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单词 fasts
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fastsn.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin fāstī; English -s.
Etymology: < classical Latin fāstī, plural (see fasti n.) + English -s, plural ending. Compare earlier fasti n. Compare French fastes (a1359 in Middle French).
Obsolete.
With plural agreement. In ancient Rome: A calendar or calendars, indicating the days on which business may be lawfully transacted, and the festivals, games, historical anniversaries, etc., celebrated on each day of the year; = fasti n. 1. Also: a chronological record of events; annals; = fasti n. 2.In quot. 1681 as a translation of the Latin title Fasti, a long poem by Ovid ( b.c.43– a.d.17) describing the Roman festivals occurring during the calendar year.
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society > communication > record > written record > historical record or chronicle > [noun]
historyeOE
chronicle1303
storya1382
chroniquec1386
memoryc1425
historialc1487
annals1569
res gestae1587
fasts1606
fasti1617
archive1638
time book1865
1606 R. Knolles tr. J. Bodin Six Bks. Common-weale iv. ii. 463 We will vse the Roman Fasts [L. Fastis, Fr. Fastes] or Calenders, which can not lie.
1681 ‘Mercurius Hibernicus’ Pacquet of Popish Delusions x. 12 We may not only affirm, That Virgil's Aeniedes, but Homer's Iliads, Ovid's Fasts, and Lucians Dialogues also may be made Canonical.
1705 Philos. Trans. 1704–05 (Royal Soc.) 24 2019 Two Ages after the same Fasts were compos'd by King Atlas.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021).
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