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-== Charles Buck Theological Dictionary <ref name="term_20659" /> ==
+== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_89044" /> ==
-<p> The first day of Lent, when, in the primitive church, notorious sinners were put to open penance thus: They appeared at the church door barefooted, and clothed in sackcloth, where, being examined, their discipline was proportioned according to their offences; after which, being brought into the church, the bishop singing the seven penitential psalms, they prostrated themselves, and with tears begged absolution; the whole congregation having ashes on their heads, to signify, that they were both mortal and deserved to be burnt to ashes for their sins. </p>
+<p> The first day of Lent; - so called from a custom in the Roman [[Catholic]] church of putting ashes, on that day, upon the foreheads of penitents. </p>
 ==References ==
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-<ref name="term_20659"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/charles-buck-theological-dictionary/wednesday,+ash Ash Wednesday from Charles Buck Theological Dictionary]</ref>
+<ref name="term_89044"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/webster-s-dictionary/ash+wednesday Ash Wednesday from Webster's Dictionary]</ref>
 </references>