GARNIPRIVIUM (carnispricium, pricicarnium). — This was the name given in many places to Quinquagesima Sunday, because on that day, or more precisely on the following Monday, abstinence from meat began. This abstinence concerned almost exclusively the clergy; hence the name *c. sacerdotum*. Indeed, a Council of Clermont in 1095 obliged the clergy to abstain from meat starting from Quinquagesima Sunday. However, the practice of beginning Lenten abstinence on the Monday after Quinquagesima did not last long, and soon the ancient custom of commencing Lent on Ash Wednesday was restored.
In the Mozarabic liturgy, Quinquagesima is called *ante carnes tollendas*; the Greeks refer to it as ἀ π о χε ὠ V. BIBLICA.: F. A. Zaccaría, *Osmnosticon rituale*, Faenza 1787, p. 435; C. Ducange, s. V. in *Glossarium ad scriptores mediae et infimae latinitatis*, II, Paris 1842, p. 191.