presidential

en-adj

presidential (comparative more presidential, superlative most presidential)

more presidential (comparative)
most presidential (superlative)

These prayers are addressed to God in the name of the entire holy people and all present, by the priest who presides over the assembly in the person of Christ. It is with good reason, therefore, that they are called the "presidential prayers."

2002, General Instruction of the Roman Missal, International Committee on English in the Liturgy, Inc., §30

(Roman Catholicism) (of prayers) addressed to God on behalf of the congregation by the presiding priest


Easter

en-noun

Easter (countable and uncountable, plural Easters)

→ Chickasaw: Iista'

The noun is derived from Middle English Ester, from Old English ēastre, seemingly from Ēastre, a proposed Anglo-Saxon goddess of the dawn whose festival is thought to have been celebrated around the vernal equinox. Further from Proto-West Germanic *Austrā, from Proto-Germanic *Austrǭ, derived from either Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews- (“dawn; east”) or, more semantically plausible, from *austrą, *auzrą, a metathesized form of *wazrą (“spring (season)”), *-ǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *wósr̥ (“spring”).
The English word is cognate with German Low German Oostern (“Easter”), Old High German ōstarūn (modern German Ostern) and is possibly a doublet of east. Despite a modern folk etymology, not related to Ishtar.
The verb is derived from the noun.

der

(specifically, Roman Catholicism, dated, now chiefly figuratively) Usually preceded by an inflection of make: the act of receiving the Eucharist during Easter.


rektor

Borrowed from Dutch rector, from Latin rēctor.

(Catholicism) rector (cleric with managerial as well as spiritual responsibility for a church or other institution)


rektor

pl-noun

rektor m pers (related adjective rektorski)

rektorski (adjective)
rektor (nominative singular)
rektorzy (nominative plural)
rektory (derogatory nominative plural)
rektora (genitive singular)
rektorów (genitive plural)
rektorowi (dative singular)
rektorom (dative plural)
rektora (accusative singular)
rektorów (accusative plural)
rektorem (instrumental singular)
rektorami (instrumental plural)
rektorze (locative singular)
rektorach (locative plural)
rektorze (singular vocative)
rektorzy (plural vocative)

desctree

→ Russian: ре́ктор (réktor)
→ Armenian: ռեկտոր (ṙektor)

(Roman Catholicism) rector (cleric with managerial as well as spiritual responsibility for a church or other institution)


sé

From Old Galician-Portuguese see, from Latin sēdēs (“seat”), from sedeō (“I sit”), from Proto-Indo-European *sed- (“to sit”). Doublet of sede.


sé

From Old Galician-Portuguese see, from Latin sēdēs (“seat”), from sedeō (“to sit”), from Proto-Indo-European *sed- (“to sit”). Doublet of sede. Cognate with Galician sé and Spanish sede.

(Roman Catholicism) see (the cathedral and region under the jurisdiction of a bishop)


concupiscence

en-noun

concupiscence (countable and uncountable, plural concupiscences)

From Latin concupiscentia, from concupīscō (“I desire strongly, I desire eagerly; I covet”).

[“]Since concupiscence is the most common form of temptation, it is better for him to know something about it. The soul cannot be humbled by fasts and prayer; it must be broken by mortal sin to experience forgiveness of sin and rise to a state of grace. Otherwise, religion is nothing but dead logic.”

1927, Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop, Book V, section 1, page 147:

(Roman Catholicism) the desire of a person's lower appetite, contrary to reason, which subjugates and inclines them to experience temptation and to give in to sin, due to the Fall and original sin.


tiara

tiara (nominative singular)
tiary (nominative plural)
tiary (genitive singular)
tiar (genitive plural)
tiarze (dative singular)
tiarom (dative plural)
tiarę (accusative singular)
tiary (accusative plural)
tiarą (instrumental singular)
tiarami (instrumental plural)
tiarze (locative singular)
tiarach (locative plural)
tiaro (singular vocative)
tiary (plural vocative)

(countable, Roman Catholicism) tiara (three-tiered papal crown)

(uncountable, metonymically, Roman Catholicism) papacy (office of the pope)


limbo

limbo (countable and uncountable, plural limbos or limboes)

The noun is derived from Middle English limbo, lymbo (“place where innocent souls exist temporarily until they can enter heaven”), from Latin limbō, the ablative singular of limbus (“border, edge; hem; fringe, tassel”) (notably in expressions like in limbō (“in limbo”) and e limbō (“out of limbo”)); further etymology uncertain, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *lemb- (“to hang limply or loosely”), from Proto-Indo-European *leb- (“to hang down loosely (?)”). Doublet of limp.
The verb is derived from the noun.

der

Of vvhat texte thou proveſt hell / vvill a nother prove purgatory / a nother lymbo patrum / and a nother the aſſumpcion of oure ladi: And a nother ſhall prove of the ſame texte that an Ape hath a tayle.

1528 October 12 (Gregorian calendar), William Tyndale, “William Tyndale other wise Called William Hychins vnto the Reader”, in The Obediẽce of a Christen Man […], [Antwerp]: [Johannes Hoochstraten], →OCLC, folio xix, recto:

Oh vvhat a ſimpathie of vvoe is this, / As farre from helpe, as Lymbo is from bliſſe.

c. 1588–1593 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The Most Lamentable Romaine Tragedie of Titus Andronicus: […] (First Quarto), London: […] Iohn Danter, and are to be sold by Edward White & Thomas Millington, […], published 1594, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:

VVith all our heart, fare-vvell, fare-vvell, / I am freed from Lymbo, to be ſent to hell.

1605, [Thomas Heywood], If You Know Not Me, You Know No Bodie: Or, The Troubles of Queene Elizabeth, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot] for Nathaniel Butter, published 1606, →OCLC, signature D2, recto:

And they who have multiplied hells unto us, and made more hells than God hath made, more by their two limboes, (one for fathers, another for children) and one purgatory, have yet made their new hells more of the nature of heaven than of hell.

1626 November 15 (Gregorian calendar), John Donne, “The Third of My Prebend Sermons upon My Five Psalms. Sermon LXVII. Preached at St. Paul’s, November 5, 1626.”, in Henry Alford, editor, The Works of John Donne, D.D., […], volume III, London: John W[illiam] Parker, […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 183:

Limbo, or more exactly the notion of two different limbos within Christendom, was also an invention. Many medieval Christians had difficulty accepting the idea of eternal punishment meted out to two categories of persons who, on strictly technical grounds, were "outside" the Church and otherwise quite beyond the pale. The first category embraced wise and just people who died before the coming of Christ, and the second included all infants born within Christendom but, unfortunately, unbaptized at the time of their death.

1992, William R. LaFleur, “Jizō at the Crosswords”, in Liquid Life: Abortion and Buddhism in Japan, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, part 1 (Original Concepts), page 57:

(Roman Catholicism, uncountable) A speculation, thought possibly to be on the edge of the bottomless pit of Hell, where the souls of innocent deceased people might exist temporarily until they can enter heaven, specifically those of the saints who died before the advent of Jesus Christ (who occupy the limbo patrum or limbo of the patriarchs or fathers) and those of unbaptized infants (who occupy the limbo infantum or limbo of the infants); (countable) the possible place where each category of souls might exist, regarded separately.

քավարան

place where the souls of innocent deceased people exist temporarily until they can enter heaven


limbo

(Roman Catholicism) limbo (place for innocent souls)


provision

en-noun

provision (countable and uncountable, plural provisions)

/pɹəˈvɪʒ.ən/

From Middle English provisioun, from Old French provisïon, from Latin prōvīsiō (“preparation, foresight”), from prōvidēre (“provide”).

der

(Roman Catholicism) Regular induction into a benefice, comprehending nomination, collation, and installation.


ordo

Borrowed from Latin ōrdō. Doublet of order.

(Roman Catholicism) A calendar which prescribes the Mass and office which is to be celebrated each day.


ordo

id-noun

ordo (plural ordo-ordo, first-person possessive ordoku, second-person possessive ordomu, third-person possessive ordonya)

ordo-ordo (plural)
ordoku (first-person possessive)
ordomu (possessive second-person)
ordonya (possessive third-person)

Learned borrowing from Latin ōrdō. Doublet of rodi, orde, order, ordi, and wardi.

doublet

(Catholicism) a group of religious adherents, especially monks or nuns, set apart within their religion by adherence to a particular rule or set of principles.


provincial

/pɹəˈvɪnt͡ʃəl/

From Old French provincial, from Latin provincialis (“province”), equivalent to province + -ial.

The Franciscan provincial Diego de Landa set up a local Inquisition which unleashed a campaign of interrogation and torture on the Indio population.

