Gregorian

Gre·go·rian

of or introduced by Pope Gregory I or Pope Gregory XIII

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Adjective

Of or relating to a person named Gregory, especially any of the popes of that name.
Of or pertaining to the Gregorian calendar.
An average Gregorian year is 365.2425 days.
Of or relating to James Gregory (mathematician), inventor of the Gregorian telescope.

Noun

(plural Gregorians)

A member of the Brotherhood of Saint Gregory

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On the 30th of November 1895 there was a massacre of Armenians, in which several Gregorian priests and Protestant pastors lost their lives.
The Gregorian correction of the calendar in 1582 has once more led to different days being observed.
In 1613 he appeared with the emperor Matthias before the diet of Ratisbon as the advocate of the introduction into Germany of the Gregorian calendar; but the attempt was for the time frustrated by anti-papal prejudice.
- Gregorian Calendar.
So far as Western Christendom is concerned the corrected calendar is now universally accepted, and Easter is kept on the same day, but it was not until 1752 that the Gregorian reformation of the calendar was adopted in Great Britain and Ireland.

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