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Sentence Examples
Divine names were also used to designate the 30 days of each month and of the 12 months of the year, plus five epact days, called gahānīg, to align the lunar with the solar year.
Examples from Classical Literature
The epact is the number of days which must be added to a lunar year to complete a solar year.
The epact thus continues to vary until at the end of nineteen years the new moons return as at first.
For, says he, because of the double epact that occurs on the 4th and 5th of April that lunation has only 29 days.
On account of the solar equation S, the epact J must be diminished by unity every centesimal year, excepting always the fourth.
Thus we have the epact, or age of the Calendar moon at the beginning of the year.
Thus, when the epact is 17, the new and full moons of March fall on the 13th and 28th.
During those few and sombre days which represented the epact of the dying year, Martin Grimbal returned to Chagford.
In the calendar this epact first occurs before the 2nd of December at the 26th of November.
Having determined the epact of the year, it only remains to find Easter Sunday from the conditions already laid down.
