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Pentecostals, pious oblations made at the feast of Pentecost by parishioners to their priests; and sometimes by inferior churches or parishes to the principal mother churches. They are also called Whitsun-farthings....
Pentecostal
Of or pertaining to Pentecost or to Whitsuntide...
Pentecostals
Offerings formerly made to the parish priest or to the mother church at Pentecost...
Pentecost
A solemn festival of the Jews so called because celebrated on the fiftieth day seven weeks after the second day of the Passover which fell on the sixteenth of the Jewish month Nisan hence called also the Feast of Weeks At this festival an offering of the first fruits of the harvest was made By the Jews it was generally regarded as commemorative of the gift of the law on the fiftieth day after the departure from Egypt...
Pentecoster
An officer in the Spartan army commanding fifty men...
Denarii de caritate
Denarii de caritate, customary oblations made to a cathedral church at Pentecost....
Feasts
Feasts, anniversary days of rejoining, either on a civil or religious occasion; opposed to fasts. Our feasts are either (1) immovable, such as Christmas-day, the Circumcision, Epiphany, Candlemas-day, Lady-day, All Saints, and All Souls, besides the days of the several apostles, St. Peter, St. Thomas, etc.: these are always celebrated on the same day of the year; or (2) movable, such as Easter,which fixes all the rest, as Palm Sunday, Good Friday, Ash Wednesday, Sexagesima, Ascension-day, Pentecost, Trinity Sunday, etc. The four principal immovable feasts of the year, which are commonly assigned in England for the payment of rents on leases, are the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, or Lady-day, being the 25th of March; the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, held on the 24th of June; the feast of St. Michael on the 29th of September; and Christmas-day on the 25th of December.A still unrepealed Act of 1551-2 (5 & 6 Edw. 6, c. 3), directs certain days therein mentioned (being all S...
Onus episcopale
Onus episcopale, ancient customary payments from the clergy, to their diocesan bishop, of synodals, pentecostals, etc....
Somke-farthings
Somke-farthings, pentecostals, which see....
Whitsun farthings
Whitsun farthings, pentecostals, which see....
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