rosaryn.
/ˈrəʊz(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈroʊz(ə)ri/ 1. historical. A coin made in imitation of the English silver penny of Edward I (1272–1307) by European mints, mostly in the Low Countries, the bust on the obverse portraying a chaplet or garland around the head (often featuring roses). Cf. pollard n.1These coins were intended to replace English pennies which were being used outside England, and as popular international trading coins, rather than to subvert the English coinage. They did, however, undercut the profits of the King’s mints and diluted the English currency. They were declared illegal by Edward I in 1299.
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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > false coin > [noun] > specific
crockard1300
lushburg1346
pollarda1387
rosarya1387
eagle1577
Leonine1577
morgan1659
rap1724
mitre1749
Paduan1770
Bungtown copper or cent1787
rap halfpenny1787
stampee1795
Jack1851
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1882) VIII. 289 (MED) Kyng Edward dampned sodeynliche fals money þat was slyliche i-brouȝt up: men cleped þe money pollardes, crocardes, and rosaries [L. rosarios], and were putte forþ litel and litel and priveliche in stede of sterlynges.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. lxxiiv He sodeynly dampned certayne Coynes of Money called Pollardes, Gozardes, and Rosaries.
1614 W. Camden Remaines (rev. ed.) 205 Afterward Crokards and Pollards were decried downe to an halfe penny, Rosaries, Stepings and Staldings forbidden.
1749 J. Simon Ess. Irish Coins 15 (note) These..foreign coins, called Mitres, Lionines, Rosaries,..&c. from the stamp or figures impressed on them, were privately brought from..beyond the seas, and uttered here for pennies.
1851 Numismatic Dict. in I. S. Homans Banker's Common-place Bk. 187 Rosarie, a base coin, perhaps Abbey piece.
1917 Modern Philol. 14 183 Rosary, counterfeit coin of base metal, illegally introduced into England in the reign of Edward I.
2. With capital initial. (The name of) a treatise on alchemy, the Rosarium philosophorum (‘Rosary of the philosophers’), commonly attributed to Arnaldus de Villa Nova (c1235–1311).
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the world > matter > alchemy > alchemical treatises or works > [noun]
rosaryc1405
accurtation?c1570
smaragdine table1597
c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Canon's Yeoman's Tale (Ellesmere) (1875) G. §4. l. 1429 Lo thus seith Arnold of the newe toun As his Rosarie maketh mencioun..Ther may no man Mercurie mortifie But it be with his brother knowlechyng.
1623 R. N. E. tr. G. B. Agnello Expos. i, in tr. Reuelation Secret Spirit 25 Arnoldus de villa noua, in his Rosary saith, Therfore it behoueth the searcher of this Science to be of a constant will in worke.
1680 J. F. Houpreght tr. Bernardus Trevisanus in Aurifontina Chymica 261 Arnoldus de Villa Nova hath said, in a Book which he called his Rosary, that raw Mercury..by Sublimation may be made hot and dry.
1723 tr. A.-T. Limojon de Saint-Didier Hermetical Triumph 13 You may read in the Rosary what I have told you here.
1753 P. Shaw tr. H. Boerhaave New Method Chem. (ed. 3) I. 31 Arnoldus de Villa Nova lived in the thirteenth century..and wrote, 1. Rosarium. The Rosary.
1909 J. Yarker Arcane Schools vi. 204 Traces of an organised body are to be found in the Rosary of Arnold de Villanova, circa 1230.
1968 Speculum 43 648 In the proemium of his Rosary Arnald announces the division of that treatise into a Theorica and a Practica.
3. † b. figurative. A thing or place resembling a rose garden in being beautiful, pleasant, restorative, etc. Obsolete.With use in alchemical works (see quots. 1671, 1715) cf. sense 2.
a. A piece of ground set apart for the cultivation of roses; a rose garden, a rosarium. Also: a rose bed.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden > [noun] > flower-garden > rose garden
rosaire?1440
rosary?1440
rose yard?c1475
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rosery1745
rosiery1791
rosarium1822
tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) iv. 126 (MED) Soone in this mone ek make vp thi rosary [L. rosaria].
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Iii/1 A Rosarie, rosarium.
1608 G. Markham & L. Machin Dumbe Knight iv. sig. H4 What is there a Hercules that dare to touch, Or enter the Hesperian Rosaries?
