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...
- Pontus (modern Amasya, Turkey) preached a sermon against the Feast of Calends ("this foolish and harmful delight") that describes the role of the mock...
- 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...
- college during the consulship of Glabrio and Homulus ten days before the Calends of September. Images of Lenus and Shrines The spring sacred to Lenus Mars...
- established that private litanies for the Calends of January be chanted in the churches, and that on the Calends itself M**** of the Cir****cision be celebrated...
- shall decide to inflict. GIVEN IN THESSALONICA ON THE THIRD DAY FROM THE CALENDS OF MARCH, DURING THE FIFTH CONSULATE OF GRATIAN AUGUSTUS AND FIRST OF THEODOSIUS...