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B.C.E.
Before the Common Era. Simply another term meaning B.C. The terminology contributes absolutely nothing new to calendrics, even preserving the outmoded convention of ignoring zero as a counting number. |
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Bissextile
Literally, two sixes. Used in reference to years, it is an older term for leap year. In the Roman calendar, the intercalary day was inserted after the sixth day before the calends of March, and was counted as a second such sixth day. |
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B.P.
Before Present. A term used in archaeology and paleontology to indicate dates prior to the sliding epoch of the current date. The relative chronological motion is not generally a significant problem, since the term is used in the context of time spans on the order of tens of thousands of years and more, so the error is insignificant. Dates B.P. are taken as approximate, not exact. |
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BVM
Standard abbreviation for the Blessed Virgin Mary, commonly used in reference works of an ecclesiastical nature. |
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Calendar
A system of counting days within a year. |
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Calendric
The adjective used in SCDTL to mean of, or pertaining to, a calendar. All such adjectives are generally listed as rare in authoritative dictionaries. Calendric is the most compact and modern in appearance, given options such as "calendarial" or the superfluous "calendrical". |
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Calends
Also kalends. The first day of the month on the Roman calendar. The word calendar is derived from this term. Other named points in the Roman calendar were the nones and the ides. |
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C.E.
Common Era. Simply another term meaning A.D. The terminology contributes nothing new as a definition and is essentially an attempt by the politically correct to highjack the Western calendar by substituting another term and pretend that the Gregorian calendar is not an ecclesiastical calendar. |
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Celestial sphere
An imaginary sphere, typically centered on Earth, of an arbitrarily large radius, on the surface of which the positions of stars may be considered to be fixed. |
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Chiliad
A group of 1,000 things. In the context of calendrics, a period of 1,000 years. |
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Civil
Refers to calendric matters which concern, or originate with, civil authority and not church authority. Distinguished from ecclesiastical. |
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Compline
A watch in the medieval monastery system beginning at sunset. |
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