Lentn.¹

Brit.

/lɛnt/, U.S.

/lɛnt/

Forms: late Old English Læncte, Middle English Leinte, Middle English Leynte, Middle English–1600s Lente, Middle English– Lent, late Middle English Lenttis (plural), 1500s–1600s Lentt.

Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: Lenten n.

Etymology: < Lenten n., with loss of -n (see discussion at maid n.¹). For forms without -n in related words in other West Germanic languages compare the examples cited at Lenten n. and the discussion at that entry.Loss of the final nasal is earliest attested in late Old English in compound use (see quot. lOE at sense 1); this probably represents an independent development (phonological reduction of the first element before the initial consonant of the second element) not directly related to the early Middle English loss of -n in the simplex, although the existence of such forms in compounds is likely to have influenced or reinforced the later loss. In sense 1 superseded by spring n.¹ 17; compare also use of summer n.¹ 1a to denote all of the warm half of the year, and see further discussion at that entry. With Clean Lent at sense 2a compare Clean Lenten at Lenten n. 2a and the discussion at that entry. The following apparent earlier examples (in sense 1) are better explained as scribal errors for Lenten n.:OE Aldhelm Glosses (Corpus Cambr. 326) in A. S. Napier Old Eng. Glosses (1900) 152 Uere : lencte.lOE Salisbury Psalter lxxiii. 17 Estatem et uer tu plasmasti ea : hærfest & lengte þu geworhtest þa.

1. The season of spring. Now only in compounds (see Compounds 1a, Compounds 2). Cf. Lenten n. 1.Recorded earliest in Lent tide n. at Compounds 2.

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the world > time > period > year > season > [noun] > spring

LenteneOE

LentlOE

warea1300

verec1325

vera1382

vere-time1382

springing timea1387

springinga1398

springa1400

prime tempsa1425

the spring of the year1481

grass1485

springtime1495

prime time1503

sap-time?1523

spring tide1530

(the) spring of the leaf1538

prime1541

prime tide1549

voar1629

vernal season1644

vernal1654

outcome1672

Lent term1691

blossom-time1713

open water1759

rabi1783

budding-timea1807

ware-time1820

growing season1845

lOE Prognostics (Vesp.) in L. S. Chardonnens Anglo-Saxon Prognostics (2007) 495 Hit byð god winter, & windig lænctetid, dryge sumer, god hærfest.

c1300 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Otho) (1978) l. 15287 Þar-after com leinte [c1275 Calig. leinten] and daȝes gonne longy.

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1876) VI. 107 Þe evenes of þe day and of þe nyȝt is ones in þe Lente, and efte in hervest.

2. Chiefly with capital initial.

a. A period of fasting and penitence, beginning on Ash Wednesday and ending shortly before Easter, observed in the Christian Church in commemoration of the time Jesus spent in the wilderness. Now also: a period of fasting or abstinence observed at the same time in secular culture. Formerly also in: † Clean Lent in the same sense (obsolete). Different denominations calculate the period slightly differently, but Lent is typically based on a period of forty days, excluding Sundays.

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society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Lent > [noun]

LentenOE

Lent tidelOE

Lentc1300

Lent timec1400

Quadragesime1483

Lent season?1490

Quadragesimac1560

Great Lent1591

Great Fasta1670

shrift-time1853

c1300 St. Brendan (Laud) l. 352 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 229 Fram þulke tyme forto in leinte no lond huy ne i-seiȝe.

a1325 (c1280) Southern Passion (Pepys 2344) (1927) l. 1733 Þe holy ffeste of Ester comeþ after leynte anon.

c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xiii. l. 350 As wel in lente as oute of lente.

c1400 (?c1308) Adam Davy's 5 Dreams (1878) l. 117 (MED) On Wedenysday in clene leinte.

a1450 in T. Austin Two 15th-cent. Cookery-bks. (1888) 12 An ȝif if it be in lente, lef þe ȝolkys of Eyroun.

1527 Warden's Acct. Morebath, Devon in Western Antiquary (1891) Apr. 150/2 The 2 sonday in clene Lente.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. ccxli The first Sondaie in Lent, Stephyn Gardiner Bishop of Winchester, preached at Paules crosse.

1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet ii. iii. 127 An olde hare hore is verie good meate in Lent .

c1616 R. C. Times' Whistle (1871) iv. 1434 Cocus..hath an intent, To curry favour, to dresse meat in Lent.

1647 Moderate Intelligencer No. 109. 1012 The first Sunday in Lent there was solemn service in the Quirinall.

1723 Dictionarium Sacrum seu Religiosum (ed. 2) 305/1 A Liturgy, called the Pre-Sanctified,..is said all Lent long, except Saturdays and Sundays.

1769 T. Gray Let. 26 Jan. in Corr. (1971) III. 1054 Palgrave keeps Lent at home & wants to be ask'd to break it.

1809 S. T. Coleridge Three Graves iii, in Friend 21 Sept. 92 Ellen always kept her Church All Church-days during Lent.

1861 M. Pattison in Westm. Rev. Apr. 414 Many a cargo of salt cod for Lent..was there.

1926 Press (Canterbury, N.Z.) 20 Mar. 12/2 The demand for preserved fish of all descriptions is good at present and will continue so until after Lent.

1981 R. Davies Rebel Angels (1983) 259 Lent, proper season for self-examination, perhaps for self-mortification, but never, so far as I know, a season for love.

2014 N.Y. Times 6 Jan. (Late ed.) a18/3 I..often gave up drinking for Lent.

b. An instance of this; this period in a particular year (indicated contextually).

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a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1879) VII. 251 But þe nexte Lente [c1410 BL Add. Leynte; L. Quadragesima] þerafter he wente into Normandie.

c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Wife of Bath's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) Prol. l. 550 Myn housbonde was at londoun al that lente I hadde the bettre leyser for to pleye.

1440 J. Capgrave Life St. Norbert (1977) l. 820 In þat same lente..in Passioun weke with hem alle he wente Streit to Premonstrate.

1538 Bible (Coverdale) (Paris) Ep. Ded. sig. ✠ij This last lent I dyd with all humblenesse directe an Epistle vnto the kynges most noble grace.

1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iv. xxxvi. 159 b They doe obserue two Lents..wherof the first beginneth on the fat munday, being ix. dayes before the lent of the Latins.

1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 ii. iv. 351 Whats a ioynt of mutton or twoo in a whole Lent ?

1666 S. Pepys Diary 21 Feb. (1972) VII. 50 My brother John..is to go into Orders this Lent.

1740 T. Gray Let. 19 Mar. in Corr. (1971) I. 144 The diversions of a Florentine Lent.

1784 Westm. Mag. Mar. 124/2 Many of them..follow their business, against all Mayors, Sheriffs, Bailiffs, &c. for forty days before, and forty after, which is worse than two Lents to their hungry creditors.

1842 Ld. Tennyson St. Simeon Stylites in Poems (new ed.) II. 61 If it may be, fast Whole Lents, and pray.

1921 Lutheran League Rev. Feb. 6/2 Make this Lent a time of great spiritual refreshing before the Lord.

2001 Portuguese Stud. 17 27 He later told the Inquisition that he had said mass in Rouen at Lent 1546.

†c. figurative. A period resembling Lent in being a time of abstinence, suffering, or penitence. Obsolete.

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the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > asceticism > [noun] > mortifying the flesh, etc. > period of mortification

Lent1555

1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde iii. ii. f. 99 They haue obserued a longer and sharper lent [L. quadragesimam] then euer yowre holinesse inioyned.

1598 R. Tofte Alba iii. sig. G3^v The Carnouale of my sweet Love is past, Now comes the Lent of my long Hate at last.

1635 Bp. J. Hall Char. of Man 6 If in the former, there be a sad Lent of mortification, there is in the latter, a chearfull Easter of our raising and exaltation.

1660 J. Milton Readie Way Free Commonw. (ed. 2) 5 Before so long a Lent of Servitude, they may permitt us a little Shroving-time first, wherin to speak freely.

