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Definition of Computists
1. computist [n] - See also: computist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Computists
Literary usage of Computists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Ecclesiastical Calendar: Its Theory and Contruction by Samuel Butcher (1877)
"The ancient computists strictly adhered to the Rule of making the first ...
The computists were unwilling to disturb the alternation at this point of ..."
2. Medii ævi Kalendarium: Or Dates, Charters and Customs of the Middle Ages by Robert Thomas Hampson (1841)
"The ancient computists supplied the defect of the regulars by the knowledge ...
Other computists who began the lunar year at September with the Egyptians, ..."
3. A Rational Illustration of the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of by Charles Wheatly (1848)
"Therefore the computists have once in a little more than that time changed the
old course of the ..."
4. A rational illustration of the Book of common prayer by Charles Wheatly (1845)
"Therefore the computists have once in a little more than that time changed the
old course of the ..."
5. A rational illustration of the Book of common prayer by Charles Wheatly (1848)
"Therefore the computists have once in a little more than that time changed the
old course of the ..."
6. The Journal of Science (1864)
"As regards these latter particulars, the results arrived at by various observers
and computists, especially the more modern ones (Lalande, ..."