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hebdomad

NOUN
  1. any period of seven consecutive days
    it rained for a week

How To Use hebdomad In A Sentence

  • Still, the hebdomadal legwork must go on. The Times Literary Supplement
  • But on their new album, Seven Steps out Feb. 21, its members circle around the mysterious - and some might even say spiritual - power of the hebdomad. News
  • Even the hebdomadal excursions of the citizen will conduct him over or near many such scenes. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 351, January 10, 1829
  • Nevertheless, it behoved him also to conduct himself towards the intruder as an old ‘archdeacon should conduct himself to an incoming bishop; and though he was well aware of all Dr. Proudie’s abominable opinions as regarded dissenters, church reform, the hebdomadal council, and such like; though he disliked the man, and hated the doctrines, still he was prepared to show respect to the station of the bishop. Barchester Towers
  • That hebdomadal structure, dividing into four the 28 days of the lunar calendar and allocating one day to be special, is an ancient thing, probably pre-dating the Hebrews, probably going back to the Sumerians.
  • L'hebdomadaire d'opposition tunisien “Ettarik Al-Jadid” (la nouvelle voie) a été saisi samedi par décision judiciaire pour violation du Code de la presse, a-t-on appris de source gouvernementale. Tunisia Detains Another Journalist, as Censorship Measures Grow
  • The hebdomadal letter does not always represent the same weekday every year.
  • Item, the pittancer is to serve out mashed beans to the servants of the convent during Lent as well as to those who are in religion, and at this season he is to provide the prior of the cloister and the hebdomadary with bruised cicerate; 58 but if any one of the same is hebdomadary, he is only to receive one portion. Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino
  • In addition to the special members of a chapter already mentioned there are usually appointed the following, in order to secure well-ordered services: precentor, sacristan, cancellor, succentor, punctator, hebdomadarian. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
  • Ulcera haec aliquando infra sex vel octo menses ipsa se cohaerent; plerumque autem incitamentorum et vi causticorum ad locum adhibita infra hebdomadas tres sanantur. An account of the manners and customs of the Aborigines and the state of their relations with Europeans, by Edward John Eyre
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