Sexagesima

American  

[sek-suh-jes-uh-muh, -jey-zuh-] / ˌsɛk səˈdʒɛs ə mə, -ˈdʒeɪ zə- /

noun

1. the second Sunday before Lent.

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Sexagesima British  

/ ˌsɛksəˈdʒɛsɪmə /

noun

1. the second Sunday before Lent

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Etymology

Origin of Sexagesima

1350–1400; Middle English < Latin sexāgēsima ( diēs ) sixtieth (day), feminine of sexāgēsimus, ordinal corresponding to sexāgintā sixty

Example Sentences

Archbishop Greenfield enjoined the Prioress and Subprioress not to permit boys or girls to eat flesh meat in Advent or Sexagesima, or during Lent eggs or cheese, in the refectory, contrary to the honesty of religion, but at those seasons when they ought to eat such things, they were to be assigned other places in which to eat them.

From Project Gutenberg

Quadragesima, kwod-ra-jes′i-ma, n. the Latin name for the whole season of Lent, with its forty days: the name commonly assigned to the first Sunday in Lent, by analogy with the three Sundays which precede Lent—Septuagesima, Sexagesima, and Quinquagesima.—adj.

From Project Gutenberg

Hitherto when Hattie, her best friend, who was Presbyterian, spoke of Rally Day, or Sadie, her next best friend, who was Methodist, spoke of Canvassing Day, Emmy Lou of St. Simeon's refrained from dwelling on Septuagesima, or Sexagesima, or Quinquagesima Sunday, as the case might be, for fear it appear to savor of the elect.

From Project Gutenberg

The Dominicae majores of the first class are the first Sunday in Advent, the first in Lent, Passion Sunday, Palm Sunday, Easter Sunday, Dominica in Albis, Whitsunday and Trinity Sunday; the Dominicae majores of the second class are the second, third and fourth in Advent, Septuagesima, Sexagesima and Quinquagesima Sundays, and the second, third and fourth Sundays in Lent.

From Project Gutenberg

There being exactly fifty days between the Sunday next before Lent and Easter Day, inclusive, that Sunday was termed Quinquagesima, i. e., the fiftieth; and the two immediately preceding Sundays were called from the next round numbers Sexagesima, the sixtieth; and Septuagesima, the seventieth.

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