About Report a problem

Menu

tessarescedecatita

tessarescedecatita [cf. tessarescedecas], quartodeciman heretic, one who begins Easter on eve of fourteenth day of Nisan, rather than on eve of following Sunday. p675 erat ‥ genus quoddam hereticorum aput orientales quod tessereskaedecaditae vocatur id est quartadecimani, eo quod quarta decima luna cum Judeis Christum blasphemantibus ‥ Paschae solemnitatem peragunt Aldh. Ep. 4; Isidorus dicit [Etym. VIII 5. 60] quod tessarescedecatice sunt dicti heretici qui contendebant semper celebrari Pasca in xiiij luna Bacon Gram. Gk. 78.

Saved

Recent