Obs. rare. [ad. L. quadrāgēsim-a: see above.] = QUADRAGESIMA.
c. 1440. Gesta Rom., I. lxii. 266 (Harl. MS.). A goode cristyn man that wele blessidly hath fast all the quadragesme.
1612. R. Sheldon, Serm. St. Martin’s, 5. To proportion my discourse to the season, when we all are … making a Quadragesime, or fortieth, as a parasceue of Christ his death and passion.
1612. Selden, Illustr. Drayton’s Poly-olb., xi. 207, Wks. 1876, II. 91. You will lose therein forty days, and the common name of Quadragesime.
