单词 | quinquagesimal |
释义 | quinquagesimaladj. Designating, belonging to, or relating to a set of fifty things (esp. days); based on division into fifty parts. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > a day or twenty-four hours > [adjective] > of or lasting specific number of days novendial1533 triduan1597 quadragesimal1610 hebdomadal1612 quinquagesimal1652 tricenary1655 septuary1700 tridiurnal1828 trigesimal1839 trihemeral1840 ninety-day1859 three-day1890 society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Pentecost > [adjective] > fifty days preceding quinquagesimal1652 1652 D. Cawdrey Sabbatum Redivivum ii. 12 They of two sorts... 2. Quinquagesimall, which was every fiftieth year, called the Jubile. 1845 J. Lingard Hist. & Antiq. Anglo-Saxon Church (ed. 3) II. xi. 197 The quinquagesimal days were the fifty days between Easter and Whitsunday. 1884 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. III. 1801/2 As designating the last day of this quinquagesimal period, the word ‘Pentecost’ is first found in..305. 1887 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 8 148 Every where alike the first multiple of the unit in the case of gold or silver is decimal or quinquagesimal, not sexagesimal. 1959 Biblical Archaeologist 2 35 The Hebrew governmental and commercial systrem was quinquagesimal rather than sexagesimal. 2000 J. McKinnon Advent Project xiv. 358 The quinquagesima of Easter and Pentecost is virtually apostolic in origin, owing much to the quinquagesimal framework of the three great Jewish pilgrimage festivals—Passover, Weeks and Tabernacles—each separated by fifty days. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1652 |
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