Found 2 items, similar to quadragesima.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: Quadragesima
Quadragesima
n : the first Sunday in Lent [syn:
Quadrigesima Sunday]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Quadragesima
Quadragesima
\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.
[1913 Webster]
Quadragesima Sunday, the first Sunday in Lent, about forty
days before Easter.
[1913 Webster]