2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 700:

(Roman Catholicism) A monastic superior, who, under the general of his order, has the direction of all the religious houses of the same fraternity in a given district, called a province of the order.

архиепископ

monastic superior who directs a province of an order


prima

→ Hunsrik: Prim

From Old Galician-Portuguese prima, from Latin prīma, feminine of prīmus (“first”), from Proto-Indo-European *per-.

(Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy) the first canonical hour


malcontent

nl-noun

malcontent m (plural malcontenten, diminutive malcontentje n)

malcontenten (plural)
malcontentje (diminutive neuter)

(historical, Roman Catholicism) a Dutch Roman Catholic noble who served the Spanish cause early in the Dutch revolt


transubstantiation

en-noun

transubstantiation (countable and uncountable, plural transubstantiations)

Borrowed from Medieval Latin trānsubstantiātiō.

I was openly dismissive about transubstantiation, by which the host is consecrated, and according to Catholic doctrine, literally turns from mere bread into the body of Christ. “But all the atoms stay the same!” I would insist. “That makes no sense!”

2020 July 6, Helen Lewis, “How J. K. Rowling Became Voldemort”, in The Atlantic:

(Roman Catholicism) The doctrine holding that the bread and wine of the Eucharist are essentially transformed into the body and blood of Jesus.


Society of Jesus

An order of Roman Catholic clergy, the Jesuits, having a tradition of education, theological scholarship, and missionary work; formed during the 16th century.


Jesuit

Learned borrowing from New Latin Iēsuīta.

lbor

(Catholicism) a member of the Society of Jesus


sacra

(Catholicism) altar card (one of a set of three richly-ornamented cards, placed on the altar during a Tridentine mass, containing the texts of prayers)


missa

la-noun

missa f (genitive missae); first declension

missae (genitive)
missa (nominative singular)
missae (nominative plural)
missae (genitive singular)
missārum (genitive plural)
missae (dative singular)
missīs (dative plural)
missam (accusative singular)
missās (accusative plural)
missā (ablative singular)
missīs (ablative plural)
missa (singular vocative)
missae (plural vocative)

→ Albanian: meshë

→ Basque: meza

→ Catalan: missa (learned)

Dalmatian: masa

→ Dutch: mis

French: messe

Friulian: messe

Italian: messa

→ Latvian: mesa

Occitan: messa

desctree

→ Old English: mæsse, mæssa
Middle English: messe (in part)
English: Mass, mass
Scots: mess

→ Old High German: missa

Middle High German: messe

German: Messe

→ Japanese: メッセ

→ Polish: msza

Portuguese: missa

Romanian: misă, mesă

Serbo-Croatian: misa

Sardinian: miscia

Spanish: misa

In use by the 6th century. Presumably from the phrase īte missa est (“go, the dismissal is made”) (said by a priest to dismiss the congregation after the service), where missa is Late Latin and Vulgar Latin, for missiō (“dismissal”), from mittō (“to discharge, release”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *meytH- (“to change; to exchange; to remove”)) + -tiō (suffix attached to verbs forming nouns relating to actions or their results).
An older derivation (16th century, attributed to Luther) adduced Hebrew מַצָּה (matsá, “unleavened bread; oblation”) (compare English matzo), but this is no longer considered a tenable etymology.

noncog

Omni dominica sex missas facite ("Each Sunday, do six masses") Caesarius of Arles, Regula ad monachos, PL 67, 1102B.

(Ecclesiastical Latin) Mass; Christian eucharistic liturgy


chalice

From Middle English chalis, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French chalice, collateral form of calice, borrowed from Latin calix, calicem (“cup”), from Ancient Greek κάλυξ (kálux). Doublet of calyx and kelch. Compare Sumerian 𒃲(GAL).

[W]e but teach / Bloody Inſtructions, which, being taught, returne / To plague th' Inuentor. This euen-handed Iuſtice / Commends th' Ingredience of our poyſon'd Challice / To our owne lips.

c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene vii], page 135, column 1:

A large drinking cup, often having a stem and base and used especially for formal occasions and religious ceremonies.

A kind of water-cooled pipe for smoking cannabis.


modernism

en-noun

modernism (countable and uncountable, plural modernisms)

A religious movement in the early 20th century, condemned as heretical by Pope Pius X, which tried to reconcile Roman Catholic dogma with modern science and philosophy.


Roman Catholic

Of or pertaining to the Latin rite, Latin Church, or Roman Rite of the Catholic Church.

římskokatolický

of or pertaining to the Roman Catholic Church

římskokatolický

of or pertaining to the Roman/Latin Rite


secretariat

/ˌsɛkɹəˈtɛəɹɪət/

/ˌsɛkɹəˈtɛɹi.ət/

(Roman Catholicism) A kind of dicastery within the Roman Curia.

quốc vụ viện

a kind of dicastery within the Roman Curia


Roman Catholic Church

اَلْكَنِيسَة اَلْرُومَانِيَّة اَلْكَاثُولِيكِيَّة


Blessed

(Roman Catholicism) An epithet indicating that a person has been beatified.


Capuchin

Borrowed from Middle French capuchin (“Capuchin friar”), from Italian cappuccino (“Capuchin friar”), from cappuccio (“hood, cowl”).

bor

A member of an order of Roman Catholic friars.


Advent

A civil parish near Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, England; derived from Saint Adwen or Adwenna.


Curia

Roman Catholic Church
Roman Catholic Church

The central administration of the Roman Catholic Church.


protector

From Middle English protectour, from Anglo-Norman protectour, protector, from Latin prōtēctor, from prōtegō (“shield, protect”). Displaced native Old English sċildend.

(Roman Catholicism) A cardinal, from one of the more considerable Roman Catholic nations, who looks after the interests of his people at Rome; also, a cardinal who has the same relation to a college, religious order, etc.


confession

en-noun

confession (countable and uncountable, plural confessions)

From Middle English confessioun, from Old French confession, from Latin cōnfessiō, cōnfessiōnem (“confession, acknowledgment, creed or avowal of one's faith”). Displaced native Old English andetnes. Doublet of confessio.
Morphologically confess + -ion.

der

I went to confession and now I feel much better about what I had done.

Hauing diſpleaſ'd my Father, to Lawrence Cell, / To make confeſſion, and to be abſolu'd.

c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:

sacrament of reconciliation
sacrament of reconciliation

(Christianity) The disclosure of one's sins to a priest for absolution. In the Roman Catholic Church, it is now also termed the sacrament of reconciliation.


General

de-noun

General m (strong, genitive Generales or Generals, plural Generäle or Generale, feminine Generälin or Generalin)

Generales (genitive)
Generals (genitive)
Generäle (plural)
Generale (plural)
Generälin (feminine)
Generalin (feminine)
General (nominative singular)
Generäle (definite nominative plural)
Generale (definite nominative plural)
Generales (genitive singular)
Generals (genitive singular)
Generäle (definite genitive plural)
Generale (definite genitive plural)
General (dative singular)
Generale (dative singular)
Generälen (dative definite plural)
Generalen (dative definite plural)
General (accusative singular)
Generäle (accusative definite plural)
Generale (accusative definite plural)

→ Bulgarian: генера́л (generál)

→ Russian: генера́л (generál) (see there for further descendants)

→ Serbo-Croatian: general, генерал

→ Slovene: general

→ Swedish: general
→ Finnish: kenraali

/ˌɡɛ.nəˈʁaːl/

Partly via Middle High German general, partly via French général, from Latin generālis.

(Roman Catholicism) general (head of an order)


Maria

From Latin Maria, from Ancient Greek Μαρία (María), Μαριάμ (Mariám), from Aramaic מרים (Maryām), corresponding to the Hebrew מרים (Miryām). Doublet of Mary, Marie, and Miriam.

Yet herein they come short of the monks and friars in their conceits of the word Maria; they have so tossed it and turned it, so anagrammatized and transposed it, that never were five poor letters so worried since time did put them into the alphabet.

1629, Thomas Adams, Meditations upon Creed, The Works of Thomas Adams, James Nichol (1862), volume 3, page 211

By their dresses, their names, and the airs of quality they give themselves, I am rendered ridiculous among all my acquaintance. My wife, who is a very plain good woman, and whose name is Amey, has been new-christened, and is called Amelia; and my little daughter, a child of a year old, is no longer Polly, but Maria.

