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Quadragesima
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Quadragesima has 1 sense
- quadragesima(n = noun.time) quadrigesima sunday - the first Sunday in Lent; Array is a kind of christian holy day
CIDE DICTIONARY
Quadragesima, n. [L., fr. quadragesimus the fortieth, fr. quadraginta forty; akin to quattuor four. See Four.].
The forty days of fast preceding Easter; Lent. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Quadragesima, n. the first Sunday in Lent.
Etymology
LL, fem. of L quadragesimus fortieth f. quadraginta forty, Lent having 40 days
ROGET THESAURUS
Quadragesima
Fasting
N fasting, xerophagy, famishment, starvation, fast, jour maigre, fast day, banyan day, Lent, quadragesima, Ramadan, Ramazan, spare diet, meager diet, lenten diet, lenten entertainment, soupe maigre, short commons, Barmecide feast, short rations, lenten, quadragesimal, unfed, starved, half-starved, fasting, hungry.
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