Now only Hist. Also 5–6 -gen-. [ad. med.L. trīgintāle, f. L. trīgrintā thirty: see -AL.] = TRENTAL. Also attrib.

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1491.  Cartular. S. Nicholai Aberdon. (New Spald. Cl.), I. 257. Ye Songe mess with note on ye morne yereftire at Sanct nicholess alter, and trigental of saidis messis in ye oulk follouinge.

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1530.  in N. & Q., 9th Ser. VI. 414/1. An hole trigintall of masses to be saide in the churche where I shalbe buryed.

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1726.  Ayliffe, Parergon, 190. Trentals or Trigintals were also a number of Masses, to the Tale of Thirty,… instituted (as pretended by St. Gregory).

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1898.  A. F. Leach, Beverley Act Bk., I. p. lxxx. The annuals, trigintals … with legacies and Lenten tithes are worth 20 marks.

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