Meaning of ASH WEDNESDAY
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[n] the 7th Wednesday before Easter; the first day of Lent; the day following Mardi Gras (`fat Tuesday'); a day of fasting and repentance |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Ash` Wednes"day\ ([a^]sh` w[e^]nz"d[asl]).
The first day of Lent; -- so called from a custom in the
Roman Catholic church of putting ashes, on that day, upon the
foreheads of penitents.
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| | Related Terms: | | Advent, Allhallowmas, Allhallows, Allhallowtide, Annunciation, Annunciation Day, Ascension Day, Candlemas, Candlemas Day, Carnival, Christmas, Corpus Christi, Easter, Easter Monday, Easter Saturday, Easter Sunday, Eastertide, Ember days, Epiphany, Good Friday, Halloween, Hallowmas, Holy Thursday, Holy Week, Lady Day, Lammas, Lammas Day, Lammastide, Lent, Lententide, Mardi Gras, Martinmas, Maundy Thursday, Michaelmas, Michaelmas Day, Michaelmastide, Palm Sunday, Pancake Day, Passion Week, Pentecost, Quadragesima, Quadragesima Sunday, Septuagesima, Shrove Tuesday, Trinity Sunday, Twelfth-day, Twelfth-tide, White Sunday, Whitmonday, Whitsun, Whitsunday, Whitsuntide, Whit-Tuesday, Whitweek |
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