1776, Adam Fitz-Adam: The World of Adam Fitz-Adam. Edinburgh, Apollo Press 1776: Numb. 187. Thursday, July 29, 1756

I've just kissed a girl named Maria / And suddenly I found how wonderful a sound can be! / Maria! Say it loud and there's music playing / Say it soft and it's almost like praying

1957, “Maria”, in Stephen Sondheim (lyrics), Leonard Bernstein (music), West Side Story:


Padre

Father (a title for a Latin Catholic priest and also God the Father)


Papa

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin pāpās, from Ancient Greek πάπας (pápas).

bor+

the Pope (head of both the Catholic and Coptic Churches)


Lent

Shortened form of Lenten, from Old English lencten, from Proto-West Germanic *langatīn (“spring”), as in a season into which days lengthen as it progresses. Related to German Lenz and Dutch lente (“springtime”).

الصَّوْم الْأَرْبَعِينِيّ

Christian period of penitence before Easter

(Christianity) A period of the ecclesiastical year preceding Easter, traditionally involving temporary abstention from certain foods and pleasures.

(Roman Catholicism) The 46 days preceding Easter, reckoned as 40 days by excluding Sundays.


Mass

en-noun

Mass (countable and uncountable, plural Masses)

From Middle English messe, from Old English mæsse and Old French messe, both from Late Latin missa, from Latin mittō (“to send, dismiss”), compare French messe.
In the ancient churches, the public services at which the catechumens were permitted to be present were called missa catechumenorum, ending with the reading of the Gospel. Then they were dismissed with the words: "Ite, missa est", the congregation is dismissed. After that the sacrifice proper began. At its close the same words were said to those who remained. So the word gave the name of Mass to the sacrifice in the Catholic Church. Compare Christmas, Lammas, missal. Doublet of missa.

(Roman Catholicism) The principal liturgical service of the Church, encompassing both a scripture service (Liturgy of the Word) and a eucharistic service (Liturgy of the Eucharist), which includes the consecration and oblation (offering) of the host and wine.

meshë

Roman Catholic Church: the principal liturgical service


Mass

From Middle High German misse, from Old High German missa (variant of messa), from Latin missa. Cognate with English mass, German Messe, Hunsrik Mess, Danish messe, Dutch mis.

(Roman Catholicism) mass; Mass (kind of liturgical service)


Victor

[vïk̟̚˧˦ tɔ˧˧]

[vɨt̚˦˧˥ tɔ˧˧]

[vɨt̚˦˥ tɔ˧˧]

[jɨt̚˦˥ tɔ˧˧]

From Latin Victor. Cognate with English Victor.


Pan

Pan (nominative singular)
Pana (genitive singular)
Panowi (dative singular)
Pana (accusative singular)
Panem (instrumental singular)
Panie (locative singular)
Panie (singular vocative)

Learned borrowing from Latin Pan, from Ancient Greek Πάν (Pán).

(Greek mythology) Pan (Greek god of nature)


benediction

benediction (countable and uncountable, plural benedictions)

/ˌbɛnəˈdɪkʃən/

From Middle English benediccion, from Ecclesiastical Latin benedictio, benedictionis, from benedictus (“blessed; well spoken of”). Doublet of benison.

der

[He] later liked to attend benediction in the chapel at Brideshead and see the ladies of the family with their necks arched in devotion under their black lace mantillas; [...]

1945, Evelyn Waugh, chapter 5, in Brideshead Revisited […], 3rd edition, London: Chapman & Hall, →OCLC, book 1 (Et in Arcadia Ego), page 98:

A Roman Catholic rite by which bells, banners, candles, etc., are blessed with holy water and formally dedicated to God.


interdict

en-verb

interdict (third-person singular simple present interdicts, present participle interdicting, simple past and past participle interdicted)

interdicts (present singular third-person)
interdicting (participle present)
interdicted (participle past)
interdicted (past)

From Middle English entrediten, from Old French entredire (“forbid”), from Latin interdīcō (“prohibit, forbid”), from inter- (“between”) + dīcō (“say”), from Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ-.

An archbishop [may not only] excommunicate and interdict his suffragans, but his Vicar-General may also do the same.

1726, John Ayliffe, Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani: Or, A Commentary, by Way of Supplement to the Canons and Constitutions of the Church of England. […], London: […] D. Leach, and sold by John Walthoe […], →OCLC:

(transitive, Roman Catholicism) To exclude (someone or somewhere) from participation in church services; to place under a religious interdict.


laura

From the Late Latin laura, from Ancient Greek λαύρα (laúra, “lane, path”).

der

The solitaries of the Thebaid found that they became selfish wild beasts, or went mad, if they remained alone; and they formed themselves into lauras, 'lanes' of huts, convents, under a common abbot or father.

1864, Charles Kingsley, Lecture IX: The Monk a Civilizer: The Roman and the Teuton: A Series of Lectures Delivered Before the University of Cambridge, page 240:

(historical, Roman Catholicism) A number of hermitages or cells in the same neighborhood occupied by anchorites who were under the same superior


R

(Catholicism) Abbreviation of responsorium, responsory, breviary.


rota

rota (nominative singular)
roty (nominative plural)
roty (genitive singular)
rot (genitive plural)
rocie (dative singular)
rotom (dative plural)
rotę (accusative singular)
roty (accusative plural)
rotą (instrumental singular)
rotami (instrumental plural)
rocie (locative singular)
rotach (locative plural)
roto (singular vocative)
roty (plural vocative)

(law, Roman Catholicism) tribunal of appeal functioning under the Roman Curia


rota

(Roman Catholicism) rota (ecclesiastical court of appeal)


devil's advocate

en-noun

devil's advocate (plural devil's advocates)

Calque of Latin advocātus diabolī (“the devil’s advocate”), a popular title given to the officer dealing with the canonization process in the 16th c.

calque

(historical, Roman Catholicism) A canon lawyer appointed by the Church to argue against the canonization of the proposed candidate.

مُحَامِي الشَّيْطَان

muḥāmī š-šayṭān

列聖調査審問検事

れっせいちょうさしんもんけんじ


heilige

From Middle Dutch heilige, from Old Dutch hēligo.

/ˈɦɛi̯.lə.ɣə/

(Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy) a Christian believer who is believed to have performed miracles and to intercede on behalf of other believers


RC

en-noun

RC (countable and uncountable, plural RCs)

(Roman Catholicism) Initialism of Roman Catholic.


antipapal

en-adj

antipapal (comparative more antipapal, superlative most antipapal)

more antipapal (comparative)
most antipapal (superlative)

(Roman Catholicism) characterized by opposition to the pope

(Roman Catholicism) of or relating to an antipope


antipapal

(Roman Catholicism) antipapal (characterised by opposition to the pope)


antipapal

es-adj

antipapal m or f (masculine and feminine plural antipapales)


Gen

Shortened from new generation, from Italian generazione nuova.

(Roman Catholicism) A member of the Gen Movement, a youth expression of the international Focolare Movement.


reconciliation

en-noun

reconciliation (countable and uncountable, plural reconciliations)

From Middle English reconciliacioun (“act of reconciling; state of accord or harmony;”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman reconciliaciun, reconsiliacion, reconsiliaciun, and Middle French reconciliation, reconsiliacion, reconsiliation (“act of reconciling; result of this act; act of bringing about agreement or harmony; reconsecration of a desecrated place”) (modern French réconciliation), and from their Latin etymon reconciliātiō (“reinstatement, renewal, restoration; reconciliation”), from reconciliāre + -tiō.

nb...

reconcyliacyoun, reconsiliation, reconsiliacion, reconsiliacioun, reconsyliacion, reconsylyacion,

(Christianity, chiefly Roman Catholicism) Admission of a person to membership of the church, or readmission after the person has previously left the church.

(Roman Catholicism) Short for sacrament of reconciliation (“a sacrament (sacred ritual) also called confession, involving contrition by a person, confessing sins to a priest, penance performed by the person, and absolution granted by the priest”).

sacrament of reconciliation
sacrament of reconciliation#English


custody

en-noun

custody (usually uncountable, plural custodies)

Borrowed from Latin custōdia (“a keeping, watch, guard, prison”), from custōs (“a keeper, watchman, guard”).

bor+

The Custody of the Holy Land includes the monasteries of Bethlehem, Nazareth, and Jerusalem.

(Roman Catholicism) An area under the jurisdiction of a custos within the Order of Friars Minor.


embolism

The term was coined in 1848 by Rudolf Virchow. From Old French embolisme (“intercalation of days in a calendar to correct errors”), from Late Latin embolismus, from Ancient Greek ἐμβολισμός (embolismós, “intercalary”), from ἐμβάλλω (embállō, “to insert, throw in”).

der

(Roman Catholicism) The variable body of a liturgical preface, between the protocol and eschatocol, typically stating the motive for worship on a given day.


Pe.

(Roman Catholicism) Abbreviation of padre (“priest”); Fr.


sext

From Latin sexta (“sixth; sixth hour”). Doublet of siesta.

