Associations to the word «Quinquagesima»

Wiktionary

QUINQUAGESIMA, noun. (Christianity) a Sunday in the Christian calendar. It is 50 days, using inclusive counting, backwards, from Easter Sunday.

Dictionary definition

QUINQUAGESIMA, noun. The Sunday before Ash Wednesday (the beginning of Lent).

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope