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paternoster
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The Lord's prayer, especially in a Roman Catholic context. 2 (context archaic English) A rosary; a string of beads used in counting the prayers said. 3 A slow, continuously moving lift or elevator consisting of a loop of open-fronted cabins running ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A paternoster (, , or ) or paternoster lift is a passenger elevator which consists of a chain of open compartments (each usually designed for two persons) that move slowly in a loop up and down inside a building without stopping. Passengers can step on ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"the Lord's Prayer," Old English Pater Noster , from Latin pater noster "our father," first words of the Lord's Prayer in Latin. Meaning "set of rosary beads" first recorded mid-13c. Paternoster Row , near St. Paul's in London (similarly named streets are ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Paternoster \Pa"ter*nos`ter\, n. [L., Our Father.] The Lord's prayer, so called from the first two words of the Latin version. (Arch.) A beadlike ornament in moldings. (Angling) A line with a row of hooks and bead-shaped sinkers. (Mining) An elevator ...
Usage examples of paternoster.
Clive Paternoster lit a Gauloise and plunged his hands deep into the pockets of his black raincoat.
I left him, Clive Paternoster fetched his old atlas of the British Isles down from the bookcase.
Heywood was dead and had found himself talking with Clive Paternoster as I had.
God in His infinite wisdom had spared old Clive Paternoster, who had known most of what Robbie knew.
Clive Paternoster, you have known so much for so long, you and Robbie Heywood, that it would have been grossly unjust to withhold from you the final chapter.
Torricelli nephew, such a snot, and Paternoster with his incredible nose and the tramps cooking dinner in the rain in the Place de la Contrescarpe.
Guarionex, the Lord of the Vega Real, who had once been friendly enough, who had danced to the Spanish pipe and learned the Paternoster and Ave Maria, and whose progress in conversion to Christianity the seduction of his wives by those who were converting him had interrupted, after wandering in the mountains of Ciguay had been imprisoned in chains, and drowned in the hurricane of June 30, 1502.
His eyes were fastened upon the north, where lay the Paternoster Rocks.
The sun had gone down, the dusk was creeping on, and against the dark of the north there was a shimmer of fire--a fire that leapt and quivered about the Paternoster Rocks.
Walking away from the cemetery, Clive Paternoster lit a Gauloise and plunged his hands deep into the pockets of his black raincoat.
Before I left him, Clive Paternoster fetched his old atlas of the British Isles down from the bookcase.
And Monk could be counted on to scour the bookstalls in Paternoster Row and Westminster Hall, or anywhere else I might see fit to send him.
Lambeth ale at lunch revived me, and I caught a hackney-coach to Westminster Hall, where, of course, I had no better luck than in either Little Britain or Paternoster Row.
I decided that tomorrow I would put a few questions about in Little Britain and Paternoster Row.
Panorama on Thursday, unless you would prefer to investigate the booksellers of Paternoster Row?