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† triˈcennal Obs.
[ad. med.(Anglo-)L. trīcennāle, in form neuter of L. trīcennālis of or belonging to thirty years, f. triciēs thirty times + annus year, but app. erroneously used for a tricenary or trental.]
= tricenary B.
1537tr. Latimer's 2nd Serm. bef. Convoc. E ij, Your forefathers sawe somwhat whiche made this constitution, against the venalitie and sale of Masses, that vnder peine of suspending, no priest shuld sell his sayinge of tricennals, or annals. [1707Fleetwood Chron. Prec. (1745) 109 Tricennalia were called Trentals from Trigintalia, and in English, a months-mind, because the service lasted a month or 30 days, in which they said so many masses.] |