countergage
  An adjustable gage, with double points for transferring measurements from one timber to another, as the breadth of a mortise to the place where the tenon is to be made.
• Everych
  each one; every one; each of two. See Every.
• Otherguess
  Of another kind or sort; in another way.
• Calligrapher
  One skilled in calligraphy; a good penman.
• Whiled
  of While
• Countermine
  An underground gallery excavated to intercept and destroy the mining of an enemy.
• Firstly
  In the first place; before anything else; -- sometimes improperly used for first.
• Replace
  To place again; to restore to a former place, position, condition, or the like.
• Callose
  Furnished with protuberant or hardened spots.
• COUNTERCOUCHANT
  Lying down, with their heads in opposite directions; -- said of animals borne in a coat of arms.
• Counterplot
  To oppose, as another plot, by plotting; to attempt to frustrate, as a stratagem, by stratagem.
• Having
  of Have
• Changeful
  Full of change; mutable; inconstant; fickle; uncertain.

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