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quinquagesima

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun quinquagesima has 1 sense

quinquagesima(n = noun.time) quinquagesima sunday - the Sunday before Ash Wednesday (the beginning of Lent); Array

is a kind of christian holy day

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CIDE DICTIONARY

quinquagesima, a. [L., fr. quinquagesimus the fiftieth, akin to quinquaginta fifty, quinque five. See Five.].

Fiftieth. [1913 Webster]

Quinquagesima Sunday, the Sunday which is the fiftieth day before Easter, both days being included in the reckoning; -- called also Shrove Sunday.

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

quinquagesima, n. (in full Quinquagesima Sunday) the Sunday before the beginning of Lent.

Etymology

med.L, fem. of L quinquagesimus fiftieth f. quinquaginta fifty, after QUADRAGESIMA

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