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septuagesima

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Sep=tu=a=ges=i=ma

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun septuagesima has 1 sense

septuagesima(n = noun.time) septuagesima sunday - the 3rd Sunday before Lent (or the 9th before Easter); Array

is a kind of christian holy day

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CIDE DICTIONARY

septuagesima, n. [NL., fr. L. septuagesimus the seventieth, fr. septuaginta seventy.].

The third Sunday before Lent; -- so called because it is about seventy days before Easter. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

septuagesima, n. (in full Septuagesima Sunday) the Sunday before Sexagesima.

Etymology

ME f. L, = seventieth (day), formed as SEPTUAGINT, perh. after QUINQUAGESIMA or with ref. to the period of 70 days from Septuagesima to the Saturday after Easter

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