单词 | solar regular |
释义 | > as lemmassolar regular 7. A number associated with a particular month or year that is added to the value of one calendrical variable to find that of another; (a) (more fully solar regular or ferial regular) a number added to the concurrent of a year to ascertain on which day of the week the month concerned begins; (b) (more fully lunar regular) a number added to the epact of a month to yield the age of the moon on the first day of that month. (c) (more fully Paschal regular) a number added to the concurrent of a year to ascertain the day of the week in that year of the Paschal term (see paschal n. and adj. Compounds). ΘΚΠ the world > time > reckoning of time > [noun] > numbers used in calculations regular1833 1833 H. Nicolas Chronol. Hist. 25 There are two kinds of Regulars, Solar and Lunar. 1840 Penny Cycl. XVII. 451/1 The annual regular, or the regular cited in charters (as in our previous quotation, where it is called the paschal regular), is..a third regular belonging to the whole year. 1895 Eng. Hist. Rev. 10 524 The lunar regular of the Kalends of April. 1897 F. Madan Summary Catal. Western Manuscripts Bodleian Libr. IV. p. xii They began in 1036 and 1549. In both of these years the ‘paschal regular’ was 1. 1900 F. A. Arbuthnot Myst. Chronol. 7 At the end of a revolution of 532 years, the two cycles of the moon, the regulars,..the epacts with the new moons, recommence as they were 532 years before. 1939 C. W. Jones Bedae Pseudepigraphica 75 For an explanation of the lunar and ferial regulars..see DTR Chs. XX, XXI, where they are given. 1973 Bodl. Libr. Rec. 9 11 Lines 1–2 are a list of solar regulars, sometimes called ferial regulars. 1995 Isis 86 569 A chart of the paschal cycle and the paschal regulars is included with the Compotus of Constabularius. 1998 Isis 89 57 Jones's suggestion that Bede invented the lunar regulars himself seems unlikely. 2005 L. Holford-Strevens Hist. Time vii. 127 Dionysius' lunar regulars presuppose a year beginning in September as at Byzantium. < as lemmas |
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