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Ash-Wednesday. World English Historical Dictionary

Ash-Wednesday. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1888, rev. 2024. Ash-Wednesday [f. ASH sb.2 + WEDNESDAY.] The first day of Lent; so called from the custom in the Roman Catholic Church of sprinkling ashes on the heads of penitents on that day.

1 1297.  R. Glouc., 542. An Ax wednesdai … To Gloucetre he wende.

2 1387.  Trevisa, Higden (Rolls Ser.), VI. 429. In an Aschewednesday.

3 1539.  Bk. Cerem., in Strype, Eccl. Mem., I. App. cix. 291. The giving of ashes upon Ashwednesday, with these words, ‘Remember, man, that thou art ashes and to ashes thou shalt return.’

4 1834.  Penny Cycl., II. 454/2. Pope Gregory the Great introduced the sprinkling of ashes … which gave it the name of Ash-Wednesday.

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