KALEND, are also used in church history to denote conferences anciently held by the clergy of each deanery, on the first day of every month, concerning their duty and conduct, especially in what related to the imposition of penance.
KALEND of January, in Roman antiquity, was a solemn festival consecrated to Juno and Janus; wherein the Romans offered vows and sacrifices to those deities, and exchanged presents among themselves as a token of friendship.
It was only a melancholy day to debtors, who were then obliged to pay their interests, &c. Hence Horace calls it tristes kalendæ; Lib. I. Serm. Sat. 3.