1657 G. Thornley tr. Longus Daphnis & Chloe 182 Alas, the Rosaries, how are they broken down!
1792 J. Byng Diary 27 May in Torrington Diaries (1936) III. 8 My wishes would be to form a curious rosary; to observe the growth of curious grasses, and of new trees.
1815 ‘J. Mathers’ Hist. Mr. John Decastro & Brother Bat iv. 37 Coming to the rosary,..I sat down upon the seat.
1822 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Gardening §6555 In rosaries commonly but one plant of a sort is introduced, and the varieties which most resemble each other are placed together.
1869 S. R. Hole Bk. Roses 44 Men of moderate means may make or maintain a Rosary at a very moderate expense.
1973 Garden Hist. 1 42 There was a rosary, a summer garden surrounded by a trellis walk..and a greenhouse heated by hot water.
1999 M. Laird Flowering of Landscape Garden 200 He [sc. Thomas Wright] was to produce a detailed drawing of a rosary for William Wildman..at Beckett Park in Berkshire.
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c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1905) II. 325 (MED) He was hedid & cristend in his awn blude & broght vnto þe rosary of paradyce.
1649 F. Roberts Clavis Bibliorum (ed. 2) 87 This book is a Theater of Gods works. A sweet field and Rosary of promises.
1671 J. Webster Metallographia 168 This is the key of all their secrets, and onely can open the door into the Philosophers Rosary.
1715 Enq. Hermetick Art III. 35 The Key..is the Root and Foundation of the Rosary, or Garden of Roses.
1785 J. Pinkerton Lett. of Lit. li. 432 The two great works of Musladin Sadi, the Orchard, and the Rosary, or Flower Garden, as they are quaintly intitled.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > rose and allied flowers > rose > rose-bush
roseOE
rosierc1300
rose treec1350
rosary1523
rosebush1563
rose-briar1598
rose vine1827
1523 J. Skelton Goodly Garlande of Laurell 979 The ruddy rosary, The souerayne rosemary, The praty strawbery.
1606 True Relation Proc. against Garnet sig. Dd3 The sweetest and the fairest blossome that euer budded, either out of the white, or the red Rosary.
1634 J. Bidle tr. Virgil Bucolicks v. sig. B3 As Pliant Osiars, to Pale Olive Trees; Low Lavander, to Purple Rosaries.
1882 D. B. W. Sladen Frithjof & Ingeborg 13 Magnolia blossoms, and passion flowers, And attar of Indian rosaries.
5. Frequently with capital initial. Used in the title of a book of devotion, formerly frequently one incorporating the rosary (in sense 6a).
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society > faith > artefacts > book (general) > other books > [noun] > devotional book
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Book of Hours1709
society > faith > artefacts > book (general) > service book (general) > [noun] > containing directions for worship > containing rosary
rosary1525
1525 (title) Here begynneth the Rosarye of our lady in englysshe with many goodly petycions dyrect to her.
1526 W. Bonde Rosary sig. A Here begynneth the Rosary of our Sauyour Jesu, gyueng thankes and prayse to his holy name, by maner of meditacion & prayer.
1533 (title) The Mystik sweet Rosary of the faythful soule: garnished rownde aboute..with fressh fragraunt flowers.
1583 in E. Arber Transcript Reg. Company of Stationers 1554–1640 (1875) II. 196b Receaued of him [sc. John Charlewood] for his licence to ymprint The Rosarie of christian Prayers..vjd.
1602 J. Rhodes Answere Romish Rime To Rdr. sig. A2 Some good English bookes, and some two or three English Pamphlets of another stampe and nature, viz. A Popish Rosary of prayers, and diuers Popish pictures in it, circled about with the forme of Beads.
1672 J. Walton Answer Calumnies Dr. More iv. 65 He plays at small game and serves in the gleanings of his own observation, picked up here and there, out of several Books of devotion; as the Rosary of our Lady, the Mary Psalter, and others.
1886 M. Blundell (title) The Little Rosary of the Sacred Heart. Containing short meditations..especially adapted for children.
1916 (title) God's army: a rosary of intercession for the war and the National Mission of Repentance and Hope.
