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quadragesima


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Quadragesima  \Quad`ra*ges"i*ma\,  n.  [L.,  fr  quadragesimus  the 
  fortieth,  fr  quadraginta  forty;  akin  to  quattuor  four  See 
  {Four}.]  (Eccl.) 
  The  forty  days  of  fast  preceding  Easter;  Lent. 
 
  {Quadragesima  Sunday},  the  first  Sunday  in  Lent,  about  forty 
  days  before  Easter. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  Quadragesima 
  n  :  the  first  Sunday  in  Lent  [syn:  {Quadragesima},  {Quadrigesima 
  Sunday}] 




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