Meanings
adjectiveantepaschal (not comparable)
- not comparableChristianityRelating 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 on the Affairs of the Christians Before the Time of Constantine the Great.", page 506
Synonyms & antonyms
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Origin
Translations
Portuguese pré-pascal
- pré-pascalbefore Easter
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