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Quadragesima definition

Quad·ra·ges·ima (kwä′drə jā′zi mə, -jes′i-)

noun

  1. Obsolete the forty days of Lent
  2. the first Sunday in Lent
    also Quadragesima Sunday

Etymology: LL(Ec) < fem. of L quadragesimus, fortieth < quadraginta, forty < base of quattuor, four

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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