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(computing slang, humorous) A generic deity; the listener's or reader's god of choice.
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A Greek liturgical hymn in honour of Mary.
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(religion, derogatory, historical, obsolete) An idol.
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Alternative form of Hagiosoritissa [(postpositive) Showing the Virgin Mary without child, slightly from the side, and with both hands raised in prayer.]
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(Roman Catholicism) A bar of wax imprinted with a similar shape and blessed by the Pope.
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(Christianity) The Hail Mary prayer.
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A Christian devotion in memory of the Incarnation.
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A festival in honor of the ascent of the Virgin Mary into heaven, celebrated on 15 August.
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A site of imperial cult in Ancient Roman religion.
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A biblical angel made from bright wheels covered in eyes.
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Hail Mary (Catholic prayer, part of the rosary)
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(usually considered derogatory) The Superior General of the Society of Jesus.
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(Christianity) The Virgin Mary.
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A series of representations of Christ’s Passion in a church.
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A veil used in christening.
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(Christianity, chiefly historical) The Virgin Mary.
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(religion, historical) An annual Ancient Roman festival in honour of the Lares Compitales, household deities of the crossroads, to whom sacrifices were offered at the places where two or more ways met.
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(Christianity, sometimes capitalised) A woman who is beloved of God; a righteous woman.
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A lesser deity. Someone held up for reverence as a supreme example.
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(obsolete) The Lord's Prayer.
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(Eastern Orthodoxy, often capitalized) The death and assumption into heaven of the Virgin Mary.
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(Christianity) The entrance of the Virgin Mary to the Temple.
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The appearance of Jesus Christ to the Magi, recorded in Matthew 2:1–12 in the Bible.
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A title given to the personification of a force of nature or abstract concept, such as Father Time or Father Frost.
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Alternative form of Vehmic [(historical) Of or pertaining to the Vehm, a Westphalian "proto-vigilante" tribunal system during the Middle Ages.]
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The tutelary deity or spirit watching over a particular person.
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(figuratively, slang) A person who is exceptionally skilled in a particular activity.
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God's gift to women or God's gift to men
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The single goddess of various monotheistic religions.
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(Old Testament) A golden image of a calf, made by Aaron and worshipped by the Israelites.
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A depiction of the Virgin Mary as such.
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(Christianity) A prayer calling for the intercession of the Virgin Mary.
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Any of several beads, on a rosary, at which a Roman Catholic worshiper recites the Hail Mary
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An iconographic depiction of the Virgin Mary and Christ child
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Alternative letter-case form of holy used when referring to an important figure, such as God, or to an important item or event.
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(Christianity) the historical cross on which Christ died
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(informal, derogatory) A man who is sanctimonious.
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(Ireland, informal) One who is extremely pious.
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(Christianity) A title of the Virgin Mary.
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(Christianity) The tomb in which the body of Christ was laid after the Crucifixion.
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(mythology, religion) A minor tutelary deity watching over a household, usually conceived as a protective ancestral spirit or genius loci.
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(Roman Catholicism) A level of veneration higher than dulia but less than latria, properly given to the Virgin Mary only.
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The doctrine, in the Roman Catholic Church, that the Virgin Mary was conceived biologically but free from original sin.
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(Christianity) The church festival observed on 3 May in commemoration of St Helena's alleged discovery of the so-called True Cross.
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The husband of Virgin Mary.
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A chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary.
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25th March, Christian holy day, the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary.
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(Roman mythology) The household deities of ancient Rome, respectively overseeing the family and its house and storerooms.
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An artistic representation of this event.
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(historical) An ancient "feast of the gods", at which images of the gods were set on couches around a feast table.
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The emblem of a winged lion holding a Bible, representing the evangelist St. Mark and used as the symbol of Venice.
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A representation of the Virgin Mary.
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Resembling or characteristic of the Virgin Mary.
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In the manner of the Virgin Mary.
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(music) The liturgical canticle of the Virgin Mary, sung in Christian churches; taken from her reported words upon the occasion of her Visitation to her cousin Elizabeth.
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A vesica piscis-shaped aureola that surrounds the figures of Christ and the Virgin Mary, or represents God the Father (who is not traditionally depicted) in traditional Eastern Christian art.
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(Christianity) A covering for a crucifix.
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(Christianity) Of or relating to the Virgin Mary.
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The veneration of the Virgin Mary, especially in the Roman Catholic Church.
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The concept, found in Latin American folk culture, that a virtuous woman should emulate the Virgin Mary in piousness, sexual purity, modesty, etc.
