A string of beads used in counting prayers of the Roman Catholic Rosary

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• rosary — noun (plural ries) Etymology: Medieval Latin rosarium, from Latin, rose garden, from neuter of rosarius of roses, from rosa rose Date: 1547 1. often capitalized a Roman Catholic devotion consisting of meditation on usually five sacred mysteries… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• Rosary — This article is about the Catholic Marian devotion. For other forms of the Christian rosary, see Rosary based prayers. For prayer beads in other religions, see Prayer beads. Roman Catholic Mariology A series of articles on Rosary Blesse …   Wikipedia

• rosary — /roh zeuh ree/, n., pl. rosaries. 1. Rom. Cath. Ch. 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 …   Universalium

• rosary — /ˈroʊzəri / (say rohzuhree) noun (plural rosaries) 1. Roman Catholic Church a. a series of prayers consisting (in the usual form) of fifteen or twenty decades of Ave Marias, each decade being preceded by a paternoster and followed by a gloria… …  

• rosary — noun /ˈroʊzəri/ a) A series of Roman Catholic prayers, usually made up of five, fifteen, or twenty decades of Hail Marys, each decade beginning with Our Father and ending with a Gloria Be to the Father. Other prayers are also incorporated into… …   Wiktionary

• The Rosary —     The Rosary     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Rosary     I. IN THE WESTERN CHURCH      The Rosary , says the Roman Breviary, is a certain form of prayer wherein we say fifteen decades or tens of Hail Marys with an Our Father between each ten,… …   Catholic encyclopedia

• rosary — [14] Rosary comes from Latin rosārium ‘rose garden’, a derivative of rosa ‘rose’. It was a common conceit in the Middle Ages to name collections of verse or similar short pieces after bunches of flowers (anthology comes from the Greek word for… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

• rosary — [14] Rosary comes from Latin rosārium ‘rose garden’, a derivative of rosa ‘rose’. It was a common conceit in the Middle Ages to name collections of verse or similar short pieces after bunches of flowers (anthology comes from the Greek word for… …   Word origins

• Prayer beads — are traditionally used to keep count of the repetitions of prayers, chants or devotions by adherents of religion. Since the beads can be fingered in an automatic manner, they allow one to keep track of how many prayers have been said with a… …   Wikipedia

• paternoster — noun a) The Lords prayer, especially in a Roman Catholic context. Pater noster, qui es in caelis, sanctificetur nomen tuum. Adveniat regnum tuum. Fiat voluntas tua, sicut in caelo et in terra. Panem nostrum quotidianum da nobis hodie, et dimitte… …   Wiktionary

• ro·sa·ry — /ˈroʊzəri/ noun, pl ries 1 [count] : a string of beads that are used by Roman Catholics for counting prayers 2 the Rosary : a set of Roman Catholic prayers that are repeated in a specific order recite/say the Rosary …   Useful english dictionary