MDMD Ult. & Quakers and the Georgian Calendar

[Terrance]

ult. abbr. 1. Ultimate. 2. Ultimately. 3. Ultimo.
 ul·ti·mate  Abbr. ult. 1. Being last in a series, process,
or progression. (AHD) 

In 1751 the parliament adopted the Georgian Calendar
enacting that henceforth the year should begin on the 1st of
January instead of the 25th of March, and that eleven days
should be struck out of the following September. The Society
resolved to accept the new almanac, for it would have been
folly to have made war against the sun in its circuit
through the heavens, but the seized upon the opportunity to
impress upon Friends the sin of calling the months and days
by the names of heathen gods. They, moreover, had now a new
argument against the common nomenclature; for to speak
henceforward of September, October, November, or December
was to utter a falsehood, as these were to be no longer the
seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth, but ninth, tenth,
eleventh, and twelfth, months of the year. In spite,
however, of the logic and arithmetic of the Quakers, the
people persist in calling the months by their old names,
without imagining they tell a lie of do honour to Pagan
deities. 



THE QUAKERS
>From Their Origin To The Present Time: An International
History (Edinburgh, 1867) 
John Cunningham, D.D., Author of "The Church History Of
Scotland," ETC.