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(=Quadoragena) is a forty days' fast, imposed by a bishop upon clergy or laity, or by an abbot upon monks. A MS. Penitential, quoted by Du Cange, speaks of fasting on bread and water, "quod in communti sermone carinia vocatur."-Smith, Dict. of Christ.