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" ... days are the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday after the first Sunday in Lent, after the feast of Pentecost, after the 14th September, and after the 13th December. The term 'embering... "
Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People - Page 29
by Ephraim Chambers - 1870
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The International Cyclopedia: A Compendium of Human Knowledge, Volume 5

1890 - 1372 pages
...the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England, three days are appointed four times in the year to be observed as days of fasting and abstinence;...Lent, after the feast of Pentecost, after the 14th Sept., and after the 18th Dec. The term " embering" has been variously derived from the Greek avepai,...
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Chamber's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge, Volume 4

1890 - 870 pages
...three days appointed four times in the year to be observed as days of fasting and abstinence ; being the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday after the first...the 14th September, and after the 13th December. The name is probably derived from the Saxon ymb, ' about," and ryne, a 'course' or 'running,' and applied...
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CHAMBERS'S ENCYCLOPAEDIA: A DICTIONARY OF UNIVERSAL KNOWLEDGE NEW EDITION ...

ROBERT CHAMBERS - 1892 - 882 pages
...three days appointed four times in the year to lie observed as days of fasting and abstinence; being the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday after the first...the 14th September, and after the 13th December. The name is probably derived from the Saxon ymb, ' about,' and ryne, a 'course' or 'running,' and applied...
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Handy-book of Literary Curiosities

William S. Walsh - 1892 - 1116 pages
...liturgical Churches have appointed to be observed respectively in the four seasons of the year. They Whit-Sunday, after September 14, and after December 13. The weeks in which these days fall are called...
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Handy-book of Literary Curiosities

William Shepard Walsh - 1892 - 1114 pages
...liturgical Churches have appointed to be observed respectively in the four seasons of the year. They are the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday after the first Sunday in Lent, after Whit-Sunday, after September 14. and after December 13. The weeks in which these days fall are called...
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Dictionary of the Welsh language: B-Byw

Daniel Silvan Evans - 1893 - 680 pages
...Wyíhnos y cadgoriau, | ember- week^the week Wythnne y cadgorau, j in which the emberdays fall, which are the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, after the first Sunday in Lent, the feast of Whitsunday, the 14th of September, and the 13th of December. Y dydd Mercher, y dydd Owener,...
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge, Volume 4

1896 - 844 pages
...three days appointed four times in the year to be observed as days of fasting and abstinence ; being the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday after the first...Sunday in Lent, after the feast of Pentecost, after the Í4th September, and after the 13th December. The name is probably derived from the Saxon ymb, ' about,'...
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The Columbian Cyclopedia, Volume 10

1897 - 920 pages
...the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England, three days are appointed four times in the year to be observed as days of fasting and abstinence;...are the Wednesday. Friday, and Saturday after the Sunday first in Lent, after the feast of Pentecost or Whitsunday, after Sep. 14, and after Dec. 13....
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The International Cyclopedia: A Compendium of Human Knowledge, Rev ..., Volume 5

Harry Thurston Peck - 1898 - 964 pages
...the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England, three days are appointed four times in the year to be observed as days of fasting and abstinence; these days are the Widnesday, Friday, and Saturday after the first Sunday in Lent, after the feast of Pentecost, after...
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The History of the Book of Common Prayer

Leighton Pullan - 1900 - 386 pages
...(in German Quatembcr), a corruption of the Latin Quatuor Tempora, the fasts of the 'four seasons,' the Wednesday, Friday and Saturday after the first...Sunday in Lent, after the feast of Pentecost, after September 14, and after December 13. Embolixmoi, 28, 34, 35, 60. EpikUsis, the prayer for the descent...
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