Now however a septennial bill was trans - mitted, and returned altered into an octennial one. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Ireland: From Its Invasion Under Henry II. to Its Union with Great Britain] Reference
Of late these shackles, if I mistake not, have been broken; and octennial parliaments have besides been established. From Wordnik.com. [The Federalist Papers] Reference
Now an octennial cycle is the shortest period at the end of which sun and moon really mark time together after overlapping, so to say, throughout the whole of the interval. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion] Reference
At length, in the session of 1767, "the Septennial Bill," as it was called, was returned from England, changed to octennial, and with this alteration it passed into law, in February, 1768. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics - Volume 2] Reference
Without being unduly rash we may surmise that the tribute of seven youths and seven maidens whom the Athenians were bound to send to Minos every eight years had some connexion with the renewal of the king's power for another octennial cycle. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion] Reference
Without being unduly rash we may surmise that the tribute of seven youths and seven maidens whom the Athenians were bound to send to Minos every eight years had some connexion with the renewal of the kings power for another octennial cycle. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 24. The Killing of the Divine King. § 3. Kings killed at the End of a Fixed Term] Reference
After much difficulty Townshend obtained the augmentation, with the proviso that 12,000 troops should be kept in the country, and the patriotic party, Lord Charlemont, Lucas, Flood, and others, were gratified by the octennial act limiting the duration of parliament to eight years. From Wordnik.com. [The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration] Reference
The common practice was to make occasional corrections as they became necessary, in order to preserve the relation between the octennial period and the state of the heavens; but these corrections being left to the care of incompetent persons, the calendar soon fell into great disorder, and no certain rule was followed till a new division of the year was proposed by Meton and Euctemon, which was immediately adopted in all the states and dependencies of Greece. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
354, and this in 24 years (3 octennial periods) produced an error of 24 days; this error was exactly compensated by intercalating only 66 days. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08] Reference
365¼ days; but it is not certain at what time the octennial periods, borrowed from the Greeks, were introduced into the Roman calendar, or whether they were at any time strictly followed. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
(there were many employed ia its service,) as - sailed him in evc; ry way that their malign viva such as the octennial bill, and other measures, were of vital magnitude, to Ire - land: Xord Charlemont always regarded him. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Political and Private Life of James Caulfield, Earl of Charlemont, Knight of St ...] Reference
Without being unduly rash we may surmise that the tribute of seven youths and seven maidens whom the Athenians were bound to send to Minos every eight years had some connexion with the renewal of the king’s power for another octennial cycle. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Bough : a study of magic and religion] Reference
(90-24) in the third octennial period. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08] Reference
Irish Acts of Parliament, of settlement, 71; octennial, 77; of 1793, 85, 158, 159; of union, 74, 75, 81, 83-85. From Wordnik.com. [Historical and Political Essays] Reference
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