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antepaschal

antepaschal adjective: relating to the time before the Passover, or before Easter.

Adjective

antepaschal (not comparable)

  1. Relating to the time before the Passover, or before Easter.
    • Other Christians, for instance, had contented themselves with celebrating only one solemn fast in the year, namely, the Antepaschal one; but Montanus enjoined his followers to observe two additional weeks, with the exception of[…]1854, Johann Lorenz Mosheim, Historical Commentaries on the State of Christianity During the First Three Hundred and Twenty-five Years from the Christian Era: Being a Translation of "The Commentaries...

Origin of antepaschal

From ante- + paschal.

Questions about antepaschal

What does antepaschal mean?
Antepaschal means relating to the time before the Passover, or before Easter.
What part of speech is antepaschal?
Antepaschal is an adjective.

Words near antepaschal in the dictionary

  1. antepagments
  2. antepagmentum
  3. antepalatal
  4. antepartal
  5. antepartum
  6. antepaschal
  7. antepast
  8. antepasts
  9. antepectoral
  10. antependia
  11. antependium

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