Calender machine A machine, used for the purpose of giving cloth, paper etc., a smooth, even, and glossy or glazed surface, by cold or hot pressure, or forwatering them and giving them a wavy appearance; it consists of two or morecylindersrevolving nearly in contact, with the necessaryapparatus for moving and regulating.
He brought out the placard, which was quite a work of art. It was nearly two feet long, printed oncalendered paper, with a selection of colors so bright that they shone even in the moonlight.
1594,Rob[ert] Abbot,A Mirrour of Popish Subtilties:[…], London:[…]Thomas Creede, for Thomas Woodcocke,[…], page104:
[…]and maruell it is, that for this cauſe he was not ſainted in the RomanCalender.
1602, Simon Patrike, transl.,The Estate of the Church, with the Discourse of Times, from the Apostles vntill This Present:[…], London:[…]Thomas Creede, page648:
To theſe the D. ofWittenberge and the Senate of Ulme ioyned their Embaſſadors, who the 4. day of Iune, which according to theGregorianCalender was the 14. doo ſo arbitrate the matter, that al faults remitted, they after that throghout the whole Citie, ſhould follow the newCalender, which ſhould be kept in policies, and both the Churches of Religion.
1653,Jeremy Shakerley,Tabulæ Britannicæ: The British Tables:[…], London:[…]R[obert] andW[illiam] Leybourn, for Robert Boydell,[…], page21:
The other two we ſearch not by Calculation, but Tables, and this two wayes,viz that we may ſatisfie both theCalenders, as well Julian as Gregorian, which as they do not altogether partake of one forme of year; ſo do they neceſſarily varie in their Indiecs of week dayes, and feaſts. The Tables ſhew how in both theCalenders the Dominicall letters anſwer to the Cycle of the Sun, and the Epacts to the golden number in the oldCalender perpetually, but in the new one to the year 1700excluſive, and in the newCalender to the year 1900excluſive. Nor will it be difficult, by the help of the Table of anticipation to extend theſe Tables further, if the way how theCalender was corrected be fully known.
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