is also extended to an orderly table or enumeration of persons or things.

Lord Bacon wishes for a kalendar of doubts. A late writer has given a kalendar of the persons who may inherit estates in fee-simple.

Kalendarium, originally denoted, among the Romans, a book containing an account of moneys at interest, which became due on the kalends of January, the usual time when the Roman usurers let out their money.

KALENDAR Months, the solar months, as they stand in the kalendar, viz. January 31 days, &c.

Astronomical KALENDAR, an instrument engraved upon copper plates, printed on paper, and pasted on board, with a brass slider which carries a hair, and shows by inspection the sun's meridian altitude, right ascension, declination, rising, setting, amplitude, &c. to a greater exactness than our common globes will show.

KALENDAR of Prisoners. See CALENDAR.

KALENDAR Brothers, a sort of devout fraternities, composed of ecclesiastics as well as laymen; whose chief business was to procure masses to be said, and alms distributed, for the souls of such members as were deceased. They were also denominated kalend-brothers, because they usually met on the kalends of each month, though in some places only once a quarter.

KALENDARIUM festum. The Christians retained much of the ceremony and wantonness of the kalends of January, which for many ages was held a feast, and celebrated by the clergy with great indecencies, under the names festum kalendarium, or hypodiacronum, or stultorum; that is, "the feast of fools;" sometimes also libertas decembrica. The people met masked in the church; and in a ludicrous way proceeded to the election of a mock pope, or bishop, who exercised a jurisdiction over them suitable to the festivity of the occasion. Fathers, councils, and popes, long laboured in vain to restrain this license, which prevailed at the close of the 15th century.