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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to the Passover or to Easter.
  • In heraldry, a white lamb passant, carrying a banner argent with a cross gules (the banner of St. George, or simply an emblem of the crucifixion). This was an emblem of the Knights Templars, and occurs sometimes in heraldry as a bearing of persons not of the order.

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

  • adjective Of or pertaining to the passover, or to Easter
  • adjective (R. C. Ch.) a large wax candle, blessed and placed on the altar on Holy Saturday, or the day before Easter.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective of or relating to Passover
  • adjective of or relating to Easter, especially the Orthodox Pascha.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of or relating to Passover or Easter

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