Rosary Definition

rōzə-rē
rosaries
noun
rosaries
A string of beads, consisting typically of one short set followed by a loop of five (sometimes fifteen) full sets of beads (there are one large bead and ten small beads in each full set), used to keep count as one prays: the Apostle's Creed is said at the beginning; at each large bead an Our Father; at each small one, a Hail Mary; at the end of each set, the lesser doxology.
Webster's New World
One of these sets of decades.
American Heritage
This group of prayers.
Webster's New World
A string of beads of 5 or 15 decades on which these prayers are counted.
American Heritage
Any string of beads used in praying.
Webster's New World
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rosary
Plural:
rosaries

Origin of Rosary

  • Middle English rose garden from Medieval Latin rosārium rose garden, rosary from Latin rose garden from neuter of rosārius of roses from rosa rose

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Rosary Sentence Examples

  • Other encyclicals, such as those on Christian marriage (Arcanum divinae sapientiae, 10th February 1880), on the Rosary (Supremi apostolatus oficii, 1st September 1883, and Superiore anno, 5th September 1898), and on Freemasonry (Humanism genus, 20th April 1884), dealt with subjects on which his predecessor had been accustomed to pronounce allocutions, and were on similar lines.

  • Whatever may have been the origin of the rosary, the Dominicans did much to propagate the devotion.

  • This has been arranged by the confraternity of the Rosary.

  • They also usually wear, like all Vaishnavas, a necklace of tulasi, or basil wood, and a rosary of seeds of the same shrub or of the lotus.

  • In this sect, children are solemnly admitted to full membership at the early age of four, and even two, years of age, when a rosary, or necklace, of 108 beads of basil (tulsi) wood is passed round their necks, and they are taught the use of the octo-syllabic formula Sri-Krishnah saranam mama, " Holy Krishna is my refuge."

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