1726 J. Swift Cadenus & Vanessa 8 There live with daggl'd Mermaids pent, And keep on Fish perpetual Lent.

1789 P. Withers Hist. Royal Malady iii. 40 A youth who had kept a Lent of Love.

1842 D. Boucicault Irish Heiress v. 93 The Lent of your love shall not be long. But stay!

1908 E. C. Stedman Poems 418 Alack! a guest unbidden, Howe'er our feast be hidden, Doth enter with the feaster And make a Lent of Easter!

3. An indulgence (indulgence n. 3a) which remits as much sin as would forty days of penance. Chiefly in lent of pardon (formerly also †penance). Now historical.

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the world > time > period > a day or twenty-four hours > [noun] > period of specific number of days

Lentc1450

quarantine1617

quarantain1638

soixantine1722

parson's week1790

nundine1860

trinundine1891

pentad1906

society > faith > worship > liturgical year > fast > [noun] > period of > of 40 days

lent of pardon (formerly also penance)c1450

carenec1503

quadragesimal1565

society > faith > worship > sacrament > confession > penance > remission of penance > [noun] > indulgentiary > forty days

Lentenc1390

lent of pardon (formerly also penance)c1450

carenec1503

quadragene1617

c1450 in Mod. Philol. (1923) 20 411 (MED) Seint Sylvester hath grauntid to alle that praye devoutely at the auter of seint peter xxviii yeres and as many lentis of penauncis inioyned and relese of the thryd part of alle synnes.

1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende f. clviii^v/2 There is seuen yere and seuen lentys of pardon.

c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. lv/1 Aboue this is grauntyd xxviij C. yere of pardon, and the merytis of as many lentis or karyns.

1586 Treat. against Def. of Censure Bks. W. Charke & M. Hanmer ii. 475 The pardons are false, that promise to all men, that goe on such voyage, or pilgrimage,..full remission à pœna & culpa, or so manie yeares or lents of pardon.

1664 Bp. J. Taylor Disswasive from Popery ii. iv. 93 You have with much labour, and some charge, purchased to your self so many Quadragenes or Lents of pardon.

1842 C. Elliott Delineation Rom. Catholicism I. ii. xiii. 423 You have purchased so many quadragenes, or lents of pardon.

2007 R. Hutchinson Thomas Cromwell (2009) iv. 82 The Pope..generously offered seven years and seven Lents of pardon to all those who said three paternosters..on that day.

4. Any period of fasting or abstinence prescribed by a religion.

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society > faith > worship > liturgical year > fast > [noun] > period of

fastentideOE

fasta1400

fasten timea1400

Lenten?c1430

Lent1591

1591 G. Fletcher Of Russe Common Wealth xxv. f. 105^v They [sc. Orthodox Russians] haue foure great Fastes, or Lentes euery yeere.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage v. xvi. 455 They [sc. Muslims of Java] observe their houres, and two Fasts, or Lents.

1650 R. Withers tr. O. Bon Descr. Grand Signor's Seraglio x. 151 The Ramazan being ended, which is their day-lent.

1718 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. May (1965) I. 410 Their Lents..are at least 7 months in every year.

1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1788) IV. xlvii. 604 Five annual lents, during which both the clergy and laity [of the Nestorians] abstain..even from the taste of wine.

1809 R. Adam Relig. World Displayed 360 The Russians, with their mother church, have four lents annually.

1875 Monthly Packet Apr. 340 Several Lents used formerly to be observed—namely, the Lent of Easter, the Lent of Pentecost, and the Lent of Advent.

1995 Vanity Fair Oct. 122/1 Her freedom had also coincided with Wa-zo, the advent of Buddhist Lent.

5. In plural. At Cambridge University: boat races which take place in the Lent term.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > boat racing or race > [noun] > types of rowing race

torpid1838

bumping race1842

row-over1866

sculls1878

May1879

Lents1886

fours1891

getting-on race1892

row-off1893

re-row1901

tub-race1903

bumper1906

bump1923

bumps race1927

head race1953

1886 Cambr. Rev. 3 Feb. 183/1 With R. Armitage to coach, and C. B. Gedge to stroke them, we hope they will more than keep their place in the Lents.

1893 Westm. Gaz. 27 Feb. 11/2 In the Lents' on Saturday both Jesus and Trinity Hall pursued their victorious career.

1911 Encycl. Sport & Games (new ed.) IV. 75/2 He may row in the Lents in his second year.

1989 Daily Tel. 4 Mar. 8/4 In the Cambridge Lents..Downing..were bumped yesterday by Emmanuel.

2000 J. Durack et al. Bumps ii. 106 Magdalene spent a substantial proportion of its time in the lower regions of the Second Divisions in both the Lents and Mays.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

a. In sense 1 (in later use sometimes difficult to distinguish from sense 2a). [Compare earlier parallels at Lenten n.]

lent corn n. now historical

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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > crop or crops > [noun] > grain crop > lenten crop

Lenten corna1500

lent corn?1523

Lenten grain1669

lent grain1732

lent crop1741

?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. li^v Vnto the tyme that thou haue sowen agayne thy wynter corne & thy lent corne.

1741 A. Blackwell New Method improving Cold, Wet, & Barren Lands vi. 35 If it is intended for Wheat it should be laid on about Michaelmas, before the last ploughing; but for Lent Corn, in the Spring.

1889 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. (ed. 2) Lent-corn, barley and oats; also beans, if sown in the spring.

1987 Agric. Hist. Rev. 35 153/2 The sheep were folded at night on that part of the arable land which was being prepared for ‘lent corn’, or spring barley.

lent crop n. [compare earlier spring crop n. at spring n.¹ Compounds 3e(a)] now historical

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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > crop or crops > [noun] > grain crop > lenten crop

Lenten corna1500

lent corn?1523

Lenten grain1669

lent grain1732

lent crop1741

1741 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman May iii. 44 The Lent Crop of Pease or Oats.

1855 J. C. Morton Cycl. Agric. II. (Gloss.) 721/2 Breach or Lent Crops (East Eng. &c.), all spring crops.

1984 B. M. Short in J. Thirsk Agrarian Hist. Eng. & Wales V. i. viii. 260 He laid down..that in the course of the last three years of the term of a lease a Lent crop of no more than twelve acres of oats should be sown.

† lent grain n. Obsolete

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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > crop or crops > [noun] > grain crop > lenten crop

Lenten corna1500

lent corn?1523

Lenten grain1669

lent grain1732

lent crop1741

1732 W. Ellis Pract. Farmer 96 Red or Yellow Clay..is commonly called the best Wheat-Land,..but Lent-Grain and most other Grass-Seeds do not prosper to any great account.

1744 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman Mar. vi. 55 The two first [sc. Barley and Pease] as well as Oats, etc. are called Lent-Grains.

1896 Berrow's Worcester Jrnl. 4 Apr. 7/2 It is high time the Lent grain was sown.

† Lent seed n. Obsolete

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c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. xiii. l. 190 Lynne-seed and lik-seed and lente-seedes alle.

1779 St. James's Chron. 9 Jan. (advt.) To be Lett, and entered upon for the next Lent Seed and Wheat Crop, Two Farms near Goldalming.

1846 Anglo Amer. 2 May 46/1 The ground has also been ploughed, harrowed, sown with grass and lent seeds, which are now coming up thickly and strongly.

b. In sense 2a.

Lent diet n. now historical

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1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 735/1 He was at charge to haue (as your grace knoweth) the lent diet daily prepared.

1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet ii. 286 In a Lent Diet People commonly fall away.

2006 T. Stuart Bloodless Revol. (2007) xii. 152 For most people, who could not afford fish or substitutes such as almond milk, the Lent diet was a meagre affair.

Lent fast n.

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1534 G. Joye Subuersion Moris False Found. f. xxvij He sayde the spirit shal testifye of me..and not of my mother nether yet of lent faste, halowinge of vestementis &c. and crepinge to the crosse.

