Lexicographical Neighbors of Epacts
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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