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Definition of Pascha
1. Noun. The Jewish feast of the Passover.
2. Noun. The Christian festival of Easter.
Definition of Pascha
1. Noun. Easter, the most important Christian religious feast ¹
2. Noun. Orthodox Christian church services during the week preceding Easter ¹
3. Adjective. pertaining to Easter. (e.g. in the Orthodox Christian church, Pascha week refers to the week preceding Easter) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pascha
Literary usage of Pascha
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"In this famous passage the historian has especially in mind the conflict as to
the day of the week and of the year on which pascha 2. ..."
2. The Leofric missal, as used in the Cathedral of Exeter during the episcopate by Catholic Church, Frederick Edward Warren (1883)
"Luna in pascha non potest esse minor quam .xv. nec maior quam .xxi. ... XL.
in pascha quinta decima. Si luna quarta initio .XL. in pascha sexta decima. ..."
3. Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature (1892)
"44 : " Eo anno post clausum pascha, etc. ... pascha; he finito tempore paschali."
To these I am able to add, ... in crastino clausi pascha";7 "et 1 Der ..."
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