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Metonic or lunar cycle: a cycle of 19 years, established by the Greek astronomer Meton, and used for determining the date of Easter.

Metonic or lunar cycle: a cycle of 19 years, established by the Greek astronomer Meton, and used for determining the date of Easter.

solar cycle: a period of 28 years, at the end of which the days of the week (according to the Julian Calendar) recur on the same days of the month.

solar cycle: a period of 28 years, at the end of which the days of the week (according to the Julian Calendar) recur on the same days of the month.

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1387 TREVISA Higden (Rolls) VII. 271 The dissonaunce of {th}e cicles of Dionise the lesse ageyne the trawthe of gospelles. 1398 {emem} Barth. De P.R. IX. iv. (1495) 349 The Cycle and course of the mone conteyneth twelue comyn yeres and seuen yeres Embolismalis. c1425 WYNTOUN Cron. IX. xxiii. 5 {Edh}e cikil of our Salvatioune {Edh}at is {th}e Annuntiatiowne. 1646 SIR T. BROWNE Pseud. Ep. IV. xii. 211 Of months, of years, Olympiades, Lustres, Indictions, Cycles, Jubilies, &c. 1656 BLOUNT Glossogr. s.v., This revolution is called the Cycle of the Sun, taking name from Sunday, the letter whereof (called therefore Dominical) it appoints for every yeer. 1788 PRIESTLEY Lect. Hist. III. xiv. 111 The greatest difficulty in chronology has been to accommodate the two methods of computing time by the course of the moon and that of the sun to each other..This gave birth to many cycles in use among the ancients. 1844 LINGARD Anglo-Sax. Ch. (1858) I. i. 47 The Roman church, about the middle of the sixth century, adopted a new cycle, which had been lately composed by Dionysius Exiguus...But the British churches..continued to use the ancient cycle.

1387 TREVISA Higden (Rolls) VII. 271 The dissonaunce of {th}e cicles of Dionise the lesse ageyne the trawthe of gospelles. 1398 {emem} Barth. De P.R. IX. iv. (1495) 349 The Cycle and course of the mone conteyneth twelue comyn yeres and seuen yeres Embolismalis. c1425 WYNTOUN Cron. IX. xxiii. 5 {Edh}e cikil of our Salvatioune {Edh}at is {th}e Annuntiatiowne. 1646 SIR T. BROWNE Pseud. Ep. IV. xii. 211 Of months, of years, Olympiades, Lustres, Indictions, Cycles, Jubilies, &c. 1656 BLOUNT Glossogr. s.v., This revolution is called the Cycle of the Sun, taking name from Sunday, the letter whereof (called therefore Dominical) it appoints for every yeer. 1788 PRIESTLEY Lect. Hist. III. xiv. 111 The greatest difficulty in chronology has been to accommodate the two methods of computing time by the course of the moon and that of the sun to each other..This gave birth to many cycles in use among the ancients. 1844 LINGARD Anglo-Sax. Ch. (1858) I. i. 47 The Roman church, about the middle of the sixth century, adopted a new cycle, which had been lately composed by Dionysius Exiguus...But the British churches..continued to use the ancient cycle.