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Quinquagesima(dictionary)

Quinquagesima (iou)



Quinquagesima noun. LME.
[medieval Latin, use as noun (sc. dies day) of fem. of Latin quinquagesimus fiftieth, from quinquaginta fifty, after QUADRAGESIMA.]
Ecclesiastical. The Sunday before the beginning of Lent (also more fully Quinquagesima Sunday). Formerly also, the period beginning with this day and ending on Easter Sunday.
quinquagesimal adjective constituting or belonging to a set of fifty days M19.