eccl.liturgicaltimeEmber 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’):
(
1256;
MS: c.1300
) Quatre junes sunt asis, Ke quatuor tempre nomé sunt, Pur ceo ke as quatre tens charrunt
RAUF ANTS 987
( c.1292;
MS: c.1300 ) [...] ne en jours de quatuor temple
(var.
(M: s.xivin) .iiij. tens;
(N: c.1310) quatre temps
), ne en jours de majours letanies
BRITT 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
Ancren2 182.16
(
MS: s.xv
) .xij. jours sunt qe chescun cristien devereyt juner [...] sicum fount les .xij. apostles. Li premer [...]; le syme est a junes de quatre temprez en la symayne de pentecoyst
Five Med MSS 157.E422
tempre1 (1256)