Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In Roman history, a register of days.
- Hence — 2. Annals, chronicles, or historical records in general.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural The Roman calendar, which gave the days for festivals, courts, etc., corresponding to a modern almanac.
- noun plural Records or registers of important events.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
calendar inAncient Rome , which gave the days forfestivals ,courts , etc., corresponding to a modernalmanac . - noun
Records orregisters of importantevents .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Gord, that bird's going to finish Eneever Zig In a moment unless we do something " fasti "Now it was Chert's turn to panic.
Night Arrant Gygax, Gary 1987
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There are seasons in the life of men which may be called 'fasti' and
Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 09: the False Nun Giacomo Casanova 1761
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There are seasons in the life of men which may be called 'fasti' and
The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Giacomo Casanova 1761
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Kenders were fond of new experiences-and this was certainly one of the most exciting-but Tas did wish the ground wasn't rushing up to meet them quite so fasti
Finnegan teoriza la practica de cuerdas Carlos G.Tonda 2010
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Tiberius is only founded on the pretended apocryphal fasti of
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The Senate must re-enact its decree of hostis, forbid Sextus fire and water within a thousand miles of Rome, strip him of his so-called provinces, and remove his name from the fasti—he cannot be consul, ever.
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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Besides other fasti, the Romans had their fasti urbis, fasti rustici, which were calendars of the particular usages, and ceremonies of the city and the country.
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The Senate must re-enact its decree of hostis, forbid Sextus fire and water within a thousand miles of Rome, strip him of his so-called provinces, and remove his name from the fasti—he cannot be consul, ever.
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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The fasti of the magistrates were the days in which they were permitted to plead; and those on which they did not plead were called nefasti, because then they could not plead for justice.
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The Latin word “fasti” signifies festivals, and it is in this sense that Ovid treats of it in his poem entitled
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