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▪ I. paternoster, n.|ˈpætəˈnɒstə(r)|
Also 6 -nostre.
[a. L. pater noster ‘our Father’, the first two words of the Lord's Prayer in Latin; in OF. paternostre (11th c.), patrenostre (12th c.), later patenostre, mod.F. patenôtre in same uses.]
1. a. The Lord's Prayer, esp. in the Latin version.
a1000Sal. & Sat. 39 (Gr.) Ðæt ᵹe-palmtwiᵹede Pater Noster heofonas ontyneð. c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 25 Þu singest þe salm þat is cleped paternoster. 1389in Eng. Gilds (1870) 20 Euery brother & sister shul seyn..xx. sythes ye pater noster. c1450Bk. Curtasye 145 in Babees Bk. 303 Þy pater noster he wille þe teche. 1531Tindale Exp. 1 John (1537) 16 Christ teacheth us to praye in oure Pater noster. 1642Fuller Holy & Prof. St. iv. xiv. 309 Queen Marie, who got the crown by Our Father, and held it by Pater noster. 1712Arbuthnot John Bull iii. ii, Peg had taken a fancy not to say her Paternoster. 1803Southey Alderman's Funeral, The multiplication-table was his Creed, His Pater-noster, and his Decalogue. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. II. xxx. 248 She could repeat the paternoster fluently enough, but not quite correctly.
fig.1858O. W. Holmes Aut. Breakf.-t. x. (1891) 228 Look at Nature. She never wearies of saying over her floral pater-noster.
b. A repetition or recital of this as an act of worship. † the space of a paternoster (obs.): = paternoster-while: see 6.
c1300Havelok 2997 Seye a pater-noster stille, For him þat haueth þe rym[e] maked. 1362Langl. P. Pl. A. xi. 302 Souteris & seweris suche lewide iottis Percen wiþ a pater noster þe paleis of heuene. c1450Mirour Saluacioun 4275 And o pater noster more weygh in swete devocyonne Than a savtrere with sleuth. 1561Hollybush Hom. Apoth. 3 Let it so abyde the space of halfe a Pater-noster. 1590Spenser F.Q. i. iii. 13 Nine hundred Pater nosters every day, And thrise nine hundred Aves she was wont to say. 1681Grew Musæum i. 175 The Worm will die within the space of a Pater Noster. 1756–7tr. Keysler's Trav. (1760) I. 471 They do not play here for money, but for ave-maria's, pater-noster's, and other prayers. 1856J. H. Newman Callista (1885) 330 He said out his seven pater nosters as he walked.
2. transf.
a. Any form of words repeated or muttered by way of a prayer, imprecation, or charm. black p., white p., names given to specific charms. devil's p., a murmured or muttered imprecation; a low murmuring or grumbling to oneself. ape's p., a ‘dithering’ or chattering with the teeth: see ape n. 6.
c1386Chaucer Miller's T. 299 Ihesu Crist and seint Benedight Blesse this hous from euery wikked wight Ffor nyghtes uerye, the white pater noster. ― Pars. T. ⁋434 Yet wol they seyn harm and grucche and murmure priuely for verray despit, whiche wordes men clepen the deueles Pater noster. 1530Palsgr. 642/1, I murmure, I make a noyse, I bydde the dyuels Pater noster. 1546J. Heywood Prov. (1867) 32 Pattryng the diuels Pater noster to hir selfe. 1610J. White Way True Church To Rdr. §13. c ij, White Pater noster, Saint Peters brother..Open heauen yates, and steike hell yates: And let euery crysom child creepe to it owne mother: White Pater noster, Amen. 1687Congreve Old Bach. iv. vi, A prayer-book! Ay, this is the devil's pater-noster. 1851Longfellow Gold. Leg. ii. ii, This is the Black Pater-noster... Open, open, hell's gates! Shut, shut, heaven's gates! All the devils in the air The stronger be, that hear the Black Prayer. 1880‘Ouida’ Moths v, Noblesse oblige,..that paternoster of princes.
b. A long nonsensical or tedious recital or utterance; a ‘homily’ or ‘preachment’; a prating.
1663Dryden Wild Gallant i. ii, Hold your prating, Frances; or I'll put you out of your Pater Nosters, with a sorrow to you. 1822Galt Provost xxxi. (1868) 94 When the bailie had made an end of his paternoster.
3. a. A special bead in a rosary indicating that a paternoster is to be said, usually occurring every eleventh bead and of different size or material from the rest. b. Also applied to the whole rosary.
c1250Lutel Soth. Serm. 67 in O.E. Misc. 190 Atom [= at home] his hire pater noster biloken in hire teye. c1400Mandeville (1839) xviii. 197 The Kyng..hathe abouten his Nekke 300 Perles oryent, gode and grete, and knotted, as Pater Nostres here of Amber. 1463Bury Wills (Camden) 36 A peyre of bedys with pater nostris of gold, and on eche syde of the pater nostris a bede of coral, and the Aue Maryes of colour aftir marbil. 1615tr. De Monfart's Surv. E. Ind. 28 A certaine kind of wood called Calamba: for which the Portugalls pay 100. crownes a pound, to make Pater-Nosters with. 1714Fr. Bk. of Rates 59 Pater-Nosters woodden. 1870Froude Hist. Eng. xxxiv. XII. 334 In her hand she held a crucifix of ivory, and a number of jewelled pater⁓nosters was attached to her girdle.
