(n.) The Book of Psalms; -- often applied to a book containing the Psalms separately printed.
(n.) Specifically, the Book of Psalms as printed in the Book of Common Prayer; among the Roman Catholics, the part of the Breviary which contains the Psalms arranged for each day of the week.
(n.) A rosary, consisting of a hundred and fifty beads, corresponding to the number of the psalms.
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Rosary
Definition:
(n.) A bed of roses, or place where roses grow.
(n.) A series of prayers (see Note below) arranged to be recited in order, on beads; also, a string of beads by which the prayers are counted.
(n.) A chapelet; a garland; a series or collection, as of beautiful thoughts or of literary selections.
(n.) A coin bearing the figure of a rose, fraudulently circulated in Ireland in the 13th century for a penny.
Example Sentences:
(1) Spiny extrusions are present on many of the neurons, arranged either as varicosities giving a rosary feature or clumped in small groups over the dendritic processes; these are absent at the level of the soma.
(2) Adrenal insufficiency as a complication of antiphospholipid syndrome is reviewed, and a useful physical sign, the acromegalic rosary, rediscovered.
(3) When he wouldn't relent, she draped him with a white rosary for safe passage.
(4) During an operation 7 cm long string like rosary was removed.
(5) Volunteer, Our Lady of the Rosary Primary School, Bristol.
(6) Nineteen patients had repetitive, nonlumen-obliterating, nonperistaltic (tertiary) contractions, six had corkscrew esophagus, and 10 had forceful, lumen-obliterating simultaneous contractions (rosary bead esophagus).
(7) Their happiness is irrational and interesting, because it is twin to the fury some express, so personally, towards abortion that they loiter outside family planning clinics with rosaries, believing that the aborting mother is depriving the world of something that comforts it, even if they will never know it; a prayer, in fact.
(8) A new type of vesicles with a marginal, rosary-like arrangement of particles was observed associated with masses of electron-dense particles.
(9) The Vatican's daily newspaper reported that each diver descending to the ship was carrying a rosary blessed by Pope Francis.
(10) Abdullah addressed the press wearing a western suit with a purple tie and pocket square – in contrast to Ghani who wore a traditional white shalwar khameez and thumbed a rosary, a sartorial nod to his Pashtun supporters.
(11) While a rowdy, at times almost carnivalesque protest took place alongside them, the anti-abortion protesters stood or kneeled and prayed quietly, some clutching rosary beads.
(12) Symptoms were similar in the majority of them: irritability, skin haemorrhages, swollen gums, scorbutic rosary, swelling and tenderness lower limbs.
(13) Much has been made of their harassment techniques that range from the insidious (bursting into hymn as tearful women emerge from the clinics, giving out plastic rosary beads in powder pink or baby blue at the door) to the mendacious (leaflets disguised as NHS literature that address the reader as "Mum" and speak of "not being able to look your future children in the eye").
(14) In his autobiography, 14 Minutes – a reference to the time he was clinically dead in 2007 after a massive heart attack – he talks about how, when he ran, he would focus on the mystery of the rosary and Jesus’s life.
(15) We all know that content is king: if you want, say, Test Match Special or the latest grime, you will put up with mediocre sound quality rather than listen to Biber's Rosary Sonatas in stunning stereo, or (in my case) the reverse.
(16) It made a strange chorus: on the one side, a small crowd of Catholics, intoning the rosary and singing Ave Maria, while, a few metres away, a noisy gathering of campaigners banged drums, blew whistles and chanted slogans.
(17) A postcontrast CT scan at the level of the gallbladder body demonstrated the characteristic rosary sign.
(18) Images of the apartment interior show the bodies lying on floors covered in bullet shells and surrounded by rosaries and the images of Catholic saints.
(19) Get your rosaries off my ovaries, as we used to say.
(20) Chatsworth House is lending an object that bears witness to the religious upheaval of her father's reign, the rosary beads once owned by Henry - once ubiquitous objects, which in later years would come to be seen as dangerously heretical.