(Roman Catholicism) The service appointed for this hour.


Ablasshandel

de-noun

Ablasshandel m (strong, genitive Ablasshandels, no plural)

Ablasshandels (genitive)
Ablasshandel (nominative singular)
Ablasshandels (genitive singular)
Ablasshandel (dative singular)
Ablasshandel (accusative singular)

(historical, Roman Catholicism) selling of indulgences


collegial

en-adj

collegial (comparative more collegial, superlative most collegial)

more collegial (comparative)
most collegial (superlative)

From Middle English collegial, from Middle French collégial.

(Roman Catholicism) Ruled by bishops having equal power.

col·legial

Roman Catholic Church: ruled by bishops having equal power


bulla

bulla (nominative singular)
bulle (nominative plural)
bulli (genitive singular)
bulli (genitive plural)
bulli (dative singular)
bullom (dative plural)
bullę (accusative singular)
bulle (accusative plural)
bullą (instrumental singular)
bullami (instrumental plural)
bulli (locative singular)
bullach (locative plural)
bullo (singular vocative)
bulle (plural vocative)

(Roman Catholicism) bull (papal bull; a document from the papal chancellery)


Inquisition

We know from history that the Catholic Church has historically murdered, mutilated, castrated, maimed, imprisoned and flogged homosexuals. Catholic atrocities during the Inquisition are well documented and cannot be denied. The Church no longer does those things to homosexuals, but it violates their human rights in other ways.

1981 December 27, John Rupkey, “Leading The Way In Persecution”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 23, page 4:

(historical) A tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church set up to investigate and suppress heresy.


vagus

Borrowing from Latin vagus (“wandering, rambling, strolling”).

bor

Though not referred in the Code as a domicile of origin, a child's place of origin is fixed by the place where his father had his domicile or, in defect of domicile, his quasi-domicile when the child was born, or where the mother had hers if the child was illegitimate or posthumous; if the parents were vagi it is the place where the child was born; if the child was a foundling the place where it was discovered.

1922, “Domicile”, in Charles George Herbermann, Edward A. Pace, editors, The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine, Discipline, and History of the Catholic Church, volume 17, page 270:

(Roman Catholicism) A homeless person or vagrant.


Immaculate Conception

(Catholicism) The doctrine, in the Roman Catholic Church, that the Virgin Mary was conceived biologically but free from original sin.

(Roman Catholicism) December 8th (The Feast of the Immaculate Conception of Mary).

(Roman Catholicism) A title of Mary, in particular reference to her unique status with regard to the aforementioned doctrine.


pillar

From Middle English piler, from Old French pilier, from Medieval Latin or Vulgar Latin *pilāre (“a pillar”), from Latin pila (“a pillar, pier, mole”).

two laye-men secular
eache of theym holdynge a pillar
In their hondes, steade of a mace

(Roman Catholicism) A portable ornamental column, formerly carried before a cardinal, as emblematic of his support to the church.


dispense

en-verb

dispense (third-person singular simple present dispenses, present participle dispensing, simple past and past participle dispensed)

dispenses (present singular third-person)
dispensing (participle present)
dispensed (participle past)
dispensed (past)

From Middle English, from Old French dispenser, from Latin dispēnsāre (“to weigh out, pay out, distribute, regulate, manage, control, dispense”), frequentative of dispendere (“to weigh out”), from dis- (“apart”) + pendere (“to weigh”).

der

One loving howre / For many yeares of sorrow can dispence

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 30:

His synne was dispensed with golde, wherof it was compensed

c. 1386–1390, John Gower, edited by Reinhold Pauli, Confessio Amantis of John Gower: Edited and Collated with the Best Manuscripts, volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Bell and Daldy […], published 1857, →OCLC:

(intransitive, obsolete) To compensate; to make up; to make amends.


ara

(Catholicism) the altar stone: the stone covered by the corporal


recollection

en-noun

recollection (usually uncountable, plural recollections)

/ɹɛkəˈlɛkʃən/

Via French récollection or the verb recollect, both from Latin recollectus, the past participle of recolligere (“to collect again”), itself from re- + colligere (“to gather”).

From such an education Charles contracted habits of gravity and recollection.

In a world filled with media and electronic devices, recollection can be difficult.

(archaic or Catholicism) The act or practice of collecting or concentrating the mind; concentration; self-control.

zklidnění mysli

archaic: the act or practice of collecting or concentrating the mind

(Catholicism) A spiritual retreat, especially one that is short.


res judicata

From Latin rēs (“thing, matter, affair”) and jūdicata, feminine nominative singular form of jūdicatus, past participle of jūdico (“judge”).

(law) The legal doctrine that claims that a case already decided in a proceeding may not be brought in any later proceeding.


Erzbischof

de-noun

Erzbischof m (strong, genitive Erzbischofs, plural Erzbischöfe, feminine Erzbischöfin)

Erzbischofs (genitive)
Erzbischöfe (plural)
Erzbischöfin (feminine)
Erzbischof (nominative singular)
Erzbischöfe (definite nominative plural)
Erzbischofs (genitive singular)
Erzbischöfe (definite genitive plural)
Erzbischof (dative singular)
Erzbischöfen (dative definite plural)
Erzbischof (accusative singular)
Erzbischöfe (accusative definite plural)

[ˈɛʁt͡sˌbɪʃɔf]

[ˈeːɐ̯t͡sˌbɪʃɔf]

From Middle High German erzebischof, from Old High German erzibiscof. erz- + Bischof

(Christianity) archbishop (male or of unspecified gender)


novena

From Ecclesiastical Latin novēna, from Latin novēnus (“nine [each]”).

(Roman Catholicism) A recitation of prayers and devotions for nine consecutive days, especially one to a saint to ask for their intercession.


novena

la-noun

novēna f (genitive novēnae); first declension

novēna (canonical feminine)
novēnae (genitive)
novēna (nominative singular)
novēnae (nominative plural)
novēnae (genitive singular)
novēnārum (genitive plural)
novēnae (dative singular)
novēnīs (dative plural)
novēnam (accusative singular)
novēnās (accusative plural)
novēnā (ablative singular)
novēnīs (ablative plural)
novēna (singular vocative)
novēnae (plural vocative)

(Ecclesiastical Latin) novena (recitation of prayers for nine days)


novena

Learned borrowing from Latin novēna. By surface analysis, nove (“nine”) + -ena.

surf

(Roman Catholicism) novena (a recitation of prayers for nine days)


Augustinian

of, or relating to several religious orders influenced by him

augustinolainen

of or relating to religious order influenced by him


inquisitor

From Old French inquisiteur, from Latin inquīsītor.

A person who inquires, especially searchingly or ruthlessly.


solemnity

en-noun

solemnity (countable and uncountable, plural solemnities)

From solemn + -ity, from Middle English solemnity (“observance of formality and ceremony”), frequently in the phrases in solemnity, with solemnity, which from Old French solemnite, from Latin sollemnitās, from sollemnis. (Compare solemn.)

der

(Catholicism) A feast day of the highest rank celebrating a mystery of faith such as the Trinity, an event in the life of Jesus, the Virgin Mary, or another important saint.


mantlet

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-mantlet.wav

From Middle English mauntelet, from Old French mantelet, diminutive of mantel (“mantle”). Doublet of mantelletta.

(Christianity, chiefly Catholicism) A mantelletta.


sacerdote

Tenonotzaloni, inic yehuatl ſacerdote quinonotza ymmoyolcuitiznequi.

1565, Alonso de Molina, Confessionario breue, en lengua Mexicana y Castellana:


misión

Borrowed from Latin missiōnem. Cognate with English mission.

(Christianity, Roman Catholicism, religion) mission


legado

Borrowed from Latin lēgātus (“envoy, ambassador”).

bor+

(Roman Catholicism) nuncio (diplomatic representative of the Roman Catholic Church)


señor

gl-noun

señor m (plural señores, feminine señora, feminine plural señoras)

señores (plural)
señora (feminine)
señoras (feminine plural)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese senhor, from Latin senior. Compare Portuguese senhor.

inh+

(capitalized, Catholicism) the Lord / God


Our Lady

Calque of Medieval Latin Domina Nostra and its descendants in other languages. Cf. Queen of Heaven.

(Christianity) Synonym of Mary, mother of Jesus, particularly in Catholic contexts.

Zonja Jonë

Mary, mother of Jesus — see also Mary, Madonna, Mother of God, Our Lady of Sorrows, Queen of Heaven, Saint Mary, Virgin Mary


seminary

From Latin sēminārium, from sēmen (“seed”). Compare seminar. In the ground sense, from Middle English semynair, semynary.

I shall not need to instance in the effects which this bull produced; the treason of Watson and Cleark, two English seminaries, are sufficiently known

1638, Jeremy Taylor, Sermon on Gunpowder Treason:

A Roman Catholic priest educated in a foreign seminary; a seminarist.


ampul

id-noun

ampul (first-person possessive ampulku, second-person possessive ampulmu, third-person possessive ampulnya)

ampulku (first-person possessive)
ampulmu (possessive second-person)
ampulnya (possessive third-person)

Borrowed from Dutch ampul (“ampoule”). Doublet of ampula.

(Catholicism) ampulla: a vessel for containing consecrated wine or oil.


sagrado

es-adj

sagrado (feminine sagrada, masculine plural sagrados, feminine plural sagradas)

sagrada (feminine)
sagrados (masculine plural)
sagradas (feminine plural)


ambo

Borrowed from Late Latin ambō, from Ancient Greek ἄμβων (ámbōn).

The dignity of the Word of God requires that in the church there be a suitable place from which it may be proclaimed and toward which the attention of the faithful naturally turns during the Liturgy of the Word. It is appropriate that generally this place be a stationary ambo and not simply a movable lectern.

2010, General Instruction of the Roman Missal, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, published 2011, section #309:

(Roman Catholicism) A stationary podium used for readings and homilies.


ambo

id-noun

ambo (plural ambo-ambo, first-person possessive amboku, second-person possessive ambomu, third-person possessive ambonya)

ambo-ambo (plural)
amboku (first-person possessive)
ambomu (possessive second-person)
ambonya (possessive third-person)

Learned borrowing from Late Latin ambō, from Ancient Greek ἄμβων (ámbōn).

(Catholicism) ambo: stationary podium used for readings and homilies.


foedus

la-adj

foedus (feminine foeda, neuter foedum, comparative foedior, superlative foedissimus, adverb foedē); first/second-declension adjective

foeda (feminine)
foedum (neuter)
foedior (comparative)
foedissimus (superlative)
foedē (adverb)
foedus (masculine nominative singular)
foeda (feminine nominative singular)
foedum (neuter nominative singular)
foedī (masculine nominative plural)
foedae (feminine nominative plural)
foeda (neuter nominative plural)
foedī (genitive masculine singular)
foedae (feminine genitive singular)
foedī (genitive neuter singular)
foedōrum (genitive masculine plural)
foedārum (feminine genitive plural)
foedōrum (genitive neuter plural)
foedō (dative masculine singular)
foedae (dative feminine singular)
foedō (dative neuter singular)
foedīs (dative feminine masculine neuter plural)
foedum (accusative masculine singular)
foedam (accusative feminine singular)
foedum (accusative neuter singular)
foedōs (accusative masculine plural)
foedās (accusative feminine plural)
foeda (accusative neuter plural)
foedō (ablative masculine singular)
foedā (ablative feminine singular)
foedō (ablative neuter singular)
foedīs (ablative feminine masculine neuter plural)
foede (masculine singular vocative)
foeda (feminine singular vocative)
foedum (neuter singular vocative)
foedī (masculine plural vocative)
foedae (feminine plural vocative)
foeda (neuter plural vocative)

Asturian: feu

Italian: fedo

Old Galician-Portuguese: feo

Galician: feo

Portuguese: feio

Spanish: feo

From Proto-Italic *foiðos (“afraid”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyh₂- (“to frighten; be afraid”).

der

(physically) filthy, foul, disgusting, loathsome, ugly, unseemly, detestable, abominable, horrible


Wandlung

de-noun

Wandlung f (genitive Wandlung, plural Wandlungen)

Wandlung (genitive)
Wandlungen (plural)
Wandlung (nominative singular)
Wandlungen (definite nominative plural)
Wandlung (genitive singular)
Wandlungen (definite genitive plural)
Wandlung (dative singular)
Wandlungen (dative definite plural)
Wandlung (accusative singular)
Wandlungen (accusative definite plural)

From Middle High German wandelunge, wandalunge, from Old High German wantalunga (“change, exchange, trade”), from Proto-West Germanic *wandalungu, from Proto-West Germanic *wandalōn, equivalent to wandeln + -ung.

inh

(Roman Catholicism) consecration, transubstantiation (the changing of bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ; the portion of Mass where this is believed to occur)


Gregorian

/ɡɹɪɡɔːɹi.ən/

Of or relating to James Gregory (mathematician), inventor of the Gregorian telescope.


czarny

pl-adj

czarny (comparative czarniejszy or bardziej czarny, superlative najczarniejszy or najbardziej czarny, derived adverb czarno)

czarniejszy (comparative)
bardziej czarny (comparative)
najczarniejszy (superlative)
najbardziej czarny (superlative)
czarny (masculine nominative singular)
czarna (feminine nominative singular)
czarne (neuter nominative singular)
czarni (nominative plural virile)
czarne (nominative plural)
czarnego (genitive masculine singular)
czarnej (feminine genitive singular)
czarnego (genitive neuter singular)
czarnych (genitive plural)
czarnych (genitive plural virile)
czarnemu (dative masculine singular)
czarnej (dative feminine singular)
czarnemu (dative neuter singular)
czarnym (dative plural)
czarnym (dative plural virile)
czarnego (accusative animate masculine singular)
czarny (accusative inanimate masculine singular)
czarną (accusative feminine singular)
czarne (accusative neuter singular)
czarnych (accusative plural virile)
czarne (accusative plural)
czarnym (instrumental masculine singular)
czarną (feminine instrumental singular)
czarnym (instrumental neuter singular)
czarnymi (instrumental plural)
czarnymi (instrumental plural virile)
czarnym (locative masculine singular)
czarnej (feminine locative singular)
czarnym (locative neuter singular)
czarnych (locative plural)
czarnych (locative plural virile)

black; dark (standing out from the lighter background with its dark color)

black (belonging to or descended from any of various (African, Aboriginal, etc) ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin)

black (related or coming from with this group)


czarny

czarny (nominative singular)
czarni (nominative plural)
czarnego (genitive singular)
czarnych (genitive plural)
czarnemu (dative singular)
czarnym (dative plural)
czarnego (accusative singular)
czarnych (accusative plural)
czarnym (instrumental singular)
czarnymi (instrumental plural)
czarnym (locative singular)
czarnych (locative plural)
czarny (singular vocative)
czarni (plural vocative)


sacrament of reconciliation

en-noun

sacrament of reconciliation (plural sacraments of reconciliation)

(Roman Catholicism) The sacrament (sacred ritual) also called confession, involving contrition by a person, confessing sins to a priest, penance performed by the person, and absolution granted by the priest.

告解聖事

sacrament involving contrition, confession, penance, and absolution


папа

mk-noun

папа • (papa) m (plural папи, relational adjective папски)

papa (romanization)
папи (plural)
папски (adjective relational)
папа (indefinite singular)
папи (indefinite plural)
папата (definite singular unspecified)
папите (definite plural unspecified)
папава (definite proximal singular)
папиве (definite plural proximal)
папана (definite distal singular)
папине (definite distal plural)
папо (singular vocative)
папи (plural vocative)


confessional

The confessional's chief amusement has been seduction–in all the ages of the Church.

c. 1909, Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth, Letter XI:

In one of the aisles there was an elaborately carved confessional box and I recognised the village priest in his heavy mountain boots and black cassock as he entered it and drew the dark velvet curtains behind him.

1956, Delano Ames, chapter 13, in Crime out of Mind:

(Roman Catholicism) A small room where confession—the Sacrament of Penance—is performed in private with a priest.

rrëfyestore

small room where confession is performed


Gregorian chant

en-noun

Gregorian chant (countable and uncountable, plural Gregorian chants)

Named after Pope Gregory I (540–604), and certainly dating back to that time in some form, but the exact origin is a matter of ongoing research.

(music) A style of unaccompanied monophonic singing in the Catholic Church.


conventual

en-adj

conventual (comparative more conventual, superlative most conventual)

more conventual (comparative)
most conventual (superlative)

From Medieval Latin conventuālis, from Latin conventus (“convent”).

The noise of her steps, light as they were, attracted the stranger's notice, who, turning round and letting her mantle fall as she did so, showed a tall and stately figure, dressed in what appeared to be some conventual costume.

1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Disclosure”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 304:

The Sunday Times has convinced me I ought to immediately start out on a new regime of positively conventual austerity in order to reduce the burden on a strained NHS by not forcing them to have to cope with my ling cancer or coronary.

1976, Angela Carter, “Health on the Brain”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 82:

The Breton Club resumed its meetings in the refectory of an empty conventual building in the rue Saint-Jacques.

