Rosary vs. Paternoster
Difference Between Rosary and Paternoster
Rosarynoun
Prayer beads, a string of beads used to keep track of repetitions in prayer, particularly in the Roman Catholic Marian prayer "Hail Mary" (Ave Maria)
Paternosternoun
(Christianity) The Lord's prayer, especially in a Roman Catholic context.
Rosarynoun
A Roman Catholic devotion involving the repetition of a series of Marian prayers, usually 5, 15, or 20 decades of "Hail Marys", each decade beginning with "Our Father" and ending with "Glory Be to the Father", but sometimes including other Roman Catholic, Anglican, or Lutheran prayers.
Paternosternoun
A slow, continuously moving lift or elevator consisting of a loop of open-fronted cabins running the height of a building.
Rosarynoun
(by extension) A series or collection of thoughts, literary pieces, etc. intended for similar contemplation.
Paternosternoun
(architecture) A bead-like ornament in mouldings.
Rosarynoun
A 13th-century coin minted in Europe as a counterfeit debased form of the sterling silver penny of Edward I, at first accepted as a halfpenny and then outlawed.
Paternosternoun
(fishing) 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.
Rosarynoun
A rose garden.
Paternosternoun
A string of beads used in counting prayers that are said; a rosary.
Rosarynoun
beads used in counting prayers (especially Catholic rosary)
Paternosternoun
Every eleventh bead in a rosary, at which, while counting the beads, the Lord's Prayer is to be repeated.
Paternosternoun
A medieval artisan who crafted rosary beads or prayer nuts.
Paternosternoun
(archaic) A patent medicine, so named because salesmen would pray the Lord's Prayer over it before selling it.
Paternosterverb
To try to catch (fish, etc.) with a paternoster rig.
Paternosternoun
(Roman Catholic Church) the Lord's Prayer in Latin; translates as `our father'
Paternosternoun
a type of lift having a chain of open compartments that move continually in a loop so that (agile) passengers can step on or off at each floor
