α. late Middle English Quadragesme, late Middle English 1600s Quadragesime.
β. late Middle English Quadragesin.
† Quadragesimen.
Christian Church. Obsolete.
Lent; a fast during Lent.
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LentenOE
Lent tidelOE
Lentc1300
Lent timec1400
Quadragesime1483
Lent season?1490
Quadragesimac1560
Great Lent1591
Great Fasta1670
shrift-time1853
1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende f. xiii/1 Our lord by his holy quadragesme dessended to vs, we shold assende to hym by our quadragesme.
a1500 (?a1400) Stanzaic Life of Christ (Harl. 3909) (1926) 4397 (MED) Of quadragesme now speke we, that clene lentoun callet ys.
a1500 (?a1390) J. Mirk Festial (Gough) (1905) 82 Good men and woymen, þys day ys called in holy chyrch Sonday yn Quadragesin.
a1500 (?c1425) Speculum Sacerdotale (1936) 75 After rigour of the institucion of holy fadres..penaunces of yche a yere conteneþ the Quadragesimes and fastynge of thre or two dayes in the weke..and othur obseruaunces.
1612 R. Sheldon 1st Serm. after Conversion 5 To proportion my discourse to the season, when we all are..making a Quadragesime, or fortieth, as a parasceue of Christ his death and passion.
1612 J. Selden in M. Drayton Poly-olbion xi. Illustr. 185 You will loose therein fortie dais, and the common name of Quadragesime.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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