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The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Arabic misbahah; tasbih; subhah. String of thirty-three beads used by Muslims since the ninth century to count ...
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
In Christianity, a Catholic devotion which consists in reciting fifteen ‘decades’ (groups of ten) of Hail Marys (Ave Maria ...
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The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages
String of beads for recalling *prayers recited in a specific order while contemplating events from the lives of Christ and ...
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World Encyclopedia
Form of meditational prayer that contemplates the life of Jesus and the Blessed Virgin Mary within the Catholic and Orthodox ...
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Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages
The term “rosary” was attached in the 15th c. to a pious exercise previously designated under the name of “psalter ...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.)
(in the Roman Catholic Church) a form of devotion in which five (or fifteen) decades of Hail Marys are repeated (a ...
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