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Definition of Lunisolar calendar
1. Noun. A calendar based on both lunar and solar cycles.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lunisolar Calendar
Literary usage of Lunisolar calendar
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Maya Year by Cyrus Thomas (1894)
"... and kinfolk of the Mayas, were said by Houzeau to have had a lunisolar calendar
more exact than the Julian calendar, though this is doubted by many. ..."
2. American Anthropologist by American Anthropological Association, American Ethnological Society (1892)
"... even the ancient Aztecs of our own continent had, according to Houzeau, a
lunisolar calendar more exact than the Julian calendar.1 The shorter of these ..."
3. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1843)
"... among the Greeks and all who have derived knowledge from them, has always been
the foundation of the lunisolar calendar. It is now well understood that ..."
4. The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and edited by [Anonymus AC02893924] (1879)
"... to regulate a lunisolar calendar. We should be disposed to infer that the "
star of stars " was the Pleiades, if evidence can be found for the use of ..."
5. The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain), George Long (1843)
"tion of the lunisolar calendar. It is now w\-ll \.- that the Metonic moon, and
not that of the rri . referee in the settlement of religious fe»lu. ..."
6. The Judgment of Paris and Some Other Legends Astronomically Considered by Emmeline Mary Plunket (1908)
"... of Agade—followed a scientifically arranged lunisolar calendar; that they
intercalated a month either in the middle or at the end of their years, ..."
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