单词 | fasts |
释义 | † fastsn. 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. ΘΚΠ 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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