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quinquaˈgesimal, a. [f. as prec. + -al1.] Belonging to a set of fifty; containing fifty days.
1844Lingard Anglo-Sax. Ch. (1858) II. xi. 179 note, The quinquagesimal days were the fifty days between Easter and Whitsunday. 1884Schaff Encycl. Relig. Knowl. III. 1801/2 As designating the last day of this quinquagesimal period, the word ‘Pentecost’ is first found in..305. |