Associations to the word «Quinquagesima»
Adverb
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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.