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(Christianity, historical) A member of an ancient sect that regarded the Virgin Mary as divine.
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One who worships the Virgin Mary.
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(rare) Obsolete spelling of Mariolatry [(Protestantism, derogatory) Adoration or veneration of the Virgin Mary to an extent regarded as inappropriate or even idolatrous.]
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(Protestantism, derogatory) Adoration or veneration of the Virgin Mary to an extent regarded as inappropriate or even idolatrous.
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The theological study of the Virgin Mary.
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The Virgin Mary, the mother of Christ.
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Chaste and pure, like the Virgin Mary.
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A festival held on 15 August in honour of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary; Assumption.
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Alternative spelling of Mariolatry [(Protestantism, derogatory) Adoration or veneration of the Virgin Mary to an extent regarded as inappropriate or even idolatrous.]
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Of or pertaining to stonemasons or masonry.
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(Wicca) One of the triune gods of the Horned God in Wicca alongside the Father and Sage and representing a boy or a young man
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(art) The Virgin Mary represented as the sorrowing mother.
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The study of women who were involved in the early Christian church.
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(historical) A member of the early Bavarian Illuminati, ranking above a novice.
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(Christianity) The Virgin Mary, as mother of Jesus Christ, whom Christians believe to be God.
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(Christianity) The Virgin Mary, the mother of Christ.
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A person who is completely unselfish to the point of being saintly.
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A person with the same name as another.
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(Christianity, art) A picture depicting Jesus appearing to Mary Magdalene shortly after his resurrection from the dead (see the etymology).
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(Christianity) The Virgin Mary, in reference to her sorrows.
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(Christianity) Virgin Mary
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The worship of virgins, or of the Virgin Mary.
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(figuratively) Jesus Christ symbolized as a sacrifice.
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(Christianity) The Lord's prayer, especially in a Roman Catholic context.
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(historical, Christianity) A female perfect (Cathar leader).
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(uncommon, ecclesiastical) A pie or directory: the book directing Roman Catholic observance of saints' days and other feasts under various calendars.
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Alternative form of pietà [A sculpture or painting of the Virgin Mary holding and mourning the dead body of Jesus.]
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A sculpture or painting of the Virgin Mary holding and mourning the dead body of Jesus.
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(historical) An ancient pinax or tablet.
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A woman with religious duties and responsibilities in certain non-Christian religions.
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(Christianity) The Virgin Mary (especially in formulations such as Queen of Heaven, Queen of Glory).
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(Christianity) The Virgin Mary.
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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.
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(Christianity) the Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ
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A religious character named Michael or its equivalents, raised to sainthood.
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A village near Assisi, Italy, famed for the indulgence granted at its Portiuncula chapel on 1 & 2 August.
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(obsolete) Any degenerate monk.
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(Christianity, of Saint Mary) Perpetual virgin. (Refers to the belief that Saint Mary remained a virgin her whole life.)
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(historical) A temple or other religious institution dedicated to the syncretic Greco-Egyptian deity Serapis.
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(Christianity) The Virgin Mary, the mother of Christ.
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(Christianity) A hymn to Mary, the Theotokos, that refers to the crucifixion of Christ.
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(Christianity, metonymically) The Transfiguration of Jesus
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(religion) A worship service in the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, consisting of praises glorifying God taken from the Psalms and other Biblical sources and often chanted with a simple musical accompaniment of cymbals and triangle.
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A meeting house of the Oddfellows fraternity; its members.
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An idol or other image of reverence and divination among the ancient Hebrews; apparently especially a kind of household god.
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Alternative form of Theotokos [(chiefly Eastern Christianity) The Virgin Mary.]
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(Christianity) A hymn to Mary, the Theotokos, read or chanted during the Divine Services of the Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic churches.
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(chiefly Eastern Christianity) The Virgin Mary.
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(religion, chiefly paganism) A deity or spirit serving as a guardian or protector of a place, person, culture, etc.; a tutelar, a tutelary deity.
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(religion) A deity, usually minor, serving as a tutelary (guardian or supporter) for a place, person, group, or activity.
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(obsolete) A veronica (image of Jesus).
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(Roman Catholicism) The image of Jesus's face believed to have been made on the cloth with which St Veronica wiped his face as he went to be crucified; or the cloth used for this.
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(Christianity) Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus.
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(Christianity) Mary, the mother of Christ.
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A book of prayers and hymns to the Virgin Mary.
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(Christianity) The visit of the Virgin Mary to her cousin Elizabeth; the commemoration of this on 30 May in Eastern Christianity or 31 May in Western Christianity.
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(Ireland) An ostentatiously pious person.
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