Lent; so called because it consists of forty days.
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
The forty days of fast preceding Easter; Lent.
Belonging to Lent; used in Lent.
Belonging to Lent; used in Lent; Lenten.
Offerings formerly made to the mother church of a diocese on Mid-Lent Sunday.
Fasting Roget’s Thesaurus §956
N. fasting, xerophagy, famishment, starvation, fast, jour maigre, fast day, banyan day, lent, quadragesima, ramadan, ramazan, spare diet, meager diet, lenten diet, lenten entertainment, soupe maigre, short commons, barmecide feast, short rations
No Bible verses found for "quadragesima".