1997 A. K. Saran (title) On the intellectual vocation: a rosary of edifying texts with an analytical-elucidatory essay.
6. Originally and chiefly Roman Catholic Church.
a. A devotion in which traditionally fifteen episodes relating to the life of Christ (‘mysteries’) are contemplated, for each of which ten Hail Marys are recited, preceded by an Our Father and followed by a ‘Glory be to the Father’ (see Gloria n. 1); (also) †a book containing this (obsolete); cf. sense 5. Now more commonly: a shorter form of the devotion covering a group of five of the mysteries.The practice of the devotion is normally assisted by the use of a string of beads (see sense 7a).The mysteries traditionally commemorated in the rosary are in three groups of five: the ‘joyful mysteries’, relating to the annunciation, birth, and early life of Christ, the ‘sorrowful mysteries’, relating to the Passion, and the ‘glorious mysteries’, relating to Christ's resurrection. In 2002, Pope John Paul II, in his Apostolic Letter on the rosary, Rosarium Virginis Mariae, announced the addition of a fourth group, the ‘mysteries of light’ or ‘luminous mysteries’, relating to the public ministry of Christ. There are also other forms of the devotion, such as that of St Bridget, of the Seven Dolours, etc.
(a) With postmodifying phrase, as the Rosary of Our Lady, etc.
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society > faith > worship > prayer > kinds of prayer > [noun] > using the rosary
Our Lady's psalter1389
Our Lady psaltera1450
rosary1531
society > faith > artefacts > book (general) > other books > [noun] > prayer book > containing the rosary
Our Lady's psalter1389
the Rosary of Our Lady1531
1531 Prymer of Salysbury Use Contents The rosary of our lady.
1536 R. Taverner tr. P. Melanchthon Apol. sig. Y, in Confessyon Fayth Germaynes The freers of Dominikes ordre, haue made a Rosary of the blessed virgin Marie, which is nothing els but a longe paterynge.
1584 R. Scot Disc. Diuels & Spirits xxvi, in Discouerie Witchcraft 530 An example taken out of the Rosarie of our Ladie, in which booke doo remaine..ninetie and eight examples to this effect.
c1613 ( in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) 50 I send them a pauper of the Rosery of our Lady of Coleyn, and I have registered your name with both my Ladis names, as the pauper expresses.
1635 A. Stafford Femall Glory 235 The Sodalitie of the Rosary of this our blessed Lady.
1669 (title) The method of saying the Rosary of Our Blessed Lady.
1755 G. Flinton in tr. S. Verepaeus Choice Coll. Prayers 279 (heading) The Method of Saying the Rosary of our Blessed Lady.
1852 M. Bridges Passion of Jesus Pref. 7 The subjects treated in the following pages are the Five Dolorous or Sorrowful Mysteries, which constitute the second Chaplet, or division of the Rosary of Our Blessed Lady;—in other words, the Passion of Jesus!
1907 Rosary Mag. Jan. 116/1 There is a means of efficaciously concentrating the attention on God and eternal truths, and this means is the Rosary of Our Blessed Lady.
1995 R. Boyer Lives of Bigamists i. 29 He..ordered that on each Saturday for a year he recite ‘the rosary of our Lady the Virgin Mary’.
(b) Without postmodifying phrase.
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1536 R. Taverner tr. P. Melanchthon Confessyon Fayth Germaynes f. 10 v Chyldishe, and vnnecessary warkes, as certeyne holy dayes.., pylgrymages, worshippynges of sayntes, rosaries, entringe into relygion, and such other lyke.
1547 Certain Serm. or Homilies sig. Eij Let vs reherse som other kindes of papistical supersticions and abuses, as of beades, of lady psalters and rosaries.
1570 B. Googe tr. T. Kirchmeyer Popish Kingdome iii. f. 36v Used commonly As most of weight, the Rosaries do flourish wondrously.
1605–6 Act 3 Jas. I c. 5 §24 No person shall bring from beyond Seas..any Popish Primers, Ladies Psalters, Manuels, Rosaries.
1679 J. Sharp Serm. St. Margarets 28 You may entertain yourselves with saying over your Rosary..and other Private Prayers.
1715 R. Bentley Serm. Popery 27 Nothing but Massbooks and Rosaries,..dry Postills and fabulous Legends.
1792 J. Townsend Journey Spain (ed. 2) II. 17 We met twelve fine made fellows who came from Navarre singing the rosary.
1843 W. Carleton Traits & Stories Irish Peasantry (new ed.) I. 240 I..signalized myself frequently by taking the lead in a rosary.
1884 Tablet 11 Oct. 591/1 St. Dominic's Priory..seems to be more and more recognised as the centre of the devotion of the Rosary.
1914 T. S. Eliot Let. 8 Sept. (1988) I. 55 A dreadful old woman, her skirt trailing on the street, sings ‘the Rosary’ in front, and secures several pennies from windows and the housemaid resumes her conversation at the area gate.
