Assertion: calendar | /r/Synonym | the julian calendar
Facets:
value: commonly
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: And whereas the Calendar now in Use throughout all his Majesty’s British Dominions, commonly called The Julian Calendar, hath been discovered to be erroneous, by means whereof the Vernal or Spring Equinox, which at the Time of the General Council of Nice [i.e. Nicaea] in the Year of our Lord 325, happened on or about the 21st Day of March, now happens on the 9th or 10th Day of the same Month; and the said Error is still increasing, and if not remedied, would, in Process of Time, occasion the several Equinoxes and Solstices to fall at very different Times in the Civil Year from what they formerly did, which might tend to mislead Persons ignorant of the said Alteration: ’