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Alternative form of paternoster (“Lord's Prayer”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
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name
A surname.
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noun
The Lord's Prayer, especially in a Roman Catholic context.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: Christianity
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noun
A slow, continuously moving lift or elevator consisting of a loop of open-fronted cabins running the height of a building.
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noun
A bead-like ornament in mouldings.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: architecture
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noun
A tackle rig with a heavy sinker at the end of the line, and one or more hooks on traces at right angles spaced above the sinker.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: fishing, hobbies, lifestyle
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noun
A string of beads used in counting prayers that are said.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
Topics: Christianity
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Broader terms: prayer beads
noun
Every eleventh bead in a rosary, at which, while counting the beads, the Lord's Prayer is to be repeated.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
Topics: Christianity
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Broader terms: prayer bead
noun
A medieval artisan who crafted rosary beads or prayer nuts.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
Topics: Christianity
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noun
A patent medicine, so named because salesmen would pray the Lord's Prayer over it before selling it.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
Synonyms: nostrum, nostrum remedium
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verb
To try to catch (fish, etc.) with a paternoster rig.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Topics: fishing, hobbies, lifestyle
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noun
a type of lift having a chain of open compartments that move continually in an endless loop so that (agile) passengers can step on or off at each floor
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: elevator, lift
noun
(Roman Catholic Church) the Lord's Prayer in Latin; translates as `our father'
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: Lord's Prayer
History
From Latin pater (“father”) + noster (“ours”).
From Middle English paternoster, pater noster, from Old English Paternoster, from Latin Pater noster (“our father”) (the first two words of the Oratio Dominica (“the Lord's prayer”)), from pater (“father”) + noster (“our”). The lift and the fishing equipment are named from their resemblance to a rosary.
Across languages
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