Literary notes about Biennial (AI summary)
The term "biennial" has been employed in literature to convey a sense of periodicity and structure across varied contexts. In political and historical narratives, as seen in Thomas Carlyle’s works, it marks events or bodies that convene every two years—whether referring to the assembly of a legislative body ([1], [2], [3], [4], [5]) or describing roles such as a biennial Senator ([6]). Mark Twain’s reference to a "biennial pilgrimage" ([7]) similarly underscores the significance and ceremonious nature of an event occurring every two years. Beyond the political sphere, "biennial" is also used in botanical texts to characterize plants that complete their life cycle in two years ([8], [9]), while even commemorative practices are described as biennial events ([10]). This multifaceted usage highlights how the term bridges the realms of politics, science, and culture, consistently emphasizing a two-year cyclical pattern.
- but they are the First biennial Parliament, come to govern France by parliamentary eloquence: and they are what?
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle - Our new biennial Legislative begins to constitute itself on the first of October, 1791.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle - Our First biennial Parliament, which indeed has been a-choosing since early in August, is now as good as chosen.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle - Accordingly one finds, with little astonishment, in this First Biennial, that as many as Four hundred Members are of the Advocate or Attorney species.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle - With which, what we had to say of this First French biennial Parliament, and its products and activities, may perhaps fitly enough terminate.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle - A biennial Senator he too; nay, for the present, the king of such.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle - It gives one an impressive sense of the magnitude of this biennial pilgrimage.
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain - They are umbelliferous, and mostly perennial, herbaceous plants, but a few are biennial.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide by Various - Alexanders ( Smyrnium Olusātrum ), an umbelliferous biennial plant, a native of the Mediterranean region, but found in Great Britain and Ireland.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide by Various - Biennales , sb. pl. biennials, biennial commemorations of the dead, P. Bierne , sb.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson
