Definition of "quadragesimal" []

• Belonging to Lent; used in Lent; Lenten. (adjective)

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• "Moses 'first quadragesimal was Exodus 24: 18: his second time was after he had destroyed the golden calf, Deuteronomy 10: 10: the third was after the tables of the law had been made anew, Exodus 34: 28."
• "And when ten days of the quadragesimal fast were yet remaining, there came one to summon him to the king."
• "No distinct traces of the quadragesimal observance are discernible until the fourth century."