1964 F. O'Connor Let. 5 June in Habit of Being (1979) 582 I said the rosary for you last night & actually managed to stay awake through all 5 decades.
2007 A. Enright Gathering (2008) x. 60 Liam had to stiff-arm me up past the neighbours reciting the rosary on the stairs.
(c) Usually without article: = rosary service n. at Compounds 3.
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1898 Mrs. H. Ward Helbeck II. iv. i. 83 The morning and evening prayers.., the two Masses on Sunday morning, Rosary and Benediction in the evening, and the many occasional services.
1976 Billings (Montana) Gaz. 24 June 14- a/4 Rosary will be at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Michelotti-Sawyers Mortuary.
1994 Pacific Daily News (Agana, Guam) 18 Feb. 53/2 Rosary for Ignacio Quitugua Meno..is being said daily at noon and nightly at 8 at his residence.
b. In extended use. Cf. litany n. 2.
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the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > [noun] > a series or succession
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1604 B. Jonson Particular Entertainm. at Althrope 169 in His Pt. Royall Entertainem. As the Rosary of kisses, With the oath that neuer misses.
1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης i. 13 To throw contempt..upon this his Idoliz'd Book, and the whole rosarie of his Prayers.
a1862 F. J. O'Brien Poems & Stories (1881) 32 In fervent litanies to her I pray, And tell my love in rosaries of thought.
1992 New Yorker 24 Feb. 60/1 I have heard some of them recount their lives, a rosary of stories, on different occasions, and noticed how they vary with the telling.
2001 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Feb. 76/3 In the past a prospective pundit could pass inspection by mouthing a rosary of political clichés.
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a. Originally and chiefly Roman Catholic Church. A string of a hundred and sixty-five beads divided into fifteen sets (each having ten small beads and one large bead), used for keeping count in the recital of the rosary or a similar devotion; (now esp.) a similar string of fifty-five beads having five sets of ten smaller beads, used in the shorter form of devotion (occasionally more fully the lesser rosary). The small beads represent Hail Marys and the large ones Our Fathers and Glory Bes.
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society > faith > artefacts > implement (general) > rosary > [noun]
rosary1548
bead-roll1598
rosario1622
prayer bead1630
fifteen1688
paternoster1870
1548 W. Patten Exped. Scotl. Pref. c ivv Pardon Beades, Tanthonie belles, Tauthrie laces, Rosaries, Collets.
1598 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 3 Last Bks. vi. ii. 100 When at the Corner-crosse thou did'st him meet, Tumbling his Rosaries hanging at his belt.
a1627 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Spanish Gipsie (1653) ii. sig. C2v Take any thing.., Purses, Knives, Handkerchers, Rosaries, Tweezes, any toy.
1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. i. 1496 Beads, pictures, rosaries, and pixes.
1741 J. Ozell tr. P. de B. de Brantôme Spanish Rhodomontades 175 A Death's Head at the End of a Gold or Diamond Rosary.
1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho III. vi. 191 I leave it to cowards like thee, to carry rosaries.
1832 W. Irving Alhambra II. 223 Information having been carried..of the crosses and rosaries, and other reliques contained in the bag.
1858 tr. Life of Xavier 13 Each one wore his rosary hanging round his neck.
1920 Proc. U.S. National Mus. 1919 55 631 The rosary most in use, however, consists of five decades for the aves and five larger beads for the paters, called the ‘lesser rosary’. Otherwise it is arranged in the same way and recited in the same manner and order as the ‘greater’ or ‘full’ rosary. The entire devotion of 15 decades may be said on it by counting it three times.
1944 N.Y. Times 23 June 7 The Vatican's stocks of rosaries were almost exhausted this afternoon after Pope Pius XII gave away more than 18,000 pairs.
2007 Wall St. Jrnl. 7 Aug. d6/5 The minutest objects..are microcarved northern European rosaries or chaplets (c. 1500), some of ivory, some of burnished boxwood.
b. figurative. Something resembling a rosary in structure or use, esp. a series of things strung together.
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1647 J. Cleveland Poems in Char. London-diurnall (Wing C4662) 25 Like to Don Quixots Rosary of Slaves Strung on a chaine; A Murnivall of Knaves Packt in a Trick.
1763 E. Gibbon Misc. Wks. (1814) V. 387 Unstringing the beads from the rosary of antiquity.
1820 J. Keats Isabella in Lamia & Other Poems 61 Come down,..ere the hot sun count His dewy rosary on the eglantine.
1881 A. J. Duffield tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote II. 46 I came against a rosary or a string of people miserable and unhappy.
