Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A sweet wine boiled down.
- noun A forty days' fast formerly imposed by a bishop upon clergy or laity, or by an abbot upon monks.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Ecol.), obsolete A fast of forty days on bread and water.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun religion, obsolete A
fast offorty days onbread andwater .
Etymologies
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Late Latin carena, corrupted from quarentena. See quarantine.
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[From French (en) carène, (on) the keel, from Old French carene, from Old Italian carena
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