1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial, published 2007, page 267:

Pertaining to a convent or convent life; cloistered, monastic.


Trappist

From French trappiste, from La Trappe Abbey, the monastery where the order was originated.

A monk or nun of the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance (a branch of the Cistercians Roman Catholic religious brotherhood that use a particularly strict interpretation of the Rule of St Benedict).

trappist

a monk or nun of the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance


anamnesis

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀνάμνησις (anámnēsis, “remembrance”), verbal noun of ἀναμιμνήσκω (anamimnḗskō), from ἀνα- (ana-) + μιμνῄσκω (mimnḗiskō, “call to mind”).

affix

(Catholicism) a liturgical statement in which the Church refers to the memorial character of the Eucharist or to the Passion, Resurrection and Ascension of Christ


sette peccati capitali

it-noun

sette peccati capitali m pl (plural only)

Meronyms: lussuria, gola, avarizia, accidia, ira, invidia, superbia


siete pecados capitales

es-noun

siete pecados capitales m pl (plural only)

Meronyms: avaricia, envidia, gula, pereza, ira, lujuria, soberbia


sept péchés capitaux

Meronyms: avarice, colère, envie, gourmandise, luxure, orgueil, paresse


七つの大罪

七つの大罪 (canonical)
nanatsu no taizai (romanization)


seven deadly sins

From Middle English dedly synnes sueyn, vij dedly synnes.

(Catholicism) The cardinal sins enumerated by medieval philosophers and theologians: pride (or vanity, vainglory), envy, gluttony, greed (or avarice), lust, sloth (or acedia), and wrath (or anger).


psalter

From Middle English psauter & sauter, from Old French psautier & saltier, from Latin psalterium (“a kind of lute or zither”), from Ancient Greek ψαλτήριον (psaltḗrion, “harp”). Doublet of psalterion, psalterium, and psaltery.

quinquagene

a collection of 50 psalms, typically with commentary

(Catholicism) Synonym of breviary, which arranges the Psalms for devotional recitation.

(Catholicism) A rosary with 150 beads, used for reciting the Psalms in Catholic editions of the Bible.


Ash Wednesday

From Middle English Aschewednysday, Axwednesdai, from asshe, axe (“ash”) + Wednesdai, Wednysday (“Wednesday”), from the custom of using the blessed ashes of the previous year's palm fronds (cf. Palm Sunday) to mark the heads of the congregation on the day. By surface analysis, ash + Wednesday.

Pope Gregory the Great introduced the sprinkling of ashes... which gave it the name of Ash-Wednesday.

1834, Penny Cyclopaedia, volume II, page 454:

(Christianity) The Wednesday 46 days before Easter in a given year, (Catholicism) traditionally observed as the beginning of Lent and a day of strict abstention from certain foods and pleasures.

Մոխրոտ չորեքշաբթի

the Christian day of penitence 46 days before Easter


Judica Sunday

From Latin Judica (“Judge!”), from the first word of the introit of the day's mass, traditionally a Latin translation of Psalm 43.

Thus in 1647, I in all humility accepted this removal, and preached my trial sermon on Judica Sunday, in the presence of the parishioners and commissaries.

1862, Mrs. Malcolm (translator), Gustav Freytag (author), Martin Bötzinger (primary source), Pictures of German Life In the XVᵗʰ, XVIᵗʰ and XVIIᵗʰ Centuries, volume 2, page 115, Chapman and Hall (London)

The diet at Nuremberg was to be held on Invocavit Sunday, 2nd March, and that at the Emperor’s Court on Judica''' Sunday, 3Oth March.

1906, Ludwig Pastor, The History of the Popes: From the Close of the Middle Ages, page 96:

The fifth Sunday is “Judicia.” (Judge. Psalm 43:I.) Judicia Sunday is sometimes also called Black Sunday in contrast with the Sunday before it, and the nearness of the dark sorrows of Passion Week and Good Friday.

1950, “Luther League Review”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), Lutheran Church in America:

(Roman Catholicism) Synonym of Passion Sunday: the fifth Sunday in Lent.


rama

id-noun

rama (first-person possessive ramaku, second-person possessive ramamu, third-person possessive ramanya)

ramaku (first-person possessive)
ramamu (possessive second-person)
ramanya (possessive third-person)

From Malay rama, from Classical Malay rama.

(Catholicism) standard spelling of romo (“priest”).


sete pecados capitais

pt-noun

sete pecados capitais m pl (plural only)

Meronyms: avareza, inveja, gula, preguiça, ira, luxúria, orgulho


aalmoezenier

nl-noun

aalmoezenier m (plural aalmoezeniers, diminutive aalmoezeniertje n)

aalmoezeniers (plural)
aalmoezeniertje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: aalmoesenier

From Middle Dutch aelmoeseniere, from Old French almosnier, from Late Latin eleēmosynārius.

(Roman Catholicism, historical) Roman Catholic chaplain, padre


Tridentine

en-adj

Tridentine (comparative more Tridentine, superlative most Tridentine)

more Tridentine (comparative)
most Tridentine (superlative)

From Latin Tridentīnus (“pertaining to Trent”).

bor

(Catholicism) Pertaining to the form of Mass promulgated at the Council of Trent, often called the Tridentine Mass.

(Catholicism) Aligned with the traditionalist Catholic movement.


magistery

en-noun

magistery (countable and uncountable, plural magisteries)

/ˈmæd͡ʒɪstəɹi/

/ˈmæd͡ʒəˌstəɹi/

PIE word
 *méǵh₂s
From Middle English magisteri, magistery (“academic degree of Master”), from Latin magisterium (“office of a chief, director, president, or superintendent; teaching office or authority of the Roman Catholic Church; authoritative statement”) (compare Late Latin magisterium (“philosopher’s stone”)), from magister (“master (title for a person in authority or one having a licence from a university to teach liberal arts and philosophy); teacher”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s (“big, great”) + *-teros (contrastive or oppositional suffix forming adjectives)) + -ium (suffix forming abstract nouns, sometimes denoting groups and offices). Doublet of magisterium. Cognate with French magistère, Old French magisteire.

der

(uncountable, Roman Catholicism) Synonym of magisterium (“the teaching authority or office of the Roman Catholic Church”)


aggiornamento

/əˌdʒɔːnəˈmɛntəʊ/

/əˌd͡ʒɔɹnəˈmɛntoʊ/

From Italian aggiornamento. Doublet of adjournment.

Aggiornamento with the increasingly truculent magistrates was a major plank of Choiseul's recovery strategy for the state.

2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 249:

A bringing up to date, especially of the Roman Catholic Church by the Second Vatican Council of 1962-65; modernization.

uudistus

reform of some teachings of Roman Catholic Church in 1962-65


aggiornamento

id-noun

aggiornamento (plural aggiornamento-aggiornamento, first-person possessive aggiornamentoku, second-person possessive aggiornamentomu, third-person possessive aggiornamentonya)

aggiornamento-aggiornamento (plural)
aggiornamentoku (first-person possessive)
aggiornamentomu (possessive second-person)
aggiornamentonya (possessive third-person)

Unadapted borrowing from Italian aggiornamento (“update, updating; adjournment, recess”).

ubor

(Roman Catholicism) aggiornamento: bringing up to date, especially of the Roman Catholic Church by the Second Vatican Council of 1962-65


pornocracy

/pɔːˈnɒkɹəsɪ/

Alfred Edersheim
Bartolomeo Platina
Bzovius
Pope Sergius III

Probably borrowed from German Pornokratie, first found in the writings of Austrian-born Biblical scholar Alfred Edersheim (1825–1889), from Ancient Greek πόρνη (pórnē, “female prostitute”) + -κρᾰτῐ́ᾱ (-kratíā, “-cracy”, suffix indicating “government, rule”); analysable as porno- + -cracy.

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Bartolomeo Platina, Onofrio Panvinio, Antonio Cicarelli, Giovanni Stringa, Abraamo Bzovio [i.e., Abraham Bzowski, known as Bzovius] with Antonio Bagatta and Nicol'Angelo Caferri (1663) Le vite de’ pontefici di Bartolomeo Platina: dal Saluator Nostro fino a Paolo II. Accresciute con quelle de’ papi da Sisto Quarto fino ad Alessandro VII., da Onofrio Panuinio, Antonio Cicarelli, Giouanni Stringa, Abraamo Bzouio e Antonio Bagatta. Con le annotationi del Panuinio, e con la Cronologia ecclesiastica dello stesso. Aggiuntoui la vita del Platina scritta dal Sign. Nicol’Angelo Caferri [The Lives of the Popes of Bartolomeo Platina: From Our Saviour to Paul II. Augmented with those of the Popes from Sixtus IV to Alexander VII, by Onofrio Panvinio, Antonio Cicarelli, Giovanni Stringa, Abraham Bzowski, and Antonio Bagatta. With the Annotations of Panvinio, and with the Ecclesiastical Chronology of the Same. Supplemented with the Life of Platina Written by Sign. Nicol’Angelo Caferri], Venice: Presso Gio, Maria Turrini, e Gio, Pietro Brigonci, →OCLC.

