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MADONNA |
Virgin Mary |
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MARIOLATER |
One who worships the Virgin Mary. |
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MARIOLATRY |
The worship of the Virgin Mary. |
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DEIPAROUS |
Bearing or bringing forth a god; -- said of the Virgin
Mary. |
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LADY |
The day of the annunciation of the Virgin Mary, March 25. See
Annunciation. |
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ASSUMPTION |
A festival in honor of the ascent of the Virgin Mary
into heaven. |
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ANNUNCIATION |
The announcement of the incarnation, made by the
angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary. |
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MARIAN |
Pertaining to the Virgin Mary, or sometimes to Mary, Queen
of England, daughter of Henry VIII. |
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PIETA |
A representation of the dead Christ, attended by the Virgin
Mary or by holy women and angels. |
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AVE MARY |
A salutation and prayer to the Virgin Mary, as mother of
God; -- used in the Roman Catholic church. |
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HYPERDULIA |
Veneration or worship given to the Virgin Mary as the
most exalted of mere creatures; higher veneration than dulia. |
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LADYKIN |
A little lady; -- applied by the writers of Queen
Elizabeth's time, in the abbreviated form Lakin, to the Virgin Mary. |
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MAGNIFICAT |
The song of the Virgin Mary, Luke i. 46; -- so called
because it commences with this word in the Vulgate. |
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MARRY |
Indeed ! in truth ! -- a term of asseveration said to
have been derived from the practice of swearing by the Virgin Mary. |
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PRIMER |
Originally, a small prayer book for church service,
containing the little office of the Virgin Mary; also, a work of
elementary religious instruction. |
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VISITATION |
A festival in honor of the visit of the Virgin Mary to
Elisabeth, mother of John the Baptist, celebrated on the second of
July. |
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CANDLEMAS |
The second day of February, on which is celebrated the
feast of the Purification of the Virgin Mary; -- so called because the
candles for the a... |
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PAX |
A tablet or board, on which is a representation of Christ, of
the Virgin Mary, or of some saint and which, in the Mass, was kissed by
the pries... |
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STABAT MATER |
A celebrated Latin hymn, beginning with these words,
commemorating the sorrows of the mother of our Lord at the foot of the
cross. It is read i... |
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SOCINIANISM |
The tenets or doctrines of Faustus Socinus, an Italian
theologian of the sixteenth century, who denied the Trinity, the deity
of Christ, the pe... |