quarter tensen.

Brit.

/ˈkwɔːtə ˌtɛns/, U.S.

/ˈkwɔrdər ˌtɛns/

Forms: also occasionally with capital initial(s).

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: quarter n., tense n.

Etymology: < quarter n. + tense n., after French Quatre Temps quater temps n.

= quater temps n.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > worship > liturgical year > fast > [noun] > period of > recurrent, Ember days

emberc1000

ember-daya1036

ember-fasta1036

quater tempsc1430

ember-Friday1584

ember-eve1609

quarter tense1869

1869 T. Arnold in Wyclif's Sel. Wks. I. 377 ‘Quatuor Tempora’, or, as it is called in Ireland, Quarter Tense.

1892 Middletown (N.Y.) Daily Times 11 June 3/2 Yesterday and to-day and ember days, or fast days of the quarter tense in Catholic churches.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvi. [Eumaeus] 576 To fast and abstain on the days commanded, it being quarter tense or, if not, ember days or something like that.

1955 P. Flynn Red Let. Feasts for Catholic Schools iii. 20 Ember Days (Quarter Tense).

1991 T. J. Talley Origins Liturg. Year (ed. 2) ii. viii. 111 Nor, in fact, were the dates assigned to the quarter-tense days in the Julian calendar astronomically correct.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	quarter tense
释义	quarter tensen. Brit. /ˈkwɔːtə ˌtɛns/, U.S. /ˈkwɔrdər ˌtɛns/ Forms: also occasionally with capital initial(s). Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: quarter n., tense n. Etymology: < quarter n. + tense n., after French Quatre Temps quater temps n. = quater temps n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > fast > [noun] > period of > recurrent, Ember days emberc1000 ember-daya1036 ember-fasta1036 quater tempsc1430 ember-Friday1584 ember-eve1609 quarter tense1869 1869 T. Arnold in Wyclif's Sel. Wks. I. 377 ‘Quatuor Tempora’, or, as it is called in Ireland, Quarter Tense. 1892 Middletown (N.Y.) Daily Times 11 June 3/2 Yesterday and to-day and ember days, or fast days of the quarter tense in Catholic churches. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvi. [Eumaeus] 576 To fast and abstain on the days commanded, it being quarter tense or, if not, ember days or something like that. 1955 P. Flynn Red Let. Feasts for Catholic Schools iii. 20 Ember Days (Quarter Tense). 1991 T. J. Talley Origins Liturg. Year (ed. 2) ii. viii. 111 Nor, in fact, were the dates assigned to the quarter-tense days in the Julian calendar astronomically correct. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1869
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