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Under the pornocracy (government of harlots) in the first half of the 10th century, the Papacy was degraded and all Italy torn by factions.

1855, C. Ullmann, “[Second Book. John of Wesel, or The Necessity for the Reformation in Reference to Particular Things in the Church, Especially Indulgences, and the Corruption of the Clergy.] Introduction”, in Robert Menzies, transl., Reformers before the Reformation, Principally in Germany and the Netherlands (Clark's Foreign Theological Library, New Series; VI), volumes I (The Need of a Reformation in Reference to the General Spirit of the Church and Certain Particular Abuses), Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 38 George Street; London: Hamilton, Adams, and Co.; Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.; Ward and Co.; Jackson and Walford, etc.; Dublin: John Robertson, and Hodges and Smith, →OCLC, page 166:

Monsters of impurity, avaricious wretches, poisoners, have occupied the papal see. A learned bishop (Maret of the General Council) expresses himself with holy indignation in reference to the frightful enormities of the tenth century. This epoch deserves to be designated under the title of the Pornocracy; that is to say, the government of prostitutes, for Theodora, Marozia, and other ladies of rank at that time, placed on the pontifical throne their paramours and their sons, who were no better than themselves.

1870 July, Jean-Henri Merle d’Aubigné, “Art. VII.—Dr Merle D’Aubigne on the Council and Infallibility. The Council and Infallibility: An Address Delivered at Geneva, 10th December 1869, by M. Merle D’Aubigne, D.D. Paris: Michel Levy, 1870.”, in The British and Foreign Evangelical Review, volume XIX, number LXXIII, London: James Nisbet & Co., Berners Street; Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, →OCLC, page 591:

(Roman Catholicism, historical, sometimes capitalized) The period of the papacy known as the saeculum obscūrum (Latin for “dark age”), and also as the “Rule of the Harlots”, which began with the installation of Pope Sergius III in 904 and lasted for sixty years until the death of Pope John XII in 964, during which time the popes were strongly influenced by the Theophylacti, a powerful and corrupt aristocratic family.

Парнакра́тыя

period of the papacy known as the saeculum obscurum


biblia

From Latin biblia, from Ancient Greek βιβλία (biblía), plural of βιβλίον (biblíon, “book”). More at bible.

bible (a comprehensive manual that describes something)


hyperdulia

en-noun

hyperdulia (usually uncountable, plural hyperdulias)

/hʌɪpəduːˈlʌɪə/

From Medieval Latin hyperdūlīa, from hyper-, from Ancient Greek ὑπέρ (hupér, “above”) + dūlīa, from Ancient Greek δουλείᾱ (douleíā, “slavery”), from δοῦλος (doûlos, “slave”).

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By the thirteenth century, the growth of devotion to Mary, the Mother of God, in both East and West led John of Damascus's admirer Thomas Aquinas to formalize a further refinement: the concept of an exceptional sort of veneration, hyperdulia, offered only to the greatest of God's creations, Mary, the mother of Jesus.

2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 451:

(Roman Catholicism) A level of veneration higher than dulia but less than latria, properly given to the Virgin Mary only.


cha

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(dated or literary or Catholicism) a father


detraction

en-noun

detraction (countable and uncountable, plural detractions)

/dɪˈtɹækʃən/

From Middle English detraction, detraccion, detraccioun, from Old French detraccion, from Latin dētractiō.

(Roman Catholicism) The act of revealing previously unknown faults of another person to a third person.


prothonotary

From Middle English prothonotarie, from Medieval Latin protonotarius, from Byzantine Greek πρωτονοτάριος (prōtonotários), from Ancient Greek πρῶτος (prôtos) + Byzantine Greek νοτάριος (notários), from Latin notārius (“notary”).

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πρωτονοτάριος

(Roman Catholicism) One of the seven prelates, constituting a college in the Roman Curia, whose office is to register pontifical acts and to make and preserve the official record of beatifications.


swim the Tiber

en-verb

swim the Tiber (third-person singular simple present swims the Tiber, present participle swimming the Tiber, simple past swam the Tiber, past participle swum the Tiber)

swims the Tiber (present singular third-person)
swimming the Tiber (participle present)
swam the Tiber (past)
swum the Tiber (participle past)

(intransitive) To convert to Catholicism.


chaplet

From Middle English chapelet, from Old French chapelet. Doublet of chapelet.

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The Chaplet of the Seven Sorrows of Mary consists of seven sets of Hail Marys.

(Catholicism) A set of repetitive prayers, other than the Rosary, typically prayed with a string of beads.

People often pray the chaplet at 3:00 pm to commemorate Jesus' death.

(specifically) The Chaplet of Divine Mercy, the most well-known chaplet in the Catholic Church.


archdiocese

/ˌɑɹt͡ʃˈdaɪəsɪs/

Ultimately from Medieval Latin archdiocesis, variant of archidioecēsis, from archi- (“chief, main”) + Late Latin dioecēsis, q.v., equivalent to arch- + diocese.

(Christianity) A group of dioceses administered by an archbishop


confessor

From Middle English confessor, confessour, from Anglo-Norman confessour, and its source, Latin cōnfessor, from cōnfiteor (“confess, admit, acknowledge”).

They do not feel connected to any gay/lesbian communities. Nor do they feel able to establish relationships with anyone who can support them. Thus an inexperienced but sincere young heterosexual actor can find himself playing not only role model but also confessor and phantom friend to people in great need.

1994 October, Larry Gross, “Coming Out On the Soaps”, in Gay Community News, page 14:

(Eastern Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism) A priest who hears confession and then gives absolution


confessor

pt-noun

confessor m (plural confessores, feminine confessora, feminine plural confessoras)

confessores (plural)
confessora (feminine)
confessoras (feminine plural)

(Roman Catholicism) confessor (priest who hears confession)


Clare

Medieval English vernacular form of Clara, from the Latin clara, feminine of clarus (“bright, shining, clear”), a post-classical name made famous by the 13th century Saint Clara of Assisi.
In Oxfordshire, from Clarora, a clay slope.

The chief house of the Clares in England stood near Aldgate; it was built by Blanche, queen of Navarre, and her husband Edmund, earl of Lancaster, Leicester and Darby, son to Henry III. and brother to Edward I. These nuns were Urbanists, and enjoyed revenues. They were called Clares or Minoresses, and their house the Minories...

1759, Alban Butler, The Lives of the... Saints, volume IV, page 87:

(Catholicism) Synonym of Poor Clare: a nun of the Order of Saint Clare.


short shrift

en-noun

short shrift (countable and uncountable, plural short shrifts)

/ˌʃɔːt ˈʃɹɪft/

/ˌʃɔɹt ˈʃɹɪft/

From short + shrift (“act of going to or hearing a religious confession; confession to a priest”). Shrift is derived from Middle English shrift (“confession to a priest; act or instance of this; sacrament of penance; penance assigned by a priest; penitence, repentance; punishment for sin”) [and other forms], from Late Old English scryft, Old English sċrift (“penance, shrift; something prescribed as punishment, penalty; one who passes sentence, a judge”), from sċrīfan (“of a priest: to prescribe absolution or penance; to pass judgment, ordain, prescribe; to appoint, decree”) (whence shrive), from Proto-Germanic *skrībaną (“to write”), from Latin scrībō (“to write”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreybʰ- (“to scratch, tear”).

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schrift, schrifte, scheryft, schryft, schryfte, scrifft, scrifte, sherift, shirfte, shreft, shrif, shrifft, shrifte, shrive, shruft, shryft, shryfte, (Kent, Southwest England) ssriffe, ssrift, ssrifthe, ssrifþe, ssrifte, ssryft, ssryfte, (chiefly Northern England or Early Middle English) scrif, scrift, scrifte, shreft, (Early Middle English) screft, srift, srifte

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Diſpatch my Lo[rd] the Duke would be at dinner: / Make a ſhort ſhrift, he longs to ſee your head.

c. 1593 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The Tragedy of King Richard the Third. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Valentine Sims [and Peter Short] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1597, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:

I pray you, tell my kind cousin, if he loves such companions, he had best keep them in his own estates; for here they are like to meet short shrift and a tight cord.

