The second Sunday before Lent, the next to Shrove-Sunday, so called as being the 60th day before Easter.
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
The second Sunday before Lent; -- so called as being about the sixtieth day before Easter.
1. Sixtieth; pertaining to the number sexty. Sexagenary or sexgesimal arithmetic, is a method of comutation by sexties, as that which is used in dividing minutes into seconds
2. Sexagesimals , or sexagesimal fractions , are those whose denominators proceed in the ratio of sixty; as 1/60, 1/3600, 1/21600. The denominator is sixty, or its multiple. These fractions are called also astonomical fractions, because formerly there were no others used in astronomical calculations.
Pertaining to, or founded on, the number sixty.
A sexagesimal fraction.
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