calendry

plural calendries

1. uncountableusuallyThe calculation and development of calendars, especially the determination of the timing of astronomical movements.

   Li Chunfeng mastered all sorts of subjects in youth and was an expert at calendry.

   2011, Chen Kaiguo, Zheng Shunchao, Opening the Dragon Gate: The Making of a Modern Taoist Wizard, →ISBN

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   It attained to cities, kingdoms, most metallurgical arts, some astronomy and calendry, and extraordinarily complex rituals.

   1948, Alfred Kroeber, Anthropology, page 423

2. uncountableusuallyA specialized calendar or set of calendars.

   He will not again decorate his room with cheap prints and art calendry.

   1947, The Peabody Reflector - Volume 20, Issue 3, page 92

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   “Peak day” means that day during a calendry when demand is the greatest;

   1977, Minnesota State Register - Volume 2, page 1808

plural calendries

1. A place set aside for calendering.

   And over these is spread a calendry, resembling a tent, made of wax-cloth, or oil-cloth, to defend them from rain and the heat of the sun.

   1783, Abû al-Faḍl b. Mubârak ʻAllâmî, Ayeen Akbery: or, The institutes of the emperor Akber

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   The bustle, the dexterity, the alert force of the iron foundry, the glass furnace, the gunpowder mill, the silk calendry are as skilfully reproduced as the more tranquil toil of the dairywoman, the embroiderer, the confectioner, the setter of types, the compounder of drugs, the chaser of metals.

   1897, John Morley, Diderot and the Encyclopedists, page 194

   Improvements have been effected here in the methods of work and in the arrangement of the sorting room, wash house, calendry, and drying, packing and despatch rooms.

   1928, The Journal of the National Institute of Industrial Psychology