Definition of "Lenten"

Lenten

/ˈlɛntən/

adjective
comparative more Lenten, superlative most Lenten
1. Pertaining to Lent; taking place during Lent.
  Quotations
  And perhaps it was the same politick drift that the Divell whipt St. Jerom in a lenten dream, for reading Cicero […] .
  1644, John Milton, Areopagitica
  And there's the Lenten lily / That has not long to stay / And dies on Easter day.
  1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, XXIX, line 8-10
2. Appropriate to Lent; meagre, sombre.
  Quotations
  To thinke, my Lord, if you delight not in Man, what Lenton entertainment the Players shall receiue from you […] .
  c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene ii]