† quadrageneObs.rare. [ad.med.L. quadrāgēna, neut. of quadrāgēnī forty each, forty.] An indulgence for forty days. 1664Jer. Taylor Dissuas. Popery ii. §4 You have..purchased your self so many Quadragenes or Lents of pardon; that is, you have bought off the penances of so many times forty days.