Definition of Greek calends. Meaning of Greek calends. Synonyms of Greek calends

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Definition of Greek calends

Greek calends
Greek calends Greek calends or kalends kalends A time that will never come, as the Greeks had no calends.
Greek calends
Greek Greek, a. [AS. grec, L. Graecus, Gr. ?: cf. F. grec. Cf. Grecian.] Of or pertaining to Greece or the Greeks; Grecian. Greek calends. See under Calends. Greek Church (Eccl. Hist.), the Eastern Church; that part of Christendom which separated from the Roman or Western Church in the ninth century. It comprises the great bulk of the Christian population of Russia (of which this is the established church), Greece, Moldavia, and Wallachia. The Greek Church is governed by patriarchs and is called also the Byzantine Church. Greek cross. See Illust. (10) Of Cross. Greek Empire. See Byzantine Empire. Greek fire, a combustible composition which burns under water, the constituents of which are supposed to be asphalt, with niter and sulphur. --Ure. Greek rose, the flower campion.

Meaning of Greek calends from wikipedia

- the Gr**** calends") was a colloquial expression for postponing something forever. This phrase survived for many centuries in Gr**** (Ancient Gr****: εἰς...
- ad kalendas graecas ("to the Gr**** Kalends") signified indefinite postponement, since the Gr**** calendar had no Calends period; also **** mula peperit...
- "on horses' Easter". The Latin expression ad kalendas graecas "to the Gr**** calends" The German "Wenn Schweine fliegen können!" is identical with the English...
- cetera. Some of the phrases are themselves translations of Gr**** phrases, as ancient Gr**** rhetoric and literature started centuries before the beginning...
- survived only in a few fossilized forms, such as Kalendae, "the calends". After Gr**** words were taken into Latin, the kappa was transliterated as a C...
- someone more like the castrated boy. Shortly before Nero's death, during the Calends festival, Sporus presented Nero with a ring bearing a gemstone depicting...
- equinox, which was fixed by the fathers of the [first] Nicene Council at XII calends April [21 March]". This definition can be traced at least back to chapters...
- or Kalanda or Kalanta Christougenon, the word deriving from the Roman calends). There are separate carols for each of the three great feasts, referring...
- Roman Calendar in the 11th century and celebrated on the sixth day to the Calends of March (24 February usually, but 25 February in leap years). In the revision...
- celebrated hilaria as a feria stativa, on March 25, the seventh day before the Calends of April, in honor of Cybele, the mother of the gods; and it is probably...