1651 C. Cartwright Certamen Religiosum ii. 58 And the like also for the different manner of observing the Lent-fast in respect of the time.

1837 C. S. Henry Compend. Christian Antiq. vii. i. 269 The passion week, which was a part of the Lent fast.

2014 Daily Mirror (National ed.) (Nexis) 16 Apr. (Opinion section) 27 Today marks the end of the Lent fast kept by the Rev Keith Hebden.

† Lent provision n. Obsolete

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the world > food and drink > food > food otherwise characterized > [noun] > Lenten or fast-day food

Lent meata1200

Lenten stuffa1513

Jack-a-Lent1548

Lent stuff1573

Lent provision1615

fast fooda1627

Friday fare1633

1615 S. John Essayes & Characters 243 You may easilie driue him to mistake brown paper..for his Fathers hopp bagges and Lent prouision.

1664 S. Pepys Diary 10 Feb. (1971) V. 44 My wife..being with my aunt Wight today to buy Lent provisions.

1833 W. Smith New Surv. & Hist. Cities London & Westm. xi. 410 She demanded in the King's name, a sufficient quantity of Lent provisions, from the Londoners, for the sustenance of the soldiery.

Lent sermon n.

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1553 J. Bale Vocacyon f. 32 About thre yeares ago, he made interpellacyon to the Kynge in hys lente sermon, for his daughter Irelande.

a1695 A. Wood Surv. Antiq. City of Oxf. (1899) III. xxxviii. 178 And therin doth the Vicechancellour sit..to heare the Lent-sermons preached.

1831 J. Scott Hist. Church Christ III. xxii. 274 In such esteem was he held, that the council ordered that he should preach the lent sermons.

2016 London Evening Standard (Nexis) 16 Feb. The best Lent sermon I have heard concerned the Pharisee and the tax collector.

Lent time n.

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society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Lent > [noun]

LentenOE

Lent tidelOE

Lentc1300

Lent timec1400

Quadragesime1483

Lent season?1490

Quadragesimac1560

Great Lent1591

Great Fasta1670

shrift-time1853

c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xix. l. 382 (MED) Comeþ..ȝe cristene, and dyneth, Þat han laboured..al þis lente tyme.

1574 J. Studley tr. J. Bale Pageant of Popes f. 73 On a certaine day of stations in the Lent time, y^e Popes should say masse at Rome in the Pallayce of the holy Crosse.

1721 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius No. 45 (single sheet) (verso)/2 These disputations..are so ordered, that they last all Lent-time.

1859 Standard (London) 13 Aug. 4/5 Catch herrings on the Irish coast.., and then send them to Ireland in Lent time to sell.

2015 Daily News (Sri Lanka) (Nexis) 30 Mar. During this lent time we do read in the Bible that Jesus had to stand alone.

C2.

Lent cloth n. now chiefly historical a cloth, typically purple in colour, hung in front of or over a religious image or object in Lent; cf. Lenten cloth n. at Lenten n. and adj. Compounds.

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society > faith > artefacts > cloths, carpets, cushions > cloth (general) > curtain or hanging cloth > [noun] > as a covering > to cover images during Lent

Lent cloth1429

Lenten cloth1429

1429 in H. E. Salter Churchwardens' Accts. St. Michael's Oxf. (1933) 21 For a Lent cloth i-called the veylle iis. iiiid.

1552 in W. Page Inventories Church Goods York, Durham & Northumberland (1897) 44 One great clothe of canves cauled Lente clothe.

1806 Gentleman's Mag. June 526 The materials and colour of the Lent Cloths seem to have been objects of no very great concern.

1901 Archaeol. Jrnl. 2nd Ser. 8 154 The Lent cloth for the crucifix was painted with the Passion.

2001 E. Duffy Voices Morebath (2003) vi. 122 Sometime before the end of September 1548 she sold off the Lent cloth.

Lent lily n. (and adj.) often literary and poetic the wild daffodil, Narcissus pseudonarcissus, esp. of the variety native to England and Wales; also as adj. with reference to the yellow colour of this flower. [Compare earlier Lent rose n. (a) and Lide-lily n. at Lide n. Compounds 2.]

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > daffodil and allied flowers > daffodil

daffodilly1538

daffadowndilly1573

yellow crow-bells1578

daffodil1592

Lide-flower1609

Lide-lily1609

trumpet1705

daffy1777

Lent rose1796

chalice-flower1824

Lent lilya1825

Lenten lily1874

dilly1878

Golden Spur1886

trumpet daffodil1895

King Alfred1899

daff1915

bell-rose-

a1825 T. F. Forster Pocket Encycl. Nat. Phenomena (1827) ii. 105 Lent Lily or Double early Daffodil Narcissus Pseudonarcissus plenus.

1872 Ld. Tennyson Gareth & Lynette 57 A silk pavilion,..all Lent-lily in hue.

1879 S. Hibberd Familiar Garden Flowers I. 155 As the trumpet daffodils are called ‘Lent lilies’, so the spring flowering hellebores are called ‘Lent roses’.

1917 D. H. Lawrence Look! We have come Through! 158 The chill lent lilies..slow-blooded, icy-fleshed, portentous.

2016 Kent & Sussex Courier (Nexis) 31 Aug. (Features section) 6 If you have longer grass and a wildflower meadow-style planting area, try planting snakeshead fritillaries, and native Lent lilies.

† Lent meat n. [compare meat n. 1a] Obsolete (an item of) food suitable for eating during Lent or a similar period of fasting.

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the world > food and drink > food > food otherwise characterized > [noun] > Lenten or fast-day food

Lent meata1200

Lenten stuffa1513

Jack-a-Lent1548

Lent stuff1573

Lent provision1615

fast fooda1627

Friday fare1633

a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 67 (MED) Ete nu leinte mete, and enes o dai.

1483 W. Caxton in tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende f. ccclxxv^v/1 In aduent he ete neuer but lente mete.

1691 A. Gavin Observ. Journy to Naples 278 He added this Corollary, that upon the same account, Almond-milk was a good and lawful Lent Meat.

Lent rose n. †(a) chiefly English regional a daffodil (cf. Lent lily n.), esp. one with a double flower (obsolete); (b) a hellebore, Helleborus orientalis; = Lenten rose n. at Lenten n. and adj. Compounds.

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daffodilly1538

daffadowndilly1573

yellow crow-bells1578

daffodil1592

Lide-flower1609

Lide-lily1609

trumpet1705

daffy1777

Lent rose1796

chalice-flower1824

Lent lilya1825

Lenten lily1874

dilly1878

Golden Spur1886

trumpet daffodil1895

King Alfred1899

daff1915

bell-rose-

1796 W. Marshall Provincialisms W. Devonshire in Rural Econ. W. Eng. I. 328 Lent rose.., the Narcissus, or Daffodil.

1837 J. F. Palmer Gloss. in M. Palmer Dialogue Devonshire Dial. Butter-and-eggs, a species of daffodil or lent rose, Narcissus biflorus of Linnæus.

1879 S. Hibberd Familiar Garden Flowers I. 156 The conspicuous yellow stamens, which contribute so much to the beauty of the white-flowered Christmas rose, are distinct and welcome features of these new varieties of Lent roses.

1908 A. H. Church Types Floral Mechanism 118 (note) The term Lent Lily is of interest from its association with monastery gardens of the pre-Reformation era: large double forms are sometimes termed Lent-Roses.

1993 Washington Post (Nexis) 28 Jan. t16 Lent rose has small clusters of nodding bells about two inches across, with colors such as lime green, pink, dark purple and maroon, many of them speckled.

Lent season n. †(a) the season of spring (obsolete); (b) the season of Lent (sense 2a).

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society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Lent > [noun]

LentenOE

Lent tidelOE

Lentc1300

Lent timec1400

Quadragesime1483

Lent season?1490

Quadragesimac1560

Great Lent1591

Great Fasta1670

shrift-time1853

?1490 tr. Gouernayle of Helthe sig. Aiij^v It ys to wete that in lente season that is to saye in veer & in the begynnyng of somer, [etc.].

