Citations:Duodecember

English citations of Duodecember

• 1862, Sir George Cornewall Lewis, An Historical Survey of the Astronomy of the Ancients, Parker, Son, and Bourn, West Strand, page 45:

  It was thought that if the primitive year had contained twelve months, the nomenclator would not have stopped at December, but would have denoted the two remaining months by the names of Undecember and Duodecember.

• 1886 July, Frederic Harrison, “A Few More Words About Names”, in Eclectic Magazine, volume XLIV, number 1, page 25:

  One would think Mr. Freeman can never bring himself to speak of the Fortnightly Review or the month of December; and not to awaken "false ideas," that he always speaks of our contemporary as the "Monthly," and calls the twelfth month of the year—Duodecember.

• 1909, Guglielmo Ferrero, Characters and Events of Roman History, from Caesar to Nero, G. P. Putnam's Sons, page 79:

  His rascality was so stupendous that since the Gauls paid certain taxes every month, he increased to fourteen the number of the months, declaring that December, the last, was only the tenth; consequently it was necessary to create two more, one called Undecember and another, Duodecember.

• 1953, Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man:

  He put on a gown and glanced at the clock. [...] The dial read:

	A.D. 2301
VENUS	EARTH	MARS
Mean Solar Day 22	February 15	Duodecember 35
Noon+09	0205 Greenwich	2220 Central Syrtis