单词 | Quadragesima |
释义 | ‖ Quadragesima Eccl.|kwɒdrəˈdʒɛsɪmə| [med.L., fem. (sc. dies day) of L. quadrāgēsimus fortieth, f. quadrāgintā forty; hence also It., Pg. quadragesima (Sp. cuad-), F. quadragésime (1487). The popular Romanic forms are It. quaresima, Pg. quaresma, Sp. cuaresma, OF. quaresme, caresme, F. carême; cf. also Ir. corghas, cairghios, Gael. carghus, W. garawys from pop.Lat. *quarages-ima.] †a. The forty days of Lent. Obs. b. (Also Quadragesima Sunday.) The first Sunday in Lent.
[1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. ix. xxx. (1495) 364 Lente highte Quadragesima.] 1604Bk. Com. Prayer Tables, Quadragesima, before Easter, vi weekes. 1617Minsheu Ductor, Quadragesima Sunday, or the first Sunday in Lent. Ibid., Quadragesima is the first Sunday in Lent. 1662Bk. Com. Prayer Tables, Quadragesima, six weeks before Easter. 1662Gunning Lent Fast 167 A Quadragesima all call'd it. 1665Evelyn Corr. 9 Feb. (1872) III. 151, I have always esteemed abstinence a tanto beyond the fulfilling of periods and quadragesimas. 1794W. Tindal Evesham 34 He was on Quadragesima Sunday confirmed Abbot. |

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