Septuagesima
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Septuagesima
1350–1400; < Late Latin septuāgēsima ( diēs ) the seventieth (day), feminine of septuāgēsimus, ordinal corresponding to septuāgintā seventy; replacing Middle English septuages ( i ) me < Old French < Late Latin, as above
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Selections from Isaiah are read on these four Sundays, on Christmas Day, and on the four or five Sundays which usually follow Christmas before Septuagesima.
From The Prayer Book Explained by Percival Jackson
Renard assured her that the prince should be in her arms before Septuagesima, and all her trials would be over.
From The Reign of Mary Tudor by Ernest Rhys
And in this sort the Book of Esaie was begun in Advent, and the Book of Genesis in Septuagesima, but they were only begun and never read through .
From A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer by William Reed Huntington
Septuagesima and Trinity XXI. are, on account of their first lessons, fitting Sundays for its use; nor is it by any means unsuitable for a harvest festival.
From The Three Additions to Daniel, a Study by William Heaford Daubney
May not Septuagesima Sunday be so called because there are just seventy days in the Paschal Season?
From Our Calendar by George Nichols Packer
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