单词 | sexagesima |
释义 | Sexagesiman. 1. Christian Church. In full Sexagesima Sunday. The second Sunday before Lent and hence the eighth Sunday before Easter. Formerly also: †the week after this Sunday; the period beginning on this Sunday and ending on the Wednesday after Easter, as in †Sunday in (the) Sexagesima, etc. (cf. Septuagesima n. 2).The name was withdrawn from the Roman Catholic liturgical calendar in 1969, and no longer figures in some modern Anglican liturgies. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Second Sunday before Lent > [noun] sexagesimea1425 Sexagesima1549 1549 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16267) Celebr. Holye Communion f. xxviiv (heading) The sonday called Sexagesima. 1615 E. Grimeston tr. P. d'Avity Estates 1232 As for their fasts, they begin their Lent vpon the Monday of Sexagesima, which is ten daies before our Lent. 1658 in J. Morris Troubles Catholic Forefathers (1872) (modernized text) 1st Ser. i. vi. 314 Upon Sexagesima Sunday before Prime. 1710 C. Wheatley Illustr. Bk. Common Prayer v. §9 The Gospel for Sexagesima-Sunday..admonishes us to be careful in the performance of our duty. 1764 T. Mortimer New Hist. Eng. I. iv. 235/1 This battle, which seemed to render Maud the sole and undisputed mistress of the English crown, was fought on the second of February, a.d. 1141, being Sexagesima Sunday. 1790 W. Aldridge in W. Wills Grace Triumphant p. ix Collect for Sexagesima Sunday. 1841 E. A. Poe Descent into Maelstrom in Cent. of Creepy Stories (1934) 919 Early in the morning of Sexagesima Sunday, it raged with such noise and impetuosity that the very stones of the houses on the coast fell to the ground. 1886 E. Miller Textual Guide 111 The Tuesday after Sexagesima. 1932 C. S. Terry Bach's Orchestra 28 It is an anthem for Sexagesima and illustrates the prescribed topic—God's Word. 1988 A. Picotte in E. C. Deloria Waterlily 229 Her baptism a few weeks later on Sexagesima Sunday,..marked her formal introduction to the Protestant Episcopal religion. 2002 Times (Nexis) 12 Nov. 2 Flicking through the Church calendar, I also see something called Sexagesima... What a potential pew-filler. ΚΠ 1597 T. Blundeville Exercises (ed. 2) i. xxix. f. 37 In those Tables are often vsed two kinds of denominations,..Sexagenæ and..Sexagesimæ,..the denomination Sexagenæ being set ouer any number doth signifie that the vnite of the Integrum is multiplyed by 60. But the denomination Sexagesimæ doth signifie that the vnite of the Integrum is diuided by 60. a1690 S. Jeake Λογιστικηλογία (1696) 233 To turn Sexagenae into Integers, or Decimals into Sexagesimae, multiply continually by 6, every time removing the Separatrix one place. Compounds General attributive (in sense 1), as Sexagesima week, etc. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Second Sunday before Lent > [noun] > week following Sexagesima week1841 1841 R. T. Hampson Medii Ævi Kalendarium II. Gloss. 43 Gervase of Tilbury speaks of Carniprivium as the commencement of Sexagesima week. 1914 R. Michell & N. Forbes tr. Chron. Novgorod 129 Ivan Danilovich came to Novgorod in Sexagesima Week, on Thursday, February 16. 2006 Times Union (Albany, N.Y.) (Nexis) 18 Feb. b8 Sexagesima Service. Where: St. Thomas of Canterbury Anglican Church, 242 Grooms Road. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1549 |
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