QUADRAGESIMA

quadragesima. Quadragesima, n. Lent consisting of 4 days

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‖Quad′ra‐ges″i‐ma (?), n. [[L., fr. quadragesimus the fortieth, fr. quadraginta forty; akin to quattuor four. See Four.]] (Eccl.) The forty days of fast preceding Easter; Lent. Quadragesima Sunday, the first Sunday in Lent, about forty days before Easter.