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Quadragesimal

[ kwod-ruh-jes-uh-muhl ]

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or suitable for Lent; Lenten.
  2. (sometimes lowercase) lasting 40 days, as the fast of Lent.


Quadragesimal

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adjective

  1. of, relating to, or characteristic of Lent or the season of Lent
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Origin of Quadragesimal1

First recorded in 1620–30; Quadragesim(a) + -al 1
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In Illyria, Achaia and Alexandria the quadragesimal fast lasted six weeks.

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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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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.

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Adj. lenten, quadragesimal†; unfed†; starved &c. v.; half-starved; fasting &c. v.; hungry &c.

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