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Definition:The fifteenth day of March, May, July, and October, and the thirteenth day of the other months.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Wooferoonie (the other): Tutankhamen McPerson, you come not a wait too soon, for is this not the weather fair for this, the ides of June?
BBC. Blackadder Season 1, episode 2: Born to be King
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Burying him. We come to bury Caesar. His ides of March or June.
James Joyce. Ulysses
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The ides of March remember.
William Shakespeare. Julius Caesar
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Note: Eight days in each month often pass by this name, but only one strictly receives it, the others being called respectively the day before the ides, and so on, backward, to the eighth from the ides.
Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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