||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.
||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.