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单词 quarter tense
释义

quarter tensen.

Brit. /ˈkwɔːtə ˌtɛns/, U.S. /ˈkwɔrdər ˌtɛns/
Forms: also occasionally with capital initial(s).
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: quarter n., tense n.
Etymology: < quarter n. + tense n., after French Quatre Temps quater temps n.
= quater temps n.
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society > faith > worship > liturgical year > fast > [noun] > period of > recurrent, Ember days
emberc1000
ember-daya1036
ember-fasta1036
quater tempsc1430
ember-Friday1584
ember-eve1609
quarter tense1869
1869 T. Arnold in Wyclif's Sel. Wks. I. 377 ‘Quatuor Tempora’, or, as it is called in Ireland, Quarter Tense.
1892 Middletown (N.Y.) Daily Times 11 June 3/2 Yesterday and to-day and ember days, or fast days of the quarter tense in Catholic churches.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvi. [Eumaeus] 576 To fast and abstain on the days commanded, it being quarter tense or, if not, ember days or something like that.
1955 P. Flynn Red Let. Feasts for Catholic Schools iii. 20 Ember Days (Quarter Tense).
1991 T. J. Talley Origins Liturg. Year (ed. 2) ii. viii. 111 Nor, in fact, were the dates assigned to the quarter-tense days in the Julian calendar astronomically correct.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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