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Quadragesima   Listen
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Quadragesima  n.  (Eccl.) The forty days of fast preceding Easter; Lent.
Quadragesima Sunday, the first Sunday in Lent, about forty days before Easter.





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"Quadragesima" Quotes from Famous Books



... in die Pascha officio dicto, et facta comestione qualicunque cum duobus Tartaris, qui nobis apud Corrensam fuerant assignati, cum multis lacrymis recessimus, nescientes vtrum ad mortem vel vitam pergeremus. Eramus tamen ita infirmi corpore, quod vix poteramus equitare. In tota siquidem illa quadragesima fuerat cibus noster millum cum aqua et sale tantum, et in alijs similiter diebus ieiuniorum. Nec habebamus aliquid ad bibendum prater niuem in caldario liquefactam. Ibamus autem per Comaniam equitando fortissime quoniam habebamus equos ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries - Vol. II • Richard Hakluyt


Words linked to "Quadragesima" :   Quadrigesima Sunday, Christian holy day


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