Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The second Sunday before Lent.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The second Sunday before Lent. See Septuagesima.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Eccl.) The second Sunday before Lent; -- so called as being about the sixtieth day before Easter.

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  • noun Christianity In the Christian calendar the Sunday two weeks before Lent, eight before Easter Sunday.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Late Latin sexāgēsima (diēs), sixtieth (day), from feminine of Latin sexāgēsimus, sixtieth, from sexāgintā, sixty; see sexagenary.]

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from Latin sexagesima dies, from the feminine of sexagesimus '60th' + dies 'day'

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Examples

  • (Most of Genesis 5, 31 – 8, 21, the second Prophecy of the Roman Rite, is read in both the Dominican and Roman Breviaries in Sexagesima week.)

    Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 7 - The Vigil of Pentecost and the Holy Week Readings 2009

  • Being that the members of the New Calendar Eastern Churches are now in the Week of the Last Judgement and that the Latin Rite Church just celebrated Sexagesima Sunday yesterday, it seemed appropriate to provide some food for thought with the coming of Great Lent.

    Archive 2007-02-01 Francis 2007

  • Being that the members of the New Calendar Eastern Churches are now in the Week of the Last Judgement and that the Latin Rite Church just celebrated Sexagesima Sunday yesterday, it seemed appropriate to provide some food for thought with the coming of Great Lent.

    The Reality of Discipleship Francis 2007

  • In Spain there was such a day on Saturday before Sexagesima or before Pentecost, at the time of St. Isidore d.

    All Souls Day de Brantigny........................ 2007

  • In the Greek Rite this commemoration is held on the eve of Sexagesima Sunday, or on the eve of Pentecost.

    All Souls Day de Brantigny........................ 2007

  • In the Greek Rite this commemoration is held on the eve of Sexagesima Sunday, or on the eve of Pentecost.

    Archive 2007-10-28 de Brantigny........................ 2007

  • In Spain there was such a day on Saturday before Sexagesima or before Pentecost, at the time of St. Isidore d.

    Archive 2007-10-28 de Brantigny........................ 2007

  • Not only was Blogspot down last night for hardware maintenance - which is why you didn't hear anything from me about Sexagesima Sunday and its liturgy yesterday - but today it has decided to do something completely new.

    02/01/2003 - 03/01/2003 John 2003

  • Septuagesima, Sexagesima, and Quinquagesima Sundays are approximately seventy, sixty, and fifty days before Easter.

    A Handbook of Symbols in Christian Art Gertrude Grace Sill 1975

  • Septuagesima, Sexagesima, and Quinquagesima Sundays are approximately seventy, sixty, and fifty days before Easter.

    A Handbook of Symbols in Christian Art Gertrude Grace Sill 1975

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