[f. the sb.]
1. trans. To register in a calendar or list; to register, record.
1487. Act 3 Hen. VII., iii. The names of every such prisoner … to be kalendred by fore the justices for the delyveraunce of the same gaole.
1547. Act 1 Edw. VI., v. § 5. The said Wardens shall cause the Number of the said Horses … to be kalendered in a Book.
1624. Heywood, Gunaik., III. 150. Let that day neuer be callendred, to memorise them.
1697. View of Penal Laws, 97. He shall shew his Licence to one of the Wardens of the Marches (that their number may be Kalendred).
1870. Emerson, Soc. & Sol., Work & Days, Wks. (Bohn), III. 69. Life was then calendared by moments.
2. spec. a. To register in the calendar of saints or saints’ days.
1594. Hooker, Eccl. Pol., V. (1632), 388. Wee are generally more apt to Kalender Saints then Sinners dayes.
a. 1641. Bp. Mountagu, Acts & Mon. (1642), 55. The Divines of Colen, calendred Aristotle for a Saint.
1654. R. Whitlock, Ζωοτομια, 21 (R.). Often martyr’d names (as well as men) are Kalender’d.
1842. Tennyson, St. Sim. Stylites, 130. Holy men, whose names Are register’d and calendar’d for saints.
b. To arrange, analyse and index (documents): see the sb. 4 d.
1859. Riley, Liber Albus, Pref. 21. These books … that are thus calendared.
1878. N. Amer. Rev., CXXVI. 540. Treasures of the Record-Office … lately calendared and indexed.
1881. Sat. Rev., 24 Sept., 395/1. The task of analysing and calendaring [state-]papers.
Hence Calendaring vbl. sb.
1671. F. Philipps, Reg. Necess., Ep. Ded. b 2. Allowances of Money, and Expences for the Calendring and well ordering of them.
