sexagesima

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sexagesima - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Sexagesima \Sex`a*ges"i*ma\, n. [L., fem. of sexagesimus
     sixtieth, fr. sexaginta sixty.] (Eccl.)
     The second Sunday before Lent; -- so called as being about
     the sixtieth day before Easter.
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