Obs. [ad. med. (Anglo-)L. trīcennāle, in form neuter of L. trīcennālis of or belonging to thirty years, f. triciēs thirty times + annus year, but app. erroneously used for a tricenary or trental.] = TRICENARY B.
1537. trans. Latimer’s 2nd Serm. bef. Convoc., E ij. Your forefathers sawe somwhat whiche made this constitution, against the venalitie and sale of Masses, that vnder peine of suspending, no priest shuld sell his sayinge of tricennals, or annals.
[1707. Fleetwood, Chron. Prec. (1745), 109. Tricennalia were called Trentals from Trigintalia, and in English, a months-mind, because the service lasted a month or 30 days, in which they said so many masses.]
