Hebdomad: alternatives and connections

A festival celebrated with merriment and revelry in Roman Gatholic countries during the week before Lent, esp. at Rome and Naples, dur…

Of or pertaining to the lowest period of the Devonian age. (See the Diagram, under Geology.) The Corniferous period has been so called…

A wooden rattle sometimes used as a substitute for a bell, in the Roman Catholic church, during the latter part of Holy Week, or the l…

One of the products arising from the multiplication of two or more quantities by the same number or quantity. Thus, seven times 2, or…

A time of fasting, whether a day, week, or longer time; a period of abstinence from food or certain kinds of food; as, an annual fast.

The second month in the year, said to have been introduced into the Roman calendar by Numa. In common years this month contains twenty…

In periods of seven days; weekly.

An atom which has a valence of seven, and which can be theoretically combined with, substituted for, or replaced by, seven monad atoms…

A plane figure consisting of seven sides and having seven angles.

A government by seven persons; also, a country under seven rulers.

A family of tones whose regular members are called diatonic tones, and named key tone (or tonic) or one (or eight), mediant or three,…

Far in the night, day, week, or other particular period; as, to lie abed late; to sit up late at night.

Bissextile; a year containing 366 days; every fourth year which leaps over a day more than a common year, giving to February twenty-ni…

Of or pertaining to obits, or days when obits are celebrated; as, obitual days.

Passion week. See Passion week, below.

An indulgence of forty days, corresponding to the forty days of ancient canonical penance.

To change, as numbers, from one denomination into another without altering their value, or from one denomination into others of the sa…

To continue in operation; to be kept in action or motion; as, this engine runs night and day; the mill runs six days in the week.