Eccl. Antiq. [ad. med.L. quindēna, f. L. quindēnī, distrib. of quindecim fifteen.] The fifteenth (in mod. reckoning, fourteenth) day after a church-festival. Cf. QUINZIÈME.

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1494.  Fabyan, Chron., II. 460. He toke his leue of seynt Denys about ye quyndene of Pasche.

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1605.  Stow, Ann., 487. On the eleuenth of March, the Parliament was proroged vnto the quinden of Pasch.

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1610.  Holland, Camden’s Brit., II. Ireland, 177. In the Quindene of Easter, news out of England arrived in Ireland.

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1700.  Tyrrell, Hist. Eng., II. 873. The Quindene, or Fifteenth day after Easter was appointed.

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1758.  Bp. Lowth, Life William of Wykeham, 157. In the Parliament holden at Westminster, on the Quindene of St. Hilary last past.

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1875.  Stubbs, Const. Hist., II. xiv. 65, note. The second parliament was held at Oxford in the quindene of Easter.

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