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Septuagesima Eccl.|ˌsɛptjʊəˈdʒɛsɪmə|
Also β. 4–5 Septuagesme, 5 -gesym, 5–6 -gesime.
[a. L. septuāgēsima (sc. diēs) fem. of septuāgēsimus seventieth, f. septuāgintā seventy; in early use through OF. septuages(i)me.
It has been conjectured that the analogy of the names Quadragesima and Quinquagesima suggested the unmeaning application of Sexagesima and Septuagesima to the two preceding Sundays. Another (less likely) conjecture is that Septuagesima means ‘the seventieth day’ before the octave of Easter. Both conjectures are in Alcuin (8th c.).]
1. In full Septuagesima Sunday: the third Sunday before Lent.
c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. II. 29 Wednesdai Gospel next after Septuagesme Sondai. c1425Process. Nuns Chester (1899) 4 This procession shalbe saide on Sonday & so forth from septuagesime to lenton. 1430in Halliwell Rara Mathem. (1841) 92 Þereby demyd I þat septuagesime son⁓day schal falle ȝe 28 day of..Januare. 1538Prymer in Englyshe C j b, Betwene Septuagesima and Easter thys psalme folowynge is sayde in steade of Te Deum. 1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. iv. xix. 159 b, There be no mariages celebrate, from Septuagesime to the vtas of Easter. 1753Challoner Cath. Chr. Instr. 93 The Penitential Time between Septuagesima and Easter. 1860Neale Comm. Ps. I. 35 The Lauds of Septuagesima Sunday, as said in the Ambrosian Office. a1866― Notes on Div. Off. (1877) 203 The custom of repeating it [sc. Alleluia] frequently on the Saturday before Septuagesima.
†2. The seventy days beginning with the third Sunday before Lent and ending with the Saturday in Easter week. Also transf. Obs.
† Sunday in (the) S. = Dominica in Septuagesima, i.e. Septuagesima Sunday.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VIII. 223 He..lefte flesche [on] Monday and Wednesday, [and] also in Septuagesme [v.r. Septuagesima]. 1398― Barth. De P.R. ix. xxviii. (1495) 363 Septuagesme..stretchyth from the sondaye that hyghte Septuagesima..to the Saturday in Eester weke. Ibid. 364 Whan the Septuagesime of this lyfe is full ended, thenne we shall shyne in whyte in presence of thys lambe. a1400Table of Lessons in Wyclif's Bible IV. 685 The Sonday in Septuages. c1450Mirk's Festial 61 Þys day is called Sonday yn þe Septagesim. 1483Caxton Golden Legend ii. (1503) A viij b/2, In the saterdaye after ester, in whiche septuagesme is cumplete we synge dou[b]le Alleluya. |