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Webster 1913 Edition

(kwăsˊĭ-mō′dō̍)

Noun.

[So called from the first words of the Latin introit,

quasi modo geniti infantes

as newborn babes,

1 Pet. ii. 2.

]

(R. C. Ch.)

The first Sunday after Easter; Low Sunday.

See also: quasimodo and Quasimodo

quasímodo m (plural quasímodos)