Associations to the word «Septuagesima»

Wiktionary

SEPTUAGESIMA, noun. (Christianity) A Sunday in the Christian calendar nine weeks before Easter Sunday.

Dictionary definition

SEPTUAGESIMA, noun. The 3rd Sunday before Lent (or the 9th before Easter).

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats