1eccl.timeliturgicalEmber Days, four separate sets of three days within the same week, one for every season of the year, set aside for fasting and prayer ('quattuor anni tempora'):
(
c.1292;
MS: c.1300
)
[...] ne en jours de quatuor temple
(var. .iiij. tens; quatre temps) ne en jours de majours letanies
i 346
(
s.xiiiex;
MS: 1307-15
)
E enz les advenz e en les semeines de quatour tempre devez vus tenir silence les mecredi e le vendirdi
182.16
(
s.xivin;
MS: 1312-40
)
meimes ces quatre tens, Dunt al comencement vus di, Quatre junes sunt asis, Ke quatuor tempre nomé sunt, Pur ceo ke as quatre tens charrunt
987