The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1910 page)
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Qorb
n
,
qurb
n
:
n,
qurb
n:
Quadragesima
(Lat., ‘fortieth [day]’). Another name for the forty days of
Lent
, or for the first Sunday in Lent, six weeks before
Easter
.
Lent
, or for the first Sunday in Lent, six weeks before
Easter
.
Quadragesimo Anno
.
.
An
encyclical
issued on 15 May 1931 by
Pius
XI on the fortieth anniversary of
Leo XIII's
Rerum Novarum
, an encyclical concerned with the ordering of society and of economic relations, giving rise to ‘a true Catholic social science’.
Quadragesimo Anno
addresses, more than its predecessor, questions of ownership and of wages.
encyclical
issued on 15 May 1931 by
Pius
XI on the fortieth anniversary of
Leo XIII's
Rerum Novarum
, an encyclical concerned with the ordering of society and of economic relations, giving rise to ‘a true Catholic social science’.
Quadragesimo Anno
addresses, more than its predecessor, questions of ownership and of wages.
Quakers
.
.
Usual name for the Society of
Friends
. It was first given in the mid-17th cent. to the followers of George
Fox
. Its derivation is uncertain: it may be derived from an occasion when, in 1650, Fox told a judge in Derby to ‘tremble at the Word of the Lord’; or from an existing women's sect; or from the ‘spiritual trembling’ experienced at meetings.
Friends
. It was first given in the mid-17th cent. to the followers of George
Fox
. Its derivation is uncertain: it may be derived from an occasion when, in 1650, Fox told a judge in Derby to ‘tremble at the Word of the Lord’; or from an existing women's sect; or from the ‘spiritual trembling’ experienced at meetings.
Quartodecimans
.
.
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