quadragesimal

How to use quadragesimal in a sentence

• And when ten days of the quadragesimal fast were yet remaining, there came one to summon him to the king.

  The Evolution Of An English Town | Gordon Home

• In Illyria, Achaia and Alexandria the quadragesimal fast lasted six weeks.

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 | Various

• The common stinging-nettle (Sama) is, by boiling, also prepared into an indifferent food during the quadragesimal low diet.

  The Highlands of Ethiopia | William Cornwallis Harris