单词 | quadragene |
释义 | quadragenen. rare (now chiefly historical). Roman Catholic Church A forty-day indulgence (indulgence n. 3). ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrament > confession > penance > remission of penance > [noun] > indulgentiary > forty days Lentenc1390 lent of pardon (formerly also penance)c1450 carenec1503 quadragene1617 1617 I. W. Chayne Twelue Links 87 Also he granted seauen yeares and as many quadragens of enioyned penance, to al the brethren that recite euery weeke the whole Rosary. 1664 Bp. J. Taylor Disswasive from Popery ii. iv. 93 You have..purchased to your self so many Quadragenes or Lents of pardon; that is, you have bought off the penances of so many times forty dayes. 1781 Daily Pious Prayers & Pract. 7 Pope Clement XIV..has been pleased to grant an Indulgence of seven years, and of as many Quadragenæ, or forty days, to every one of the faithful of Christ above mentioned. 1858 J. W. Hull & H. B. Smith tr. J. C. L. Giesler Text-bk. Church Hist. III. 401 There is one with an indulgence of 100,000 years, and twenty quadragenes. 1962 Jrnl. Warburg & Courtauld Instit. 25 329/1 In a Bull of the following year he increased it from seven years and five quadragenes to five years and five quadragenes for the saying of a rosary of fifty Aves. 2001 J. Riley tr. E. Fischer-Lichte Hist. European Drama & Theatre i. 47 Actors and spectators were often granted indulgences; generally to the scale of one Quadragene (a forty-day fast on bread and water in return for divine grace). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1617 |
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