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== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_163476" /> == | |||
<p> (fortieth day) is a name sometimes applied to the Lenten season, or more properly to the first Sunday of Lent (q.v.). It is so called by analogy with the three Sundays which precede Lent, and which are called respectively Septuagesima, seventieth; Sexagesima, sixtieth; and Quinquagesima, fiftieth. The whole period of [[Quadragesima]] is in the [[Roman]] [[Catholic]] [[Church]] accounted as tempus clausum. </p> | <p> (n.) The forty days of fast preceding Easter; Lent. </p> | ||
== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_57149" /> == | |||
<p> (fortieth day) is a name sometimes applied to the Lenten season, or more properly to the first Sunday of [[Lent]] (q.v.). It is so called by analogy with the three Sundays which precede Lent, and which are called respectively Septuagesima, seventieth; Sexagesima, sixtieth; and Quinquagesima, fiftieth. The whole period of [[Quadragesima]] is in the [[Roman]] [[Catholic]] [[Church]] accounted as tempus clausum. </p> | |||
== The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_78532" /> == | |||
<p> E . fortieth), a name given to [[Lent]] because it lasts forty days, and assigned also to the first Sunday in Lent, the three Sundays which precede it being called respectively Septuagesima, Sexagesima, and Quinquagesima. </p> | |||
==References == | ==References == | ||
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<ref name="term_163476"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/webster-s-dictionary/quadragesima Quadragesima from Webster's Dictionary]</ref> | |||
<ref name="term_57149"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/quadragesima Quadragesima from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref> | <ref name="term_57149"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/quadragesima Quadragesima from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref> | ||
<ref name="term_78532"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/the-nuttall-encyclopedia/quadragesima Quadragesima from The Nuttall Encyclopedia]</ref> | |||
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Revision as of 08:52, 12 October 2021
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(n.) The forty days of fast preceding Easter; Lent.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [2]
(fortieth day) is a name sometimes applied to the Lenten season, or more properly to the first Sunday of Lent (q.v.). It is so called by analogy with the three Sundays which precede Lent, and which are called respectively Septuagesima, seventieth; Sexagesima, sixtieth; and Quinquagesima, fiftieth. The whole period of Quadragesima is in the Roman Catholic Church accounted as tempus clausum.
The Nuttall Encyclopedia [3]
E . fortieth), a name given to Lent because it lasts forty days, and assigned also to the first Sunday in Lent, the three Sundays which precede it being called respectively Septuagesima, Sexagesima, and Quinquagesima.