1574 J. Baret Aluearie L 284 Lent season, Quadragesima.

1722 S. Whatley tr. F. Micanzio Life of Father Paul p. xxxi, in tr. P. Sarpi Rights of Sovereigns & Subj. A priest..who in the preceding Lent season used to go every morning to the convent of Servi.

1889 Musical Times Nov. 649/2 Handel closed the Lent season of 1750 on April 11, and in June began the composition of the ‘Choice of Hercules’.

2002 Pennsylvania Mag. Hist. & Biogr. 126 421 Christian musicians performed at Jewish festivals, even during the Christian Lent season.

† lent-sown adj. Obsolete rare sown in the spring; cf. spring sown at spring n.¹ Compounds 3d.

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1795 Gentleman's Mag. July 539/2 The dryness of April and May was against the vegetation of the Lent-sown seed.

1844 Farmer's Mag. Aug. 184/2 The favourable weather experienced during the latter part of June..has worked a great improvement in the crops of Lent-sown corn.

† Lent stuff n. Obsolete rare (a) food suitable for eating during Lent; (b) cloth hung in front of or over a religious image or object in Lent. [Compare earlier Lenten stuff n. at Lenten n. and adj. Compounds.]

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the world > food and drink > food > food otherwise characterized > [noun] > Lenten or fast-day food

Lent meata1200

Lenten stuffa1513

Jack-a-Lent1548

Lent stuff1573

Lent provision1615

fast fooda1627

Friday fare1633

1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 36 To costeman ride, lent stuffe to prouide.

1901 Norfolk Archaeol. 14 171 The colour of the Lent stuff is not stated; it was probably, as usual, white, like the vestments.

Lent term n. (at Cambridge University and formerly also at Oxford) the term in which Lent falls.

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the world > time > period > year > season > [noun] > spring

LenteneOE

LentlOE

warea1300

verec1325

vera1382

vere-time1382

springing timea1387

springinga1398

springa1400

prime tempsa1425

the spring of the year1481

grass1485

springtime1495

prime time1503

sap-time?1523

spring tide1530

(the) spring of the leaf1538

prime1541

prime tide1549

voar1629

vernal season1644

vernal1654

outcome1672

Lent term1691

blossom-time1713

open water1759

rabi1783

budding-timea1807

ware-time1820

growing season1845

1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses I. 294 Gabriel Powell..entred into Jesus coll. in Lent term 1592.

1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. iv. 68 We're only half through Lent term.

2008 Limnol. & Oceanogr. 53 1622/1 On sabbatical in Cambridge during Lent Term 2005.

Lent tide n. †(a) the season of spring (obsolete); (b) the season of Lent (sense 2a).

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society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Lent > [noun]

LentenOE

Lent tidelOE

Lentc1300

Lent timec1400

Quadragesime1483

Lent season?1490

Quadragesimac1560

Great Lent1591

Great Fasta1670

shrift-time1853

lOE Prognostics (Vesp.) in L. S. Chardonnens Anglo-Saxon Prognostics (2007) 495 Hit byð god winter, & windig lænctetid, dryge sumer, god hærfest.

c1590 (a1572) J. Knox Hist. Reformation Scotl. (Glasgow Gen 1123) in Wks. (1846) I. 46 Whatsoever he had taucht in all his sermons before, the hole Lent-tyde preceiding.

1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 71 Euery yeare about Lent tide, the sherifes of Norwich bake certayne herring pies..and send them as a homage.

1837 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 41 751/1 This was seen and heard from the time he (Henry) came thither all the Lent-tide onward to Easter.

