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Definition of Septuagesima

Septuagesima
Septuagesima Sep`tu*a*ges"i*ma, n. [NL., fr. L. septuagesimus the seventieth, fr. septuaginta seventy.] (Eccl.) The third Sunday before Lent; -- so called because it is about seventy days before Easter.

Meaning of Septuagesima from wikipedia

- Septuagesima (/ˌsɛptjuəˈdʒɛsɪmə/) is the ninth Sunday before Easter, the third before Ash Wednesday. The term is sometimes applied to the seventy days...
- festival, Carnival or Shrovetide. The pre-Lenten period begins with Septuagesima, first do****ented in Gregory the Great. It traditionally opens a period...
- reflections as would be profitable and in keeping with the themes of Septuagesima. The name "****agesima" is derived from the Latin ****agesimus, meaning...
- readings. The season begins on January 14 and ends on the Sa****ay before Septuagesima Sunday. Omitted Sundays after Epiphany are transferred to Time after...
- pre-1970 forms of the Roman Rite it is excluded also in the pre-Lenten Septuagesima period and in M****es for the Dead. The same word, which normally follows...
- is replaced by another phrase. Before 1970, the omission began with Septuagesima, and the whole Acclamation was omitted and was replaced by a Tract; and...
- rev 2: 119 144 1. 1724-02-06 Cantata Nimm, was dein ist, und gehe hin (Septuagesima) B min. satSATB 2Ob Oba Str Bc 30: 75 I/7: 1 after Z 5629 (/3), 7568...
- terms for this Sunday and the two immediately before it (****agesima and Septuagesima Sundays) were eliminated in the reforms following the Second Vatican...
- except on Ember Wednesday. But no genuflection is envisaged when after Septuagesima the same Tract is used in the votive M**** at a time of Mortality (Missa...
- Thanksgiving Day. Green from and with Vespers of the Sa****ay before Septuagesima to Vespers of the day before Ash Wednesday, beginning with the second...