Definition of Epacts

1. epact [n] - See also: epact

Lexicographical Neighbors of Epacts

eozoa
eozoic
eozoon
eozoonal
eozoons
ep toxicity
epacrid
epacrids
epacris
epacris family
epacrises
epact
epactal
epactal bones
epactal ossicles
epacts (current term)
epagoge
epagoges
epagogic
epagomenal
epalate
epalrestat
epamniotic
epamniotic cavity
epanadiplosis
epanalepsis
epanaphora
epanastrophe
epanodos
epanody

Literary usage of Epacts

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Since, then, a Solar Equation occurs in 1700, the Cycle of epacts just given holds only for the period 1582-1699, after which a new cycle must be formed. ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The numbers eleven and twenty-two arc therefore the epacts of those years ... In like manner the epacts of all the following years of the cycle are obtained ..."

3. Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1838)
"Menstrual epacts are the excesses of the civil or calendar month above the lunar month. Suppose, for example, it were new moon on the first day of January; ..."

4. The Ecclesiastical Calendar: Its Theory and Contruction by Samuel Butcher (1877)
"So that, for the year 1700, the epacts in the fundamental series (D) must be lowered by a unit; and the series becomes:— GN HI. ..."

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