Definitions

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to the Easter.
  • adjective Of or pertaining to the Passover.

Etymologies

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From Latin paschālis; ultimately from Hebrew פסח (pésakh).

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Examples

  • The term Paschal Tide was usually interpreted to mean the two weeks between Palm and Low Sundays (Synod of Avignon, 1337); by St. Antonine of Florence it was restricted to

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

  • First of all it refers to Christ’s Passion, his Death and Resurrection, and his Ascension -- what we call the Paschal Mystery.

    Archive 2008-04-20 papabear 2008

  • When it is said, then, that they were going to eat the Pasch on the fifteenth day of the month, it is to be understood that the Pasch there is not called the Paschal lamb, which was sacrificed on the fourteenth day, but the Paschal food -- that is, the unleavened bread -- which had to be eaten by the clean.

    Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas

  • The Hebrew word is pasach, to pass. 1 The lamb slain was called the Paschal Lamb.

    Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning 1920

  • Just like Christians in ancient times, Capitol Drive Lutheran Church parishioners started the Easter Vigil at sundown with a bonfire from which one candle, called the Paschal candle, was lighted.

    JSOnline.com 2010

  • Just like Christians in ancient times, Capitol Drive Lutheran Church parishioners started the Easter Vigil at sundown with a bonfire from which one candle, called the Paschal candle, was lighted.

    JSOnline.com JSOnline.com 2010

  • Just like Christians in ancient times, Capitol Drive Lutheran Church parishioners started the Easter Vigil at sundown with a bonfire from which one candle, called the Paschal candle, was lighted.

    JSOnline.com JSOnline.com 2010

  • Just like Christians in ancient times, Capitol Drive Lutheran Church parishioners started the Easter Vigil at sundown with a bonfire from which one candle, called the Paschal candle, was lighted.

    JSOnline.com 2010

  • Just like Christians in ancient times, Capitol Drive Lutheran Church parishioners started the Easter Vigil at sundown with a bonfire from which one candle, called the Paschal candle, was lighted.

    JSOnline.com 2010

  • "Paschal," he cried, sinking into a chair and spreading both hands helplessly on the table before him, "it is _he!

    Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

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