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
Example Sentences
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The book is divided according to six liturgical seasons�Advent, Christmastide, Septuagesima, Lent, Paschaltide and Time after Pentecost.
From Time Magazine Archive
May not Septuagesima Sunday be so called because there are just seventy days in the Paschal Season?
From Our Calendar by Packer, George Nichols
Tract, trakt, n. something drawn out or extended: continued duration: a region, area: a short treatise: an anthem sung instead of the Alleluia after the gradual, or instead of it, from Septuagesima till Easter-eve.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
Pre-Lenten Season.—The name commonly given to the weeks preceding Lent covered by the three Sundays entitled, Septuagesima, Sexagesima and Quinquagesima.
From The American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia by Miller, William James
In the Sundays of Advent, Sundays after Septuagesima until Palm Sunday, and in the triduum before Easter, there are nine responsories recited.
From The Divine Office by Quigley, Edward J.
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