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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

[L., fem. of

sexagesimus

sixtieth, fr.

sexaginta

sixty.]

(Eccl.)

The second Sunday before Lent; – so called as being about the sixtieth day before Easter.

Noun.

[L. sexagesimus, sextieth.] The second Sunday before Lent, the next to Shrove-Sunday, so called as being the 60th day before Easter.

See also: sexagesima and Sexagesima

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