1865 Macmillan's Mag. Sept. 415/1 I once saw this him-her going into church during Lent-tide for confession.

1987 T. J. Saxby Quest for New Jerusalem 30 Thus Labadie's Lent-tide sermons at Montreuil drew criticism.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	lent
释义	Lentn.¹ Brit. /lɛnt/, U.S. /lɛnt/ Forms: late Old English Læncte, Middle English Leinte, Middle English Leynte, Middle English–1600s Lente, Middle English– Lent, late Middle English Lenttis (plural), 1500s–1600s Lentt. Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: Lenten n. Etymology: < Lenten n., with loss of -n (see discussion at maid n.¹). For forms without -n in related words in other West Germanic languages compare the examples cited at Lenten n. and the discussion at that entry.Loss of the final nasal is earliest attested in late Old English in compound use (see quot. lOE at sense 1); this probably represents an independent development (phonological reduction of the first element before the initial consonant of the second element) not directly related to the early Middle English loss of -n in the simplex, although the existence of such forms in compounds is likely to have influenced or reinforced the later loss. In sense 1 superseded by spring n.¹ 17; compare also use of summer n.¹ 1a to denote all of the warm half of the year, and see further discussion at that entry. With Clean Lent at sense 2a compare Clean Lenten at Lenten n. 2a and the discussion at that entry. The following apparent earlier examples (in sense 1) are better explained as scribal errors for Lenten n.:OE Aldhelm Glosses (Corpus Cambr. 326) in A. S. Napier Old Eng. Glosses (1900) 152 Uere : lencte.lOE Salisbury Psalter lxxiii. 17 Estatem et uer tu plasmasti ea : hærfest & lengte þu geworhtest þa. 1. The season of spring. Now only in compounds (see Compounds 1a, Compounds 2). Cf. Lenten n. 1.Recorded earliest in Lent tide n. at Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > year > season > [noun] > spring LenteneOE LentlOE warea1300 verec1325 vera1382 vere-time1382 springing timea1387 springinga1398 springa1400 prime tempsa1425 the spring of the year1481 grass1485 springtime1495 prime time1503 sap-time?1523 spring tide1530 (the) spring of the leaf1538 prime1541 prime tide1549 voar1629 vernal season1644 vernal1654 outcome1672 Lent term1691 blossom-time1713 open water1759 rabi1783 budding-timea1807 ware-time1820 growing season1845 lOE Prognostics (Vesp.) in L. S. Chardonnens Anglo-Saxon Prognostics (2007) 495 Hit byð god winter, & windig lænctetid, dryge sumer, god hærfest. c1300 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Otho) (1978) l. 15287 Þar-after com leinte [c1275 Calig. leinten] and daȝes gonne longy. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1876) VI. 107 Þe evenes of þe day and of þe nyȝt is ones in þe Lente, and efte in hervest. 2. Chiefly with capital initial. a. A period of fasting and penitence, beginning on Ash Wednesday and ending shortly before Easter, observed in the Christian Church in commemoration of the time Jesus spent in the wilderness. Now also: a period of fasting or abstinence observed at the same time in secular culture. Formerly also in: † Clean Lent in the same sense (obsolete). Different denominations calculate the period slightly differently, but Lent is typically based on a period of forty days, excluding Sundays. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Lent > [noun] LentenOE Lent tidelOE Lentc1300 Lent timec1400 Quadragesime1483 Lent season?1490 Quadragesimac1560 Great Lent1591 Great Fasta1670 shrift-time1853 c1300 St. Brendan (Laud) l. 352 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 229 Fram þulke tyme forto in leinte no lond huy ne i-seiȝe. a1325 (c1280) Southern Passion (Pepys 2344) (1927) l. 1733 Þe holy ffeste of Ester comeþ after leynte anon. c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xiii. l. 350 As wel in lente as oute of lente. c1400 (?c1308) Adam Davy's 5 Dreams (1878) l. 117 (MED) On Wedenysday in clene leinte. a1450 in T. Austin Two 15th-cent. Cookery-bks. (1888) 12 An ȝif if it be in lente, lef þe ȝolkys of Eyroun. 1527 Warden's Acct. Morebath, Devon in Western Antiquary (1891) Apr. 150/2 The 2 sonday in clene Lente. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. ccxli The first Sondaie in Lent, Stephyn Gardiner Bishop of Winchester, preached at Paules crosse. 1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet ii. iii. 127 An olde hare hore is verie good meate in Lent . View more context for this quotation c1616 R. C. Times' Whistle (1871) iv. 1434 Cocus..hath an intent, To curry favour, to dresse meat in Lent. 1647 Moderate Intelligencer No. 109. 1012 The first Sunday in Lent there was solemn service in the Quirinall. 1723 Dictionarium Sacrum seu Religiosum (ed. 2) 305/1 A Liturgy, called the Pre-Sanctified,..is said all Lent long, except Saturdays and Sundays. 1769 T. Gray Let. 26 Jan. in Corr. (1971) III. 1054 Palgrave keeps Lent at home & wants to be ask'd to break it. 1809 S. T. Coleridge Three Graves iii, in Friend 21 Sept. 92 Ellen always kept her Church All Church-days during Lent. 1861 M. Pattison in Westm. Rev. Apr. 414 Many a cargo of salt cod for Lent..was there. 1926 Press (Canterbury, N.Z.) 20 Mar. 12/2 The demand for preserved fish of all descriptions is good at present and will continue so until after Lent. 1981 R. Davies Rebel Angels (1983) 259 Lent, proper season for self-examination, perhaps for self-mortification, but never, so far as I know, a season for love. 2014 N.Y. Times 6 Jan. (Late ed.) a18/3 I..often gave up drinking for Lent. b. An instance of this; this period in a particular year (indicated contextually). ΚΠ a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1879) VII. 251 But þe nexte Lente [c1410 BL Add. Leynte; L. Quadragesima] þerafter he wente into Normandie. c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Wife of Bath's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) Prol. l. 550 Myn housbonde was at londoun al that lente I hadde the bettre leyser for to pleye. 1440 J. Capgrave Life St. Norbert (1977) l. 820 In þat same lente..in Passioun weke with hem alle he wente Streit to Premonstrate. 1538 Bible (Coverdale) (Paris) Ep. Ded. sig. ✠ij This last lent I dyd with all humblenesse directe an Epistle vnto the kynges most noble grace. 1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iv. xxxvi. 159 b They doe obserue two Lents..wherof the first beginneth on the fat munday, being ix. dayes before the lent of the Latins. 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 ii. iv. 351 Whats a ioynt of mutton or twoo in a whole Lent ? View more context for this quotation 1666 S. Pepys Diary 21 Feb. (1972) VII. 50 My brother John..is to go into Orders this Lent. 1740 T. Gray Let. 19 Mar. in Corr. (1971) I. 144 The diversions of a Florentine Lent. 1784 Westm. Mag. Mar. 124/2 Many of them..follow their business, against all Mayors, Sheriffs, Bailiffs, &c. for forty days before, and forty after, which is worse than two Lents to their hungry creditors. 1842 Ld. Tennyson St. Simeon Stylites in Poems (new ed.) II. 61 If it may be, fast Whole Lents, and pray. 1921 Lutheran League Rev. Feb. 6/2 Make this Lent a time of great spiritual refreshing before the Lord. 2001 Portuguese Stud. 17 27 He later told the Inquisition that he had said mass in Rouen at Lent 1546. †c. figurative. A period resembling Lent in being a time of abstinence, suffering, or penitence. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > asceticism > [noun] > mortifying the flesh, etc. > period of mortification Lent1555 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde iii. ii. f. 99 They haue obserued a longer and sharper lent [L. quadragesimam] then euer yowre holinesse inioyned. 1598 R. Tofte Alba iii. sig. G3^v The Carnouale of my sweet Love is past, Now comes the Lent of my long Hate at last. 1635 Bp. J. Hall Char. of Man 6 If in the former, there be a sad Lent of mortification, there is in the latter, a chearfull Easter of our raising and exaltation. 1660 J. Milton Readie Way Free Commonw. (ed. 2) 5 Before so long a Lent of Servitude, they may permitt us a little Shroving-time first, wherin to speak freely. 1726 J. Swift Cadenus & Vanessa 8 There live with daggl'd Mermaids pent, And keep on Fish perpetual Lent. 1789 P. Withers Hist. Royal Malady iii. 40 A youth who had kept a Lent of Love. 1842 D. Boucicault Irish Heiress v. 93 The Lent of your love shall not be long. But stay! 1908 E. C. Stedman Poems 418 Alack! a guest unbidden, Howe'er our feast be hidden, Doth enter with the feaster And make a Lent of Easter! 3. An indulgence (indulgence n. 3a) which remits as much sin as would forty days of penance. Chiefly in lent of pardon (formerly also †penance). Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > a day or twenty-four hours > [noun] > period of specific number of days Lentc1450 quarantine1617 quarantain1638 soixantine1722 parson's week1790 nundine1860 trinundine1891 pentad1906 society > faith > worship > liturgical year > fast > [noun] > period of > of 40 days lent of pardon (formerly also penance)c1450 carenec1503 quadragesimal1565 society > faith > worship > sacrament > confession > penance > remission of penance > [noun] > indulgentiary > forty days Lentenc1390 lent of pardon (formerly also penance)c1450 carenec1503 quadragene1617 c1450 in Mod. Philol. (1923) 20 411 (MED) Seint Sylvester hath grauntid to alle that praye devoutely at the auter of seint peter xxviii yeres and as many lentis of penauncis inioyned and relese of the thryd part of alle synnes. 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende f. clviii^v/2 There is seuen yere and seuen lentys of pardon. c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. lv/1 Aboue this is grauntyd xxviij C. yere of pardon, and the merytis of as many lentis or karyns. 1586 Treat. against Def. of Censure Bks. W. Charke & M. Hanmer ii. 475 The pardons are false, that promise to all men, that goe on such voyage, or pilgrimage,..full remission à pœna & culpa, or so manie yeares or lents of pardon. 1664 Bp. J. Taylor Disswasive from Popery ii. iv. 93 You have with much labour, and some charge, purchased to your self so many Quadragenes or Lents of pardon. 1842 C. Elliott Delineation Rom. Catholicism I. ii. xiii. 423 You have purchased so many quadragenes, or lents of pardon. 2007 R. Hutchinson Thomas Cromwell (2009) iv. 82 The Pope..generously offered seven years and seven Lents of pardon to all those who said three paternosters..on that day. 4. Any period of fasting or abstinence prescribed by a religion. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > fast > [noun] > period of fastentideOE fasta1400 fasten timea1400 Lenten?c1430 Lent1591 1591 G. Fletcher Of Russe Common Wealth xxv. f. 105^v They [sc. Orthodox Russians] haue foure great Fastes, or Lentes euery yeere. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage v. xvi. 455 They [sc. Muslims of Java] observe their houres, and two Fasts, or Lents. 1650 R. Withers tr. O. Bon Descr. Grand Signor's Seraglio x. 151 The Ramazan being ended, which is their day-lent. 1718 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. May (1965) I. 410 Their Lents..are at least 7 months in every year. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1788) IV. xlvii. 604 Five annual lents, during which both the clergy and laity [of the Nestorians] abstain..even from the taste of wine. 1809 R. Adam Relig. World Displayed 360 The Russians, with their mother church, have four lents annually. 1875 Monthly Packet Apr. 340 Several Lents used formerly to be observed—namely, the Lent of Easter, the Lent of Pentecost, and the Lent of Advent. 1995 Vanity Fair Oct. 122/1 Her freedom had also coincided with Wa-zo, the advent of Buddhist Lent. 5. In plural. At Cambridge University: boat races which take place in the Lent term. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > boat racing or race > [noun] > types of rowing race torpid1838 bumping race1842 row-over1866 sculls1878 May1879 Lents1886 fours1891 getting-on race1892 row-off1893 re-row1901 tub-race1903 bumper1906 bump1923 bumps race1927 head race1953 1886 Cambr. Rev. 3 Feb. 183/1 With R. Armitage to coach, and C. B. Gedge to stroke them, we hope they will more than keep their place in the Lents. 1893 Westm. Gaz. 27 Feb. 11/2 In the Lents' on Saturday both Jesus and Trinity Hall pursued their victorious career. 1911 Encycl. Sport & Games (new ed.) IV. 75/2 He may row in the Lents in his second year. 1989 Daily Tel. 4 Mar. 8/4 In the Cambridge Lents..Downing..were bumped yesterday by Emmanuel. 2000 J. Durack et al. Bumps ii. 106 Magdalene spent a substantial proportion of its time in the lower regions of the Second Divisions in both the Lents and Mays. Compounds C1. General attributive. a. In sense 1 (in later use sometimes difficult to distinguish from sense 2a). [Compare earlier parallels at Lenten n.] lent corn n. now historical ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > crop or crops > [noun] > grain crop > lenten crop Lenten corna1500 lent corn?1523 Lenten grain1669 lent grain1732 lent crop1741 ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. li^v Vnto the tyme that thou haue sowen agayne thy wynter corne & thy lent corne. 1741 A. Blackwell New Method improving Cold, Wet, & Barren Lands vi. 35 If it is intended for Wheat it should be laid on about Michaelmas, before the last ploughing; but for Lent Corn, in the Spring. 1889 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. (ed. 2) Lent-corn, barley and oats; also beans, if sown in the spring. 1987 Agric. Hist. Rev. 35 153/2 The sheep were folded at night on that part of the arable land which was being prepared for ‘lent corn’, or spring barley. lent crop n. [compare earlier spring crop n. at spring n.¹ Compounds 3e(a)] now historical ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > crop or crops > [noun] > grain crop > lenten crop Lenten corna1500 lent corn?1523 Lenten grain1669 lent grain1732 lent crop1741 1741 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman May iii. 44 The Lent Crop of Pease or Oats. 1855 J. C. Morton Cycl. Agric. II. (Gloss.) 721/2 Breach or Lent Crops (East Eng. &c.), all spring crops. 1984 B. M. Short in J. Thirsk Agrarian Hist. Eng. & Wales V. i. viii. 260 He laid down..that in the course of the last three years of the term of a lease a Lent crop of no more than twelve acres of oats should be sown. † lent grain n. Obsolete ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > crop or crops > [noun] > grain crop > lenten crop Lenten corna1500 lent corn?1523 Lenten grain1669 lent grain1732 lent crop1741 1732 W. Ellis Pract. Farmer 96 Red or Yellow Clay..is commonly called the best Wheat-Land,..but Lent-Grain and most other Grass-Seeds do not prosper to any great account. 1744 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman Mar. vi. 55 The two first [sc. Barley and Pease] as well as Oats, etc. are called Lent-Grains. 1896 Berrow's Worcester Jrnl. 4 Apr. 7/2 It is high time the Lent grain was sown. † Lent seed n. Obsolete ΚΠ c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. xiii. l. 190 Lynne-seed and lik-seed and lente-seedes alle. 1779 St. James's Chron. 9 Jan. (advt.) To be Lett, and entered upon for the next Lent Seed and Wheat Crop, Two Farms near Goldalming. 1846 Anglo Amer. 2 May 46/1 The ground has also been ploughed, harrowed, sown with grass and lent seeds, which are now coming up thickly and strongly. b. In sense 2a. Lent diet n. now historical ΚΠ 1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 735/1 He was at charge to haue (as your grace knoweth) the lent diet daily prepared. 1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet ii. 286 In a Lent Diet People commonly fall away. 2006 T. Stuart Bloodless Revol. (2007) xii. 152 For most people, who could not afford fish or substitutes such as almond milk, the Lent diet was a meagre affair. Lent fast n. ΚΠ 1534 G. Joye Subuersion Moris False Found. f. xxvij He sayde the spirit shal testifye of me..and not of my mother nether yet of lent faste, halowinge of vestementis &c. and crepinge to the crosse. 1651 C. Cartwright Certamen Religiosum ii. 58 And the like also for the different manner of observing the Lent-fast in respect of the time. 1837 C. S. Henry Compend. Christian Antiq. vii. i. 269 The passion week, which was a part of the Lent fast. 2014 Daily Mirror (National ed.) (Nexis) 16 Apr. (Opinion section) 27 Today marks the end of the Lent fast kept by the Rev Keith Hebden. † Lent provision n. Obsolete ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food otherwise characterized > [noun] > Lenten or fast-day food Lent meata1200 Lenten stuffa1513 Jack-a-Lent1548 Lent stuff1573 Lent provision1615 fast fooda1627 Friday fare1633 1615 S. John Essayes & Characters 243 You may easilie driue him to mistake brown paper..for his Fathers hopp bagges and Lent prouision. 1664 S. Pepys Diary 10 Feb. (1971) V. 44 My wife..being with my aunt Wight today to buy Lent provisions. 1833 W. Smith New Surv. & Hist. Cities London & Westm. xi. 410 She demanded in the King's name, a sufficient quantity of Lent provisions, from the Londoners, for the sustenance of the soldiery. Lent sermon n. ΚΠ 1553 J. Bale Vocacyon f. 32 About thre yeares ago, he made interpellacyon to the Kynge in hys lente sermon, for his daughter Irelande. a1695 A. Wood Surv. Antiq. City of Oxf. (1899) III. xxxviii. 178 And therin doth the Vicechancellour sit..to heare the Lent-sermons preached. 1831 J. Scott Hist. Church Christ III. xxii. 274 In such esteem was he held, that the council ordered that he should preach the lent sermons. 