Sexagesima, and Quinquagesima, which denote the Sundays which immediately precede, and the word Quadragesima, which denotes the first. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Hugo Grotius With Brief Minutes of the Civil, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of the Netherlands] Reference
This fast period lasted 40 days, and was, therefore, called "Quadragesima Sancti Martini," which means in Latin "the forty days of St. Martin.". From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-11-01] Reference
Quadragesima signifieth of penance and satisfaction. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Legend, vol. 1] Reference
Quadragesima, 'which Dryasdust declares to mean the 22d day of. From Wordnik.com. [Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.] Reference
Quadragesima containeth forty-two days for to account the Sundays. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Legend, vol. 1] Reference
Rose, symbolism of, 49; the golden rose of Quadragesima Sunday, 50. From Wordnik.com. [Pagan and Christian Rome] Reference
Perhaps the word is only one of a numerical series: Quadragesima, Quinquagesima, etc. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock] Reference
Mass was said on the weekdays of Quadragesima late in the afternoon and food was taken only near sunset (Rock, IV, 76). From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference
The Quadragesima, which we call now in English Lent, beginneth the Sunday in which is sung in the office of the mass: Invocavit me, etc. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Legend, vol. 1] Reference
Quadragesima (the forty days) was originally a period marked by fasting, but not necessarily a period in which the faithful fasted every day. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference
It behoveth then that the number of ten by the number of four be multiplied, that thus we make the Quadragesima, that we fulfil the commandments of the old law and new. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Legend, vol. 1] Reference
Just as Easter was followed by fifty days of rejoicing, so it had its period of preparation by prayer and fasting, from which arose the season of Lent, which, after various changes, commenced finally forty days before Easter, whence its name of Quadragesima. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne] Reference
Therefore the Brothers did firmly determine to deny themselves somewhat and to contribute more largely to the poor, and for their sake add one hour of daily work to the usual period of labour throughout the Season of Quadragesima: and to hand the whole that they might gain by their copying in that hour to the Overseer of the poor, that therewith he might buy them the necessary victual and faithfully minister to them. From Wordnik.com. [The Founders of the New Devotion: Being the Lives of Gerard Groote, Florentius Radewin and Their Followers.] Reference
† Dominica Secunda in Quadragesima ~ Second Sunday in Lent. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
† Traditional Sunday Propers ~ Dominica Secunda in Quadragesima ~ Second Sunday in Lent †. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
Quadragesima tertia, vol.iii. column 849. From Wordnik.com. [Bibliomania in the Middle Ages] Reference
Quadragesima. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference
Of Quadragesima. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Legend, vol. 1] Reference
Quadragesima. i. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Legend, vol. 7] Reference
Week in Quadragesima. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference
Quadragesima Sunday, 50. From Wordnik.com. [Pagan and Christian Rome] Reference
Quadragesima Sunday.). From Wordnik.com. [The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2] Reference
Quadragesima; Vestments). From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference
Quadragesima ( "Lent", also the "Fortieth day" before. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference
The denominations of those Sundays give rise to two difficulties; one, that they seem to imply that each week consists of ten, not of seven days; the other, that the words sound as if Septuagesima were the seventieth, when it is only the sixty-third day before Easter Sunday; Sexagesima, as if it were the sixtieth, when it is only the fifty-sixth; Quinquagesima, as if it were the fiftieth, when it is the forty-ninth; Quadragesima, as if it were the fortieth, when it is the forty-second. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Hugo Grotius With Brief Minutes of the Civil, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of the Netherlands] Reference
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