in the church of Rome, a term applied to the masses celebrated for the dead during a whole year.

ANNALS, in matters of literature, a species of history, which relates events in the chronological order wherein they happened. They differ from perfect history in this, that annals are a bare relation of what happened every year, as a journal is of what passes every day; whereas history relates, not only the transactions themselves, but also the causes, motives, and springs of actions.