quadragesimal

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And when ten days of the quadragesimal fast were yet remaining, there came one to summon him to the king.

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  1. Pertaining to the forty days of Lent; belonging to Lent; used in Lent; Lenten. Quadragesimal wits, and fancies lean As ember weeks. W. Cartwright, Ordinary, iii. 5. This quadragesimal solemnity, in which, for the space of some weeks, the church has, in some select days, enjoined a total abstinence from flesh. South, Sermons, IX. 134.
  2. An offering formerly made to a mother church by a daughter church on Mid-Lent Sunday.

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  • And when ten days of the quadragesimal fast were yet remaining, there came one to summon him to the king. —  The Evolution of an English Town
  • But that other clause of licensing books, which we thought had died with his brother quadragesimal and matrimonial when the prelates expired, I shall now attend with such a homily, as shall lay before ye, first the inventors of it to be those whom ye will be loath to own; next what is to be thought in general of reading, whatever sort the books be; and that this Order avails nothing to the suppressing of scandalous, seditious, and libellous books, which were mainly intended to be suppressed. —  Areopagitica A speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England
 

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  1. = French quadragésimal = Spanish cuadragesimal = Portuguese quadragesimal = Italian quadragesimale, from Middle Latin quadragesimalis, pertaining to Lent, from Latin quadragesima, Lent: see Quadragesima.
 

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