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ro⋅sa⋅ry

  [roh-zuh-ree]
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–noun, plural -ries.
1. Roman Catholic Church.
a. a series of prayers, usually consisting of 15 decades of aves, each decade being preceded by a paternoster and followed by a Gloria Patri, one of the mysteries or events in the life of Christ or the Virgin Mary being recalled at each decade.
b. a string of beads used for counting these prayers during their recitation.
c. a similar string of beads consisting of five decades.
2. (among other religious bodies) a string of beads similarly used in praying.
3. a rose garden or a bed of roses.
Origin:
1350–1400 for earlier sense; 1400–50 for sense “rose garden”; 1540–50 for def. 1; ME rosarie < ML rosārium, in all current senses, L: rose garden, equiv. to ros(a) rose 1 + -ārium -ary
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ro·sa·ry   (rō'zə-rē)   
n.   pl. ro·sa·ries

  1. Roman Catholic Church

    1. 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.

    2. One of these sets of decades.

    3. 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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Cultural Dictionary

rosary

A set of prayers common in the Roman Catholic Church, said during meditation on events in the lives of Jesus and of Mary, the mother of Jesus. A rosary is also the string of beads that the worshiper uses to count the prayers.

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Word Origin & History

rosary 
c.1440, "rose garden," from L. rosarium "rose garden," from neut. of rosarius "of roses," from rosa "rose" (see rose). The sense of "series of prayers" is 1547, from M.Fr. rosaire, a figurative use of the word meaning "rose garden," on the notion of a "garden" of prayers. This embodies the medieval conceit of comparing collections to bouquets (cf. anthology and M.L. hortulus animæ, "prayerbook," lit. "little garden of the soul"). Sense transf. 1597 to the strings of beads used as a memory aid in reciting the rosary.
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: ro·sa·ry
Pronunciation: 'rOz-(&-)rE
Function: noun
Inflected Form: plural -ries
: BEADING
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rosary ro·sa·ry (rō'zə-rē)
n.
An arrangement or structure that is beadlike in appearance.

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