1951 N. Marsh Opening Night v. 106 Trying to cheer herself up by telling over her rosary of romantic memories.
1960 S. Becker tr. A. Schwarz-Bart Last of Just (1961) vi. 291 One day Fräulein Blumenthal arrived to visit, leading her rosary of tiny Levys.
2004 Amer. Scholar Winter 94 One's thumb worries the rosary of the other's knuckles, round and round.
c. A string of beads or knotted cord used similarly in other religious traditions.
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society > faith > artefacts > implement (general) > rosary > [noun] > used by non-Christians
rosary1671
comboloio1813
1671 L. Addison W. Barbary ix. 161 The Moors have their Tesserae Precariae, or their Beads, wherewith they number their Prayers. And the whole Corona or Rosary consists of ninety eight, which the Devoti, or Religiously affected, carry always about them.
1777 G. Sharp Tract on Law of Nature 162 (note) They also use their Rosaries, or Strings of Prayer Beads, which the Japanese..have in common with the Christians.
1868 Proc. Geogr. Soc. 15 July 154–5 The Tibetans made use of the rosary and prayer-wheel... The rosary..ought to have 108 beads.
1883 J. Gilmour Among Mongols xvii. 204 Buddhism puts into his hand a rosary.
1910 Encycl. Brit. XII. 431/2 The Turkish practice of carrying a string of beads or rosary (comboloio), which provides an occupation for the hands, is very common.
1946 J. C. Archer Sikhs ix. 228 They used the tilak, wore the janeu, or sacred cord, and the mala, or rosary, like any Hindu.
1961 D. Attwater Christian Churches of East I. 224 The Eastern rosary usually consists of one hundred beads at each of which a metany is made and words equivalent to ‘Lord, have mercy on me, a sinner’ said.
1987 B. Chatwin Songlines xvii. 89 Around his neck there was a Rajneesh rosary.
2004 Slightly Foxed Spring 76 In his youth he was a pundit..carrying theodolites concealed in Buddhist prayer-wheels and Buddhist rosaries with 100 beads to count their paces.
d. Medicine. More fully rachitic rosary, rosary of rickets. The enlarged costochondral junctions of the ribs characteristic of rickets, which look and feel like a line of beads.Cf. rickety rosary n. at rickety adj. Compounds.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders of bones > [noun] > rickets
English disease1609
rickets1634
rachitis1668
ricketiness1673
English sickness1707
innutrition of the bones1796
rosary1872
rickety rosary1873
1872 J. L. Smith Treat. Dis. Infancy & Childhood (ed. 2) 92 Enlargement of the costo-chondral articulations, known as the ‘rachitic rosary’,..is one of the earliest and most reliable signs of rachitis.
1877 F. C. Shattuck & G. K. Sabine tr. J. Orth Compend Diagnosis Pathol. Anat. 105 The portions of the ribs which contain the centres of ossification, are decidedly enlarged and swollen in rickety children, and these swellings, taken all together, form what has been termed the rosary of rickets.
1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. III. 115 The enlargement of the ends of the ribs at the junction with the costal cartilages—the ‘beads’ which collectively form what is called the ‘rosary’—is the earliest of all the bone changes.
1917 C. H. Dunn Pediatrics II. 638 The characteristic rosary of rickets is not seen in chondrodystrophy.
1996 J. Glowacki in C. J. Rosen Osteoporosis i. 13 Cartilaginous ends of the ribs can become protuberant (called the rosary of rickets).
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1559 P. Morwyng tr. C. Gesner Treasure of Euonymus 218 (heading) Of rosaries [L. rosariis], that is to say instruments wherwith a destilled liquor maye be gotten oute of Roses and other medicines.
1678 tr. M. Charas Royal Pharmacopœa iii. i. xi. 16 You may also put into a Rosary of Copper well Tinn'd, the Rose-leaves, whole or bruis'd.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > jewellery worn on the head > [noun] > coronet or circlet
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1651 Bp. J. Taylor Rule & Exercises Holy Dying iii. §1 Christ hath now knit them into Rosaries and Coronets.
1665 Bp. J. Taylor Golden Grove Agenda §1. 47 Every day propound to your self a Rosary or a Chaplet of good Works, to present to God at night.
Compounds
C1. attributive in senses 6, 7, as rosary bead, rosary chain, rosary confraternity, rosary devotion.
