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101Lent — Lẹnt, Friedrich, Rechtslehrer, * Nöschenrode (heute zu Wernigerode) 6. 1. 1882, ✝ München 30. 4. 1960; 1918 50 Professor für bürgerliches Recht, Zivilprozess und Konkursrecht sowie freiwillige Gerichtsbarkeit in Erlangen. Werke: Die… …
102Lent — Synonyms and related words: Advent, Allhallowmas, Allhallows, Allhallowtide, Annunciation, Annunciation Day, Ascension Day, Ash Wednesday, Candlemas, Candlemas Day, Carnival, Christmas, Corpus Christi, Easter, Easter Monday, Easter Saturday,… …
103LENT — a period of fasting previous to Easter, at first lasting only 40 hours, was gradually extended to three, four, or six days, then different Churches extended it to three and six: weeks; in the 6th century Gregory the Great fixed it for the West …
104lent — f ( e/ a) lentil [L lentem] …
105lent — adj. m., pl. lenţi; f. sg. léntã, pl. lénte …
106lent — (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. loaned, out at interest, borrowed; see given …
107lent — I. , part. == gone, departed? Wright’s L. P. p. 28. See Gloss. to Orm. s. v. ‘lendenn’ II. , sb. RG. 495 …
108lent — lend v. give on a temporary basis; give money as a loan; donate, contribute; give, impart; help, assist; accommodate, adapt …
109LENT — Lentulus …
110Lent — A forty day period of abstinence in which Jesus’s sojourn in the wilderness is remembered …