Quadragesima n. : The forty days of fast preceding Easter; Lent.

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Taxonomy
Quadragesima, newadvent, Greeks, London, Catholic Encyclopedia, Christ, Duchesne, The Catholic Encyclopedia, Rock, New York, Robert, Appleton, Company, cathen, fasting and prayer, Anglo-Saxon Church, Church Mass, Nilles.

Defination from the web:
... In the Anglo-Saxon Church Mass was said on the weekdays of Quadragesima late in the afternoon and food was taken only near sunset (Rock, IV, 76) ...