4. Applied to things resembling a rosary:
a. in Fishing, = paternoster-line: see 6.
1851Kingsley Yeast iii, Here's your gudgeons and minnows, sir,..and here's that paternoster as you gave me to rig up. 1861H. Kingsley Ravenshoe lxiv, He..saw, through the osiers, the hoary old profligate with his paternoster pulling the perch out as fast as he could put his line in. 1894Blackw. Mag. Sept. 427/1 Fishing with an ordinary two-hook paternoster will catch many more fish.
b. Arch. A row of bead-like ornaments.
In Chambers' Cycl. from Fr., and repeated in some later works, but app. never in Eng. use.
1727–41Chambers Cycl. s.v., Pater-nosters, in architecture; a sort of ornaments cut in form of beads, either round, or oval; used on baguettes, astragals, etc. 1823P. Nicholson Pract. Build. 589. 1842–76 in Gwilt Archit. (ed. 7) Gloss.
c. A lift consisting of a succession of doorless compartments on an endless chain in continuous slow motion that allows entry at any time. Also paternoster lift.
1912Engineering Index XXXI. 72/2 The ‘Paternoster’ continuous elevator (Ascensori a movimento continuo, o ascensori ‘Paternoster’). U. Quintavalle. An endless chain elevator with several compartments... L'Industria—Mar. 10 1912. 1937Discovery Dec. 388/2 Lifts and conveyors of the ‘Paternoster’ type have been installed. 1971R. Lewis Error of Judgment vi. 205 He and the victim of his attack were on a small square landing at the end of the corridor and directly in front of the paternosters. 1973Times 24 Dec. 4/3 Instead of orthodox lifts, the architects..use ‘paternosters’, continually moving, doorless two-person lifts which reduce waiting. 1977Times 19 Feb. 2/3 Passenger-carrying ‘paternoster’ lifts consisting of continuous chains of small cars.
†5. paternoster of flax: see quots. Obs.
1658N. Riding Rec. VI. 14 [A woman presented for stealing three pounds of] paternoster flacks. 1688R. Holme Armoury iii. 106/2 Pater Noster, ten handfulls [of flax] in a strick, is 2 pounds.
6. attrib. and Comb., as paternoster-maker, paternoster-man, paternoster-monger, paternoster-ring; paternoster lake Physical Geogr., each of a line of lakes in a glaciated valley; paternoster-line, a line used in fishing, to which hooks or groups of hooks are attached at intervals, and also weights to sink it; paternoster-pea, the seed of jequirity (Abrus precatorius), often used as beads; paternoster-pump, a chain-pump: see quot.; paternoster-tackle, the tackle appertaining to a paternoster-line; paternoster-wheel, ‘a water-raising device having a number of buckets on a chain’ (Knight Dict. Mech. 1875); paternoster-while, the time it takes to say a paternoster.
1942C. A. Cotton Climatic Accidents in Landscape-Making xix. 256 If the step-tread basins are occupied by lakes..these may follow one another like beads upon a string—‘*paternoster lakes’. 1968R. W. Fairbridge Encycl. Geomorphol. 468/2 Since the floor of a glaciated valley is often undulating..or with a step-like rock floor.., it is sometimes marked by a succession of lakes..rather fancifully named paternoster lakes.
1676Cotton Walton's Angler xvi. (Cassell) 153 [Bleak] may be caught with a *Paternoster line: that is, six or eight very small hooks tied along the line, one half a foot above the other. 1718Jacob Compl. Sportsman 148. 1869 Routledge's Ev. Boy's Ann. 388 A paternoster line, with a good-sized bullet above the highest hook.
1598Stow Surv. 274 (Pater Noster Rowe) There dwelled also, turners of Beades, and they were called *Pater Noster makers.
1681T. Flatman Heraclitus Ridens No. 26 (1713) I. 172, I believe e'er long plotting..will be no Treason in a *Pater-noster Man.
1654Whitlock Zootomia 349 Praiers..far more prevalent, than those Verball *Pater-noster-Mongers utter over a Bead⁓roule.
1874Knight Dict. Mech. 520/1 (Chain-pump) When packed pistons are used, they are termed *paternoster pumps, from the resemblance of the chain and buttons to the rosary.
1502Will of Bradmere (Somerset Ho.), A *Pater noster ryng with a diamonde.
1894Blackw. Mag. Sept. 427/2 Two rods, on both of which was light *paternoster tackle.
1362Langl. P. Pl. A. v. 192 He pissede a potel In a *pater-noster while. 1448Paston Lett. I. 74 Al thys was don, as men say, in a Pater Noster wyle. 1600J. Partridge Treas. Hid. Secrets xxvii, Let them seeth three or four Pater noster whiles. a1658A. Farindon Serm. (1849) IV. 241 We may do it in a Pater-noster-while. 1888Stevenson Black Arrow 84 As though the bearer had run for a pater-noster-while.
▪ II. paternoster, v.|ˌpætəˈnɒstə(r)|
[f. prec. 4 a.]
intr. To fish with a paternoster-line. So paternostering vbl. n.
1859F. Francis Newton Dograne (1888) 19 An adept in trolling, paternostering, fly-fishing. 1867― Angling iii. (1880) 96 Paternostering..is a very skilful..branch of angling. 1891Field 21 Nov. 774/2 He paternostered while I spun. |