antepaschal

English

Etymology

From ante- +‎ paschal.

Adjective

antepaschal (not comparable)

1. (chiefly Christianity) Relating to the time before the Passover, or before Easter.
   • 1854, Johann Lorenz Mosheim, Historical Commentaries on the State of Christianity During the First Three Hundred and Twenty-five Years from the Christian Era: Being a Translation of "The Commentaries on the Affairs of the Christians Before the Time of Constantine the Great.", page 506:

     Other Christians, for instance, had contented themselves with celebrating only one solemn fast in the year, namely, the Antepaschal one; but Montanus enjoined his followers to observe two additional weeks, with the exception of […]

Translations

before Easter

• Portuguese: pré-pascal

References

• “antepaschal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.