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quindene Eccl. Antiq.|ˈkwɪndiːn|
[ad. med.L. quindēna, f. L. quindēnī, distrib. of quindecim fifteen.]
The fifteenth (in mod. reckoning, fourteenth) day after a church-festival. Cf. quinzième.
1494Fabyan Chron. II. 460 He toke his leue of seynt Denys about y⊇ quyndene of Pasche. 1605Stow Ann. 487 On the eleuenth of March, the Parliament was proroged vnto the quinden of Pasch. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. ii. Ireland 177 In the Quindene of Easter, news out of England arrived in Ireland. 1700Tyrrell Hist. Eng. II. 873 The Quindene, or Fifteenth day after Easter was appointed. 1758R. Lowth Life William of Wykeham 157 In the Parliament holden at Westminster, on the Quindene of St. Hilary last past. 1875Stubbs Const. Hist. II. xiv. 65 note, The second parliament was held at Oxford in the quindene of Easter. |