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Definition of Almanacs
1. almanac [n] - See also: almanac
Medical Definition of Almanacs
1. Publications, usually annual, containing a calendar for the coming year, the times of such events and phenomena as anniversaries, sunrises, sunsets, phases of the moon, tides, meteorological, and other statistical information and related topics. Almanacs are also annual reference books of useful and interesting facts relating to countries of the world, sports, entertainment, population groups, etc. Works containing a calendar of days, weeks, and months, together with information such as astronomical data, various statistics, etc. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Almanacs
Literary usage of Almanacs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Manuscript almanacs of considerable antiquity are preserved in the British ...
In this work the almanacs for the different months embrace three Metonic ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"The entire repeal in 1834, by the 3rd and 4th Will.IV. c.57, of the heavy stamp
duty, first imposed in 1710, on all almanacs of ..."
3. Catalogue of the American Library of the Late Mr. George Brinley: Of by George Brinley, James Hammond Trumbull (1886)
"Boston, B. Green and John Allen, 1699 5 EXTREMELY RARE almanacs, 1687-99. ° 7331
Clough, 1706. Kalendarium Nov-Anglicanum, or an Almanack for.. 1706 . ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1858)
"In two of these great depots at Troyes, some of the publications were supplied
to customers not by number but by weight ;—almanacs being actually sold by ..."
5. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register by Henry Fritz-Gilbert Waters (1862)
"The author of these almanacs was N. Bowen of Marblehead. Who was he, how many
almanacs did he publish, and during what years ? f Lydia was the eighth child ..."
6. The Lives of the Chief Justices of England: From the Norman Conquest Till by John Campbell Campbell (1874)
"... and almanacs, from entries made by him in a succession of almanacs which he
carefully preserved f; but these are perused with much disappointment. ..."
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