Obs. rare–1. [ad. med.L. carēna a forty days’ fast, also a remission of such fast; according to Du Cange formed from quadragēna or quarantena. Cf. QUADRAGESIMA, QUARANTINE.]
A forty days’ fast; a remission or indulgence from forty days of fasting. ? = CARENTANE.
1647. Jer. Taylor, Dissuas. Popery, I. iv. § 4 (R.). Were you well advis’d? it may be your Quadragenes are not Carenes, that is, are not a quitting the severest penances of fasting so long on bread and water.