2016 London Evening Standard (Nexis) 16 Feb. The best Lent sermon I have heard concerned the Pharisee and the tax collector. Lent time n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Lent > [noun] LentenOE Lent tidelOE Lentc1300 Lent timec1400 Quadragesime1483 Lent season?1490 Quadragesimac1560 Great Lent1591 Great Fasta1670 shrift-time1853 c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xix. l. 382 (MED) Comeþ..ȝe cristene, and dyneth, Þat han laboured..al þis lente tyme. 1574 J. Studley tr. J. Bale Pageant of Popes f. 73 On a certaine day of stations in the Lent time, y^e Popes should say masse at Rome in the Pallayce of the holy Crosse. 1721 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius No. 45 (single sheet) (verso)/2 These disputations..are so ordered, that they last all Lent-time. 1859 Standard (London) 13 Aug. 4/5 Catch herrings on the Irish coast.., and then send them to Ireland in Lent time to sell. 2015 Daily News (Sri Lanka) (Nexis) 30 Mar. During this lent time we do read in the Bible that Jesus had to stand alone. C2. Lent cloth n. now chiefly historical a cloth, typically purple in colour, hung in front of or over a religious image or object in Lent; cf. Lenten cloth n. at Lenten n. and adj. Compounds. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > cloths, carpets, cushions > cloth (general) > curtain or hanging cloth > [noun] > as a covering > to cover images during Lent Lent cloth1429 Lenten cloth1429 1429 in H. E. Salter Churchwardens' Accts. St. Michael's Oxf. (1933) 21 For a Lent cloth i-called the veylle iis. iiiid. 1552 in W. Page Inventories Church Goods York, Durham & Northumberland (1897) 44 One great clothe of canves cauled Lente clothe. 1806 Gentleman's Mag. June 526 The materials and colour of the Lent Cloths seem to have been objects of no very great concern. 1901 Archaeol. Jrnl. 2nd Ser. 8 154 The Lent cloth for the crucifix was painted with the Passion. 2001 E. Duffy Voices Morebath (2003) vi. 122 Sometime before the end of September 1548 she sold off the Lent cloth. Lent lily n. (and adj.) often literary and poetic the wild daffodil, Narcissus pseudonarcissus, esp. of the variety native to England and Wales; also as adj. with reference to the yellow colour of this flower. [Compare earlier Lent rose n. (a) and Lide-lily n. at Lide n. Compounds 2.] ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > daffodil and allied flowers > daffodil daffodilly1538 daffadowndilly1573 yellow crow-bells1578 daffodil1592 Lide-flower1609 Lide-lily1609 trumpet1705 daffy1777 Lent rose1796 chalice-flower1824 Lent lilya1825 Lenten lily1874 dilly1878 Golden Spur1886 trumpet daffodil1895 King Alfred1899 daff1915 bell-rose- a1825 T. F. Forster Pocket Encycl. Nat. Phenomena (1827) ii. 105 Lent Lily or Double early Daffodil Narcissus Pseudonarcissus plenus. 1872 Ld. Tennyson Gareth & Lynette 57 A silk pavilion,..all Lent-lily in hue. 1879 S. Hibberd Familiar Garden Flowers I. 155 As the trumpet daffodils are called ‘Lent lilies’, so the spring flowering hellebores are called ‘Lent roses’. 1917 D. H. Lawrence Look! We have come Through! 158 The chill lent lilies..slow-blooded, icy-fleshed, portentous. 2016 Kent & Sussex Courier (Nexis) 31 Aug. (Features section) 6 If you have longer grass and a wildflower meadow-style planting area, try planting snakeshead fritillaries, and native Lent lilies. † Lent meat n. [compare meat n. 1a] Obsolete (an item of) food suitable for eating during Lent or a similar period of fasting. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food otherwise characterized > [noun] > Lenten or fast-day food Lent meata1200 Lenten stuffa1513 Jack-a-Lent1548 Lent stuff1573 Lent provision1615 fast fooda1627 Friday fare1633 a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 67 (MED) Ete nu leinte mete, and enes o dai. 1483 W. Caxton in tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende f. ccclxxv^v/1 In aduent he ete neuer but lente mete. 1691 A. Gavin Observ. Journy to Naples 278 He added this Corollary, that upon the same account, Almond-milk was a good and lawful Lent Meat. Lent rose n. †(a) chiefly English regional a daffodil (cf. Lent lily n.), esp. one with a double flower (obsolete); (b) a hellebore, Helleborus orientalis; = Lenten rose n. at Lenten n. and adj. Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > daffodil and allied flowers > daffodil daffodilly1538 daffadowndilly1573 yellow crow-bells1578 daffodil1592 Lide-flower1609 Lide-lily1609 trumpet1705 daffy1777 Lent rose1796 chalice-flower1824 Lent lilya1825 Lenten lily1874 dilly1878 Golden Spur1886 trumpet daffodil1895 King Alfred1899 daff1915 bell-rose- 1796 W. Marshall Provincialisms W. Devonshire in Rural Econ. W. Eng. I. 328 Lent rose.., the Narcissus, or Daffodil. 1837 J. F. Palmer Gloss. in M. Palmer Dialogue Devonshire Dial. Butter-and-eggs, a species of daffodil or lent rose, Narcissus biflorus of Linnæus. 1879 S. Hibberd Familiar Garden Flowers I. 156 The conspicuous yellow stamens, which contribute so much to the beauty of the white-flowered Christmas rose, are distinct and welcome features of these new varieties of Lent roses. 1908 A. H. Church Types Floral Mechanism 118 (note) The term Lent Lily is of interest from its association with monastery gardens of the pre-Reformation era: large double forms are sometimes termed Lent-Roses. 1993 Washington Post (Nexis) 28 Jan. t16 Lent rose has small clusters of nodding bells about two inches across, with colors such as lime green, pink, dark purple and maroon, many of them speckled. Lent season n. †(a) the season of spring (obsolete); (b) the season of Lent (sense 2a). ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Lent > [noun] LentenOE Lent tidelOE Lentc1300 Lent timec1400 Quadragesime1483 Lent season?1490 Quadragesimac1560 Great Lent1591 Great Fasta1670 shrift-time1853 ?1490 tr. Gouernayle of Helthe sig. Aiij^v It ys to wete that in lente season that is to saye in veer & in the begynnyng of somer, [etc.]. 1574 J. Baret Aluearie L 284 Lent season, Quadragesima. 1722 S. Whatley tr. F. Micanzio Life of Father Paul p. xxxi, in tr. P. Sarpi Rights of Sovereigns & Subj. A priest..who in the preceding Lent season used to go every morning to the convent of Servi. 1889 Musical Times Nov. 649/2 Handel closed the Lent season of 1750 on April 11, and in June began the composition of the ‘Choice of Hercules’. 2002 Pennsylvania Mag. Hist. & Biogr. 126 421 Christian musicians performed at Jewish festivals, even during the Christian Lent season. † lent-sown adj. Obsolete rare sown in the spring; cf. spring sown at spring n.¹ Compounds 3d. ΚΠ 1795 Gentleman's Mag. July 539/2 The dryness of April and May was against the vegetation of the Lent-sown seed. 1844 Farmer's Mag. Aug. 184/2 The favourable weather experienced during the latter part of June..has worked a great improvement in the crops of Lent-sown corn. † Lent stuff n. Obsolete rare (a) food suitable for eating during Lent; (b) cloth hung in front of or over a religious image or object in Lent. [Compare earlier Lenten stuff n. at Lenten n. and adj. Compounds.] ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food otherwise characterized > [noun] > Lenten or fast-day food Lent meata1200 Lenten stuffa1513 Jack-a-Lent1548 Lent stuff1573 Lent provision1615 fast fooda1627 Friday fare1633 1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 36 To costeman ride, lent stuffe to prouide. 1901 Norfolk Archaeol. 14 171 The colour of the Lent stuff is not stated; it was probably, as usual, white, like the vestments. Lent term n. (at Cambridge University and formerly also at Oxford) the term in which Lent falls. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > year > season > [noun] > spring LenteneOE LentlOE warea1300 verec1325 vera1382 vere-time1382 springing timea1387 springinga1398 springa1400 prime tempsa1425 the spring of the year1481 grass1485 springtime1495 prime time1503 sap-time?1523 spring tide1530 (the) spring of the leaf1538 prime1541 prime tide1549 voar1629 vernal season1644 vernal1654 outcome1672 Lent term1691 blossom-time1713 open water1759 rabi1783 budding-timea1807 ware-time1820 growing season1845 1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses I. 294 Gabriel Powell..entred into Jesus coll. in Lent term 1592. 1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. iv. 68 We're only half through Lent term. 2008 Limnol. & Oceanogr. 53 1622/1 On sabbatical in Cambridge during Lent Term 2005. Lent tide n. †(a) the season of spring (obsolete); (b) the season of Lent (sense 2a). ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Lent > [noun] LentenOE Lent tidelOE Lentc1300 Lent timec1400 Quadragesime1483 Lent season?1490 Quadragesimac1560 Great Lent1591 Great Fasta1670 shrift-time1853 lOE Prognostics (Vesp.) in L. S. Chardonnens Anglo-Saxon Prognostics (2007) 495 Hit byð god winter, & windig lænctetid, dryge sumer, god hærfest. c1590 (a1572) J. Knox Hist. Reformation Scotl. (Glasgow Gen 1123) in Wks. (1846) I. 46 Whatsoever he had taucht in all his sermons before, the hole Lent-tyde preceiding. 