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  • adjective Of, relating to, or used in a calendar.

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  • adjective Of, pertaining to, or used by a calendar system.

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  • adjective relating to or characteristic of or used in a calendar or time measurement

Etymologies

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calendar +‎ -ical

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Examples

  • The great attraction of the dead-diary-as-blog is what I could dub calendrical integrity.

    Hooting Yard 2008

  • The great attraction of the dead-diary-as-blog is what I could dub calendrical integrity.

    Hooting Yard 2008

  • Of course, the easy way out would be to get all self-referential and talk about our sesquicentennial column or, perhaps more accurately, sesquivolumenical, in a literary sense... or even sesquihebdomadal, in the strict calendrical sense... but then I don't speak Latin, so what do I know?

    Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points [150] -- A Fortean Week Chris Weigant 2011

  • But the most satisfying visuals for me were the mashups which combined images from disparate strains of pop culture, unified by little more than a coincidental collision, the calendrical quirk of two otherwise unrelated events sharing the same significant date.

    Eric Williams: Historical Mashups: Visuals From a Year of "Triviazoids" Eric Williams 2012

  • There are at least star-spotting opportunities galore Robert De Niro, Jon Bon Jovi, Halle Berry, you name it, plus the feeling of being united under one calendrical system.

    This week's new films 2011

  • Of course, the easy way out would be to get all self-referential and talk about our sesquicentennial column or, perhaps more accurately, sesquivolumenical, in a literary sense... or even sesquihebdomadal, in the strict calendrical sense... but then I don't speak Latin, so what do I know?

    Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points [150] -- A Fortean Week Chris Weigant 2011

  • I've often faced a range of illnesses, a stream of assaults, finding new flaws in my prematurely aged body (I remember feeling old in high school and not thinking that particularly troubling) with calendrical regularity.

    Haroon Moghul: It Hurts to Be Muslim, Too Haroon Moghul 2010

  • But the most satisfying visuals for me were the mashups which combined images from disparate strains of pop culture, unified by little more than a coincidental collision, the calendrical quirk of two otherwise unrelated events sharing the same significant date.

    Eric Williams: Historical Mashups: Visuals From a Year of "Triviazoids" Eric Williams 2012

  • I've often faced a range of illnesses, a stream of assaults, finding new flaws in my prematurely aged body (I remember feeling old in high school and not thinking that particularly troubling) with calendrical regularity.

    Haroon Moghul: It Hurts to Be Muslim, Too Haroon Moghul 2010

  • But the most satisfying visuals for me were the mashups which combined images from disparate strains of pop culture, unified by little more than a coincidental collision, the calendrical quirk of two otherwise unrelated events sharing the same significant date.

    Eric Williams: Historical Mashups: Visuals From a Year of "Triviazoids" Eric Williams 2012

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  • "...The occasion might be a seasonal change, a calendrical event, the initiation of young people..."

    —Barbara Ehrenreich, Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2006), 17

    March 12, 2009