单词 | rosary |
释义 | ro·sa·ry ![]() n. pl. ro·sa·ries 1. Roman Catholic Church a. A form of devotion to the Virgin Mary, chiefly consisting of three sets of five decades each of the Hail Mary, each decade preceded by the Lord's Prayer and ending with a doxology. b. One of these sets of decades. c. A string of beads of 5 or 15 decades on which these prayers are counted. 2. Similar beads used by other religious groups. [Middle English, rose garden, from Medieval Latin rosārium, rose garden, rosary, from Latin, rose garden, from neuter of rosārius, of roses, from rosa, rose.] |
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