Lenten

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Lenten \Lent"en\ (l[e^]nt"'n), n.
     Lent. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Lenten \Lent"en\, a. [From OE. lenten lent. See {Lent}, n. ]
     1. Of or pertaining to the fast called Lent; used in, or
        suitable to, Lent; as, the Lenten season.
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              She quenched her fury at the flood,
              And with a Lenten salad cooled her blood. --Dryden.
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     2. Spare; meager; plain; somber; unostentatious; not abundant
        or showy. "Lenten entertainment." " Lenten answer."
        --Shak. " Lenten suit." --Beau. & Fl.
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     {Lenten color}, black or violet. --F. G. Lee.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  lenten
       adj : of or relating to or suitable for Lent; "lenten food"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  66 Moby Thesaurus words for "Lenten":
     Apostolic, Encratic, Pythagorean, Rechabite, Shaker, Spartan,
     Stoic, abstemious, abstinent, ascetic, austere, celibate, chaste,
     continent, dwarfed, dwarfish, exiguous, fasting, frugal,
     fruitarian, impoverished, jejune, lean, limited, meager, mean,
     miserly, narrow, nephalistic, niggardly, on the wagon, paltry,
     parsimonious, poor, puny, quadragesimal, scant, scanty, scrawny,
     scrimp, scrimpy, sexually abstinent, skimp, skimpy, slender,
     slight, slim, small, spare, sparing, starvation, stingy, stinted,
     straitened, stunted, subsistence, sworn off, teetotal, thin,
     uneating, unfed, unnourishing, unnutritious, vegetarian, watered,
     watery