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Pascha :: Pascha (n.) The passover; the feast of Easter.

Tripaschal :: Tripaschal (a.) Including three passovers.

Easter :: Easter (n.) An annual church festival commemorating Christ's resurrection, and occurring on Sunday, the second day after Good Friday. It corresponds to the pasha or passover of the Jews, and most nations still give it this name under the various forms of pascha, pasque, paque, or pask..

Paschal :: Paschal (a.) Of or pertaining to the passover, or to Easter; as, a paschal lamb; paschal eggs..

Passover :: Passover (n.) A feast of the Jews, instituted to commemorate the sparing of the Hebrews in Egypt, when God, smiting the firstborn of the Egyptians, passed over the houses of the Israelites which were marked with the blood of a lamb..

Pentecost :: Pentecost (n.) 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..

Dipaschal :: Dipaschal (a.) Including two passovers.

Passover :: Passover (n.) The sacrifice offered at the feast of the passover; the paschal lamb.

Matzoth :: Matzoth (n.) A cake of unleavened bread eaten by the Jews at the feast of the Passover.

Antepaschal :: Antepaschal (a.) Pertaining to the time before the Passover, or before Easter..

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