1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 71 Euery yeare about Lent tide, the sherifes of Norwich bake certayne herring pies..and send them as a homage. 1837 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 41 751/1 This was seen and heard from the time he (Henry) came thither all the Lent-tide onward to Easter. 1865 Macmillan's Mag. Sept. 415/1 I once saw this him-her going into church during Lent-tide for confession. 1987 T. J. Saxby Quest for New Jerusalem 30 Thus Labadie's Lent-tide sermons at Montreuil drew criticism. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † lentn.² Forms: Also lente. Etymology: < Latin lent-em, lens. Obsolete. collective singular. Lentils. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > pulse > [noun] > chick-pea or lentil lentila1325 chicha1382 Cicer1382 lent1382 till1398 chickpea1542 chit1559 ram-ciche1597 fen lentil1601 ram's head ciche1601 lentil-pulse1660 chickny pea1693 gram1702 garbanzo1712 chana1838 lint1888 chana dal1895 fasels- the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > pulses or plants producing pulses > [noun] > chick-pea or lentil > chick-pea or lentil plant > collectively lent1382 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Ezek. iv. 9 Take thou to thee whete, and barli, and bene, and lent. 1388 Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) 2 Kings xxiii. 11 For~sothe there was a feeld ful of lente. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2021). lentn.³ Brit. /lɛnt/, U.S. /lɛnt/ Forms: Also Middle English lente, 1600s lenth, 1800s length. Etymology: < lent, past participle of lend n.¹ Obsolete exc. dialect. The action of lending; loan. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > giving > lending > [noun] loanc1290 lendinga1340 lentc1503 commodation1578 commodating1604 loaning1740 c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. Cix^v/2 That for y^e most part the conuenable seson of themploynge of the good lente was passed. 1646 in Rec. Mass. Bay (1853) II. 163 Maior Nehemiah Bourne..is granted ye lent of one drake from Dorchestr. 1682–3 Hartland Ch. Acc. (Hartland Gloss.) Pd for the lenth of two sarges 1s. 6d. 1697 A. de la Pryme Diary (1870) i. 163 Thanking him exceedingly for the lent thereof. 1740 L. Twells Life Pocock 49 in E. Pococke Theol. Wks. Dr. Pocock I Upon the Lent of Mr. Pocock's Copy. 1799 S. Lee Clergyman's Tale in H. Lee Canterbury Tales III. 449 Owens offered him the lent of his scythe. 1883 W. H. Cope Gloss. Hampshire Words Lent, length, the loan of a thing. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2022). lentadj.¹ Brit. /lɛnt/, U.S. /lɛnt/ Forms: Also Middle English lant(e. Etymology: past participle of lend v.² In senses of lend v.² (Formerly often used where we should now say ‘borrowed’.) ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > borrowing > [adjective] lent13.. borrowedc1440 lended1592 mutuated1598 mutuatitious1625 mutuatitial1654 13.. S. Erkenwolde 192 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1881) 270 He [the dead man] dryues owte wordes þurghe sum lant goste, lyfe of hyme þat al redes. c1420 Sir Amadace (Camd.) xxxviii For gud his butte a lante lone, Sum tyme men haue hit, sum tyme none. 1564 T. Becon New Catech. in Wks. 402 Examples..which may assertain vs of this liberality and lent good wil of God toward us. 1614 C. Brooke Ghost Richard III ii. ciii. sig. H3 In happy howre, I pai'd th' arrerages of his lent Good. a1627 A. Craig Pilgrime & Heremite (1631) sig. A1 When pale Ladie Lvna, with her lent light, Through the dawning of the Day was driven to depart. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2022). lentadj.² Brit. /lɛnt/, U.S. /lɛnt/ Forms: Also lente. Etymology: < French lent, < Latin lentus. †1. a. Slow, sluggish; said esp. of a fever, a fire. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > slowness of action or operation > [adjective] lateeOE slackc1000 slowc1225 heavya1400 lent14.. slowfulc1400 sloth1412 latesomea1425 sluggedc1430 sluggingc1430 tardy1483 lingeringa1547 tarde1547 sleuth1567 snailish1581 slow-moving1592 lagging1597 snail-paced1597 snail-slow1600 slow-pacing1616 snail-like1639 sluggish1640 ignave1657 languishing1693 slow-stepping1793 lentitudinous1801 somnolent1812 slow-coachish1844 tardigradous1866 vermigrade1938 slow-cooking1968 the world > movement > rate of motion > slowness > [adjective] > specifically of things or actions slackc1000 slowa1300 lent14.. slow-paced1610 adagio1729 vermigrade1938 14.. in Lanfranc's Cirurg. (1893) 297 (note) Boile hit with a lente fyre. 1583 P. Barrough Methode of Phisicke vi. xxxi. 303 Make a distillation with a lente and softe fier. 1612 B. Jonson Alchemist iii. ii. sig. G2 We must now encrease Our fire to Ignis ardens, we are past Fimus equinus, Balnei, Cineris, And all those lenter heates. View more context for this quotation 1658 R. Baillie Let. June (1842) III. 368 A lent feaver and defluction. 1661 R. Baillie Let. 31 Jan. (1842) III. 433 The last trick they have fallen on, to usurp the Magistracie, is..to get the deacons..created of their side;..but this lent-way does no satisfie. 1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet iii. 336 A continual Lent-Fever, with Rigors invading with uncertain Periods. †b. quasi-n. Slowness, delay. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > slowness > [noun] slacknessc1000 latenessOE sleutha1387 slowfulness1483 lenta1500 snailishness1905 the world > action or operation > manner of action > slowness of action or operation > [noun] slacknessc1000 hoolinessa1340 latesomeness1357 slothc1380 lateshipc1390 slownessa1398 lateliness?c1400 sluggednessc1425 slugginessc1450 sluggishnessc1450 tardityc1450 lenta1500 ignavy1543 retardance1550 lingering1570 tardiness1608 lentitude1623 languidness1634 tediousness1691 lentora1763 slow-coaching1837 snailishness1905 a1500 (?a1400) Sir Torrent of Portyngale (1887) l. 2561 With-oute lent, They wesh and to mete went. 2. Music. = lento adv. and adj. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > written or printed music > directions > [adverb] > for tempo adagio1680 presto1680 vivace1683 largo1702 allegrettoc1710 allegro1721 larghetto1724 lent1724 lento1724 moderato1724 prestissimo1724 stretto1740 a tempo1740 lentamente1762 accelerando1784 rallentando1786 ritardando1806 ritenuto1826 rit.1833 rapido1841 stringendo1853 lentando1854 allargando1873 rall.1876 trascinando1876 animato1879 largando1883 mässig1884 più mosso1931 1724 Short Explic. Foreign Words Musick Bks. Lent, or Lento, or Lentement, do all denote a Slow Movement. 1726 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (ed. 3) Lent [in Musick Books] denotes a slow Movement, and signifies much the same as Largo. 1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms 271/2 Lent, Slow, lento. 1882 J. Walker Descr. Jaunt to Auld Reekie 31 Wha played like thee a lente solo, Reel or Strathspey. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † lentv. Etymology: < lent, obsolete past participle of lean v.¹ Obsolete. intransitive. To lean. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of bending > bend [verb (intransitive)] lent1658 1658 W. Johnson tr. F. Würtz Surgeons Guid v. 363 A Child overturning himself or lenting backward..may soon get hurt. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2021). > see also also refers to : -lentsuffix > as lemmas lent b. Conjugated with the verb to be. to be lent = sense 3 lent (past participle) = remaining, abiding, dwelling. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > [adjective] residentc1384 indwelling14.. lentc1400 resiant1433 mansionary1447 inhabitant1526 commorantc1534 demurrant1544 ledger1577 couchant1602 inhabitinga1617 residentiary1640 residenting1650 habitant1856 the world > movement > absence of movement > [adjective] > remaining as opposed to going lentc1400 undeparting1581 unretreating1791 staying1852 stay-put1962 c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 1319 Þe lorde of þe londe is lent on his gamneȝ. c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 1084 Aungelles..Aboutte my lady was lent, quen ho delyuer were. a1440 Sir Eglam. 87 Evyr syth thou were a chylde Thou haste byn lente wyth me. c1480 (a1400) St. Clement 229 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 379 With me is lent a ȝung man, callit to nam clement. a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) i. xxx. sig. l.i Theyr company and mynysters, that were there lent. 1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid viii. Prol. 14 Langour lent is in land, all lychtnes is lost. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 13857 He fraynit..In what lond he was lent. 1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) 591 Thair was na leid on lyfe lent in this land. extracted from † lendv.¹ < n.¹lOEn.²1382n.³c1503adj.¹13..adj.²14..v.1658 see also as lemmas
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