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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB recite ▪ She said the best part is teaching people the significance and power of reciting the rosary . ▪ Three elderly nuns are on a bench in front of them; they are reciting the rosary . say ▪ Vi said her rosary then ...
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n. beads used in counting prayers (especially Catholic rosary) [syn: prayer beads ]
Usage examples of rosary.
In 1486 a priest in London writes to his patron in Yorkshire: I send a paper of the Rosary of Our Lady of Coleyn, and I have registered your name with both my Ladis names, as the paper expresses, and ye be acopled as brethren and sisters.
On my answering in the affirmative he fell on his knees, and drawing an enormous rosary from his pocket he cast his gaze all round the cell.
A strangled Beanie Baby hung from the rearview mirror on a red rosary.
Britishborn bairns lisping prayers to the Sacred Infant, youthful scholars grappling with their pensums or model young ladies playing on the pianoforte or anon all with fervour reciting the family rosary round the crackling Yulelog while in the boreens and green lanes the colleens with their swains strolled what times the strains of the organtoned melodeon Britannia metalbound with four acting stops and twelvefold bellows, a sacrifice, greatest bargain ever .
The very next morning I went to the exchange in order to procure a passage to Constantinople, but I could not find any passenger ship sailing before two or three months, and I engaged a berth in a Venetian ship called, Our Lady of the Rosary, Commander Zane, which was to sail for Corfu in the course of the month.
Malipiero, who had no rosary when I read it to him, was of opinion that it would not prove acceptable to the parson.
I had to put up with a long story about the miracles of the Rosary which his wife, whose confessor was a young Dominican, had told him.
As soon as I got up I knelt and allowed him to imitate me, and I spent three hours in saying the rosary to him.
After saluting the Head of the Faithful, and kissing the holy cross embroidered on his holy slipper, the Pope put his right hand on my left shoulder, and said he remembered that I always forsook the assembly at Padua, when he intoned the Rosary.
The Mooddin was chanting the call to prayers, and the old porter at the gate was muttering over his rosary as the Mahdi left the town in the dawn.
Others retained a certain ornamental beauty or an orderliness that hinted of meaning, as a rosary might suggest a necklace to a nomad.
Hannah folded the habit with care, making sure her rosary beads, wooden cross and the widdy were all safely ensconced in a pocket.
Judith MacDonald, Susan Hunt and her sister Holly, the Boise gang, and many others, for their thoughtful gifts of wine, drawings, rosaries, chocolate, Celtic music, soap, statuary, pressed heather from Culloden, handkerchiefs with echidnas, Maori pens, English teas, garden trowels, and other miscellanea meant to boost my spirits and keep me writing far past the point of exhaustion.
The door pounced open and there she was in pink flannel, a scapular around her neck and a rosary in her hands.
Farther along someone else sold rosaries, scapulars, prayer books and medals from a pop-top Volkswagen van.