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ecclesiastical calendar

[ ih-kleezee-astikuhl kaluhnder ]

noun

  1. a calendar based on the lunisolar cycle, used by many Christian churches in determining the dates for the movable feasts.
  2. Also called church calendar. a calendar of the Christian year, indicating the days and seasons for fasts and festivals.


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It was so in the ecclesiastical calendar of later times, but the civil New Year was, and still is, in the Autumn.

These feasts would naturally be referred to the ecclesiastical calendar.

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