a. [ad. L. Jūliān-us of or pertaining to Julius; in mod.F. julien.] Pertaining to Julius Cæsar: used in Chronol. in connection with the reform of the calendar instituted by him in the year 46 B.C.
Julian account, = ‘old style’ (see STYLE); Julian calendar (see CALENDAR sb. 1); Julian epoch, era, the time from which the Julian calendar dates (46 B.C.); Julian period, a period of 7980 Julian years, proposed by Joseph Scaliger in 1582 as a universal standard of comparison of chronology, consisting of the product of the numbers of years in the solar and lunar cycles and the cycle of the indiction (28 × 19 × 15); Julian year, a year of the Julian calendar, or the average year (= 3651/4 days) of that calendar.
1592. Dee, Compend. Rehears. (Chetham Soc.), 22. Upon the Gregorian publishing of a Reformation of the vulgar Julian yeare.
1594. Blundevil, Exerc., III. I. xli. (1636), 355. The Julian yeere is that which wee use at this present day.
1613. Purchas, Pilgrimage (1614), 168. After Scaliger … this yeare 1612 is the 1614 of Christ, of the world 5461 … of the Iulian Period 6325.
1677. W. Hubbard, Narrative (1865), I. 179. This 26 of March being the first Day of the Week, as the first of the Year after our Julian account.
1709. Steele, Tatler, No. 39, ¶ 2. The Gregorian Computation was the most regular, as being Eleven Days before the Julian.
1816. Playfair, Nat. Phil., II. 110. In the year 1582, the Julian year had fallen nearly 10 days … behind the sun.
1899. W. M. Ramsay, in Expositor, Nov., 433. The Julian reform of the calendar had come into force in the beginning of 45 B.C.
