单词 | computistic |
释义 | computisticadj. Chiefly historical. Of or relating to computation; esp. of or relating to calendrical or astronomical calculation, or the use of a computus (cf. computus n.). ΘΚΠ the world > time > reckoning of time > calendar > [adjective] calendary1633 calendarian1839 computistic1847 calendrical1863 calendric1878 computistical1895 1847 J. F. W. Herschel Brief Notice Life F. W. Bessel 16 The highest and most refined application of mathematical and computistic power. 1898 Eng. Hist. Rev. 13 75 In his computistic work..Beda commences the year, after the Roman fashion,..on 1 Jan. 1933 R. Tuve Seasons & Months iv. 151 A similar manuscript in Munich (..also a computistic and astronomical collection), written in 818,..parallels the Horae in many ways. 1996 T. Dunlap tr. G. Dohrn-van Rossum Hist. of Hour iii. 41 The computistic writings of the Anglo-Saxon monk Bede..became highly authoritative and were very widely circulated. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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