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1687 tr. G. Brice New Descr. Paris ii. 47 Some pieces of Ivory wrought in Sculpture, with a good quantity of Rosary-Beads of Agate.
1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 5th Bk. Wks. Pantagr. Prognost. 235 Clergy-Taylors, Wafer-makers, Rosary-makers.
1748 tr. P. Lozano True Relation Earthquake Lima (ed. 2) 271 Rosary Devotion.
1835 Penny Cycl. IV. 78/2 Beads (Rosary Beads) are made of horn, ebony, ivory,..and other materials.
1871–2 (title) The Rosarian; a monthly organ of the Holy Rosary Confraternity.
1873 Catal. Exhib. Jewellery (S. Kensington Mus.) No. 770 Rosary-chain of pearls and diamonds with cross as pendant.
2008 Art Q. Spring 31/2 The alleged ‘patron’ is probably St Dominic himself, shown holding the rosary beads..which he had invented.
C2. † rosary-palm n. Obsolete rare a palm with small hard seeds found in the mountains of Hispaniola, perhaps Prestoea acuminata or P. acuminata var. montana.
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1684 tr. A. O. Exquemelin Bucaniers Amer. i. 33 There be also in Hispaniola four other species of Palms, which are..Palma Espinosa or Prickle-palm, Palma a chapelet or Rosary-palm, [etc.].
rosary pea n. the jequirity, Abrus precatorius, a tropical leguminous plant (family Fabaceae); the red and black seed of this, often used as a bead; cf. prayer bead n. 2.
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1834 Miller's Dict. Gardening, Bot. & Agric. at Abrus Common Rosary Pea (A. precatorius, Willdenow).
1964 Sci. News Let. 24 Oct. 268/3 Rosary peas grow in flat, brown pods on perennial woody vines which can twist and climb on other plants to a height of 20 feet.
1994 Canad. Geographic July 50/3 A person can be killed by just half a milligram of abrin, found in the seed of the rosary pea (Abrus precatorius) which grows in the tropics.
rosary shell n. a shell with a low or rounded spire belonging to any of various marine gastropod molluscs; spec. (a) a shell of any of several genera of top shells (family Trochidae), having a regular pattern of raised knobs; (b) Australian the small black shell of Nerita melanotragus (family Neritidae), used by Bass Strait islanders to make necklaces.
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1854 Synopsis Contents Brit. Mus. (ed. 61) 22 The Top Shells (Trochus) and their allied genera; as the rosary [shell] (Clangulus pharaonicus).
1879 T. C. Just Tasmaniana xi. 59 (table) Nerita atrata... Rosary-shell necklace [printed necelace].
1887 Cassell's Encycl. Dict. VI. 183/2 Rosary-shell,..the genus Monodonta.
1892 T. C. Just Official Hand-bk. Tasmania (ed. 5) 60 The curious rice shell necklaces are various species of Truncatella..and the rosary shell necklaces and bracelets are of the Nerita atrata.
2006 B. F. Chhapgar Marine Life in India xxxv. 167 One of the daintiest shells is the Button shell or Rosary shell Umbonium vestiarium.
2008 Australiana Feb. 33/3 The black rosary shell necklaces became popular after the death of Prince Albert and later Queen Victoria, stimulating a demand for mourning jewellery.
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rosary service n. Roman Catholic Church a service consisting chiefly of the recitation of the rosary, often held as a memorial for a person who has recently died.
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1881 Friends' Rev. 12 Feb. 430/2 In the afternoon at Rosary service he preached against us until compelled to stop from sheer exhaustion.
1946 Calif. Folklore Q. 5 159 The wake that I attended in Butte followed a rosary service.
1978 J. Hyams Pool xvi. 236 The rosary service for Karen was Sunday night.
Rosary Sunday n. Roman Catholic Church the first Sunday in October, dedicated to the observance of the rosary.
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Rosary Sunday1737
1737 J. Clarkson Introd. Devotion Holy Rosary vii. 75 The preaching of the holy Rosary, in the fourth lesson of the canonical-office upon Rosary Sunday.
1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 5 Oct. 10/2 Sunset on Rosary Sunday.
1884 Tablet 11 Oct. 591/1 Rosary Sunday has always been distinguished by a special observance.
1986 H. J. van Nuis Guido Gezelle v. 66 The Flemish custom of praying a special rosary on Rosary Sunday (October), in memory of Christ's thirty-three years on earth.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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