hebdomadal

How To Use hebdomadal In A Sentence

• The classes were undergoing sweeping and purification by candle-light, according to hebdomadal custom: benches were piled on desks, the air was dim with dust, damp coffee-grounds (used by Labassecourien housemaids instead of tea-leaves) darkened the floor; all was hopeless confusion. Villette
• So the bishop was searched for by the Revs.Messrs. Grey and Green and found in one corner of the tent enjoying himself thoroughly in a disquisition on the hebdomadal board. Barchester Towers
• Earlier, 11-year-old Nicholas Rushlow of Pickerington correctly spelled "noisette" before stumbling on "hebdomadally" to tie for 17th place. Undefined
• The list of the beauties who displayed their hebdomadal finery at the parish church of Waverley was neither numerous nor select. Waverley
• Still, the hebdomadal legwork must go on. The Times Literary Supplement
• The hebdomadal letter does not always represent the same weekday every year.
• 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.
• 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
• 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
• Tom Staple would have willingly been impaled before a Committee of the House, could he by such self-sacrifice have infused his own spirit into the component members of the hebdomadal board. Barchester Towers