1823, [Walter Scott], “The Envoy”, in Quentin Durward. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 213:

"Doubt not my sanctity," interrupted the Friar, "or I shall be necessitated to convince thee, by shewing thee a cast of my office which will make thee repent of thy error. I am used to give short shrifts and sharp cords."

1829, T. D., “A Tale of Robin Hood”, in The Whitby Magazine, and Monthly Literary Journal, volume III, Whitby, North Yorkshire: Ralph Horne, […], →OCLC, page 108:

"I demand a brief space and a confessor, to make my peace with heaven." […] "Grant his request," said the archbishop, in a careless tone, which showed that he only spoke to save appearances; "my chaplain, upon whose discretion I can rely, will make short shrift with them."

1853, J[ohn] F[rederick] Smith, “[Elizabeth Woodville] Chapter III”, in Romantic Incidents in the Lives of the Queens of England, New York, N.Y.: Garrett & Company, […], →OCLC, pages 34–35:

[A]n hour was allotted him to make peace with the Unknown; ropes were placed around the necks of the three, and at the end of the time they were given short shrift, and were soon hanging between heaven and earth.

1893, “Story of the Pony Express”, in John M. Burke (“Arizona John”), compiler, “Buffalo Bill” from Prairie to Palace: An Authentic History of the Wild West […], Chicago, Ill., New York, N.Y.: Rand, McNally & Company, →OCLC, page 120:

(countable, uncountable, chiefly Roman Catholicism, historical) A rushed sacrament of confession given to a prisoner who is to be executed very soon.


Quinquagesima

de-noun

f.gen:-:Quinquagesimä􂀿especially without an article􂁀.sg

Quinquagesima f (genitive Quinquagesima or (especially without an article) Quinquagesimä, no plural)

Quinquagesima (genitive)
Quinquagesimä (especially genitive)
Quinquagesima (nominative singular)
Quinquagesima (genitive singular)
Quinquagesimä (genitive singular)
Quinquagesima (dative singular)
Quinquagesima (accusative singular)

From Medieval Latin quinquagesima dies (“50th day”).


deacon

Inherited from Old English diacon, from Ecclesiastical Latin diāconus, from Ancient Greek διᾱ́κονος (diā́konos, “servant, minister”).

(Orthodoxy, Catholicism) A clergyman ranked directly below a priest, with duties of helping the priests and carrying out parish work.


神父

/ʂən³⁵ fu⁵¹/

/sɐn²¹ fuː²²/

/siŋ⁵³⁻²¹ ⁽ʰ⁻⁾ŋou²⁴²/

/sin¹³⁻²² hu²²/

/sin²⁴⁻¹¹ hu³³/

/sin²³⁻³³ hu³³/

/sin²⁴⁻²² hu²²/

/sin²⁴⁻²² hu³³/

/sin²⁴⁻²² hu²²/

/ʂən³⁵ fu⁵¹/

/sɐn²¹ fuː²²/

/siŋ⁵³⁻²¹ ⁽ʰ⁻⁾ŋou²⁴²/

/sin¹³⁻²² hu²²/

/sin²⁴⁻¹¹ hu³³/

/sin²³⁻³³ hu³³/

/sin²⁴⁻²² hu²²/

/sin²⁴⁻²² hu³³/

/sin²⁴⁻²² hu²²/

(Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy) father; priest


神父

(Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy) a father, a priest


Horologium

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Christian Huygens
Horologium (constellation)
Horologium Oscillitorium
Nicolas Louis de Lacaille
Solarium Augusti
Tower of the Winds

See horologium. As a location in Rome, a clipping of Latin Hōrologium Augustī (“Sundial of Augustus”). As a constellation, a clipping of Latin Hōrologium Oscillitorium (“Pendulum Clock”), coined in 1763 by the French astronomer De Lacaille to honor the Dutch astronomer and mathematician Christian Huygens, who had written a major work by that name.

bor

(Christianity) Alternative letter-case form of horologium, the book of hours in the Eastern Orthodox and Catholic churches.


pyxis

nl-noun

pyxis f (plural pyxiden or pyxissen, diminutive pyxisje n)

pyxiden (plural)
pyxissen (plural)
pyxisje (diminutive neuter)

Borrowed from Latin pyxis, from Ancient Greek πυξίς (puxís). Doublet of box, buks (“shotgun”), and bus (“container”).

doublet

(Roman Catholicism) a small box for storing consecrated hosts, e.g. in a tabernacle or for travel when tending to the sick


Pyxis

de-noun

Pyxis f (genitive Pyxis, plural Pyxiden or Pyxides)

Pyxis (genitive)
Pyxiden (plural)
Pyxides (plural)
Pyxis (nominative singular)
Pyxiden (definite nominative plural)
Pyxides (definite nominative plural)
Pyxis (genitive singular)
Pyxiden (definite genitive plural)
Pyxides (definite genitive plural)
Pyxis (dative singular)
Pyxiden (dative definite plural)
Pyxides (dative definite plural)
Pyxis (accusative singular)
Pyxiden (accusative definite plural)
Pyxides (accusative definite plural)

Borrowed from Latin pyxis (literally “little box”).

bor+

(Roman Catholicism) pyx (small container used to hold the host)


horologium

en-noun

horologium (plural horologiums or horologia)

/hɔɹəˈloʊd͡ʒiəm/

/hɔɹəˈloʊɡiəm/

/hɒɹəˈləʊd͡ʒɪəm/

/hɒɹəˈləʊɡɪəm/

From Latin horologium, from Ancient Greek ὡρολόγιον (hōrológion). In reference to Eastern Orthodoxy, via its Byzantine Greek development. See menologium. Doublet of horologe.

(Christianity) Synonym of horologion, the book of hours in Eastern Orthodoxy and Catholicism.


pyx

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The noun is derived from Late Middle English pix, pixe (“vessel for holding a host, pyx; hip bone socket, pyxis”) [and other forms], from Late Latin pyxis (“vessel for holding a host”), Latin pyxis (“small box for medicines or toiletries; box holding sample coins for testing; hip bone socket; sailor's compass”), from Koine Greek πυξίς (puxís), Ancient Greek πῠξῐ́ς (puxís, “box; box or tablet made of boxwood; cylinder”), from πῠ́ξος (púxos, “box tree; boxwood”) + -ῐς (-is, suffix forming feminine nouns). Doublet of box, piseog, and pyxis.
The verb is derived from the noun.

ref

From the collection of the Musée de Cluny in Paris, France.

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[F]oraſmuche as we have often and many tymes, to our inwarde regrete and diſpleaſure, ſeen at oure Jen, in diverſe and many Churches of our Realme, the holie Sacrament of the Aulter kept in ful simple and inhoneſt Pixes, ſpecially Pixes of copre and tymbre: we have appointed and commaunded the Treſourer of our Chambre, and Maiſtre of our Juellhouſe, to cauſe to be made furthwith Pixes of ſilver and gilte, in a greate nombre, for the keping of the holie Sacrament of th'Aultre, after the faction of a Pixe that we have cauſed to be delivered to theim, […]

1509 April 20 (Gregorian calendar), Henry VII of England, edited by [Thomas Astle], The Will of King Henry VII, London: Printed for the editor; and sold by T[homas] Payne, […]; and B[enjamin] White, […], published 1775, →OCLC, pages 37–38:

With Croſſes, Relicks, Crucifixes, / Beads, Pictures, Roſaries and Pixes: / The Tools of working out Salvation, / By meer Mechanick Operation.

1677 (indicated as 1678), [Samuel Butler], “[The Third Part of Hudibras]. Canto I.”, in Hudibras. The Third and Last Part. […], London: […] Robert Horne, […], published 1679, →OCLC; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC, page 86:

They have Pixes and Chalices for the Bleſſed Sacrament five hundred and fifty, ſome of pure Gold, others of Silver and Criſtal; and among them, is one that was offer'd to our Bleſſed Saviour, by one of the three Kings, when they came to Worſhip him, and brought Preſents.

1702, [William Bromley], “[In Italy]”, in Several Years Travels through Portugal, Spain, Italy, Germany, Prussia, Sweden, Denmark and the United Provinces. […], London: […] A[bel] Roper, […], R. Basset […], and W. Turner […], →OCLC, page 52:

The slight breach was fortunately committed by a distant relation of the Archbishop of Toledo, and consisted merely in his entering the church intoxicated, (a rare vice in Spaniards), attempting to drag the matin preacher from the pulpit, and failing in that, getting astride as well as he could on the altar, dashing down the tapers, overturning the vases and the pix, and trying to scratch out, as with the talons of a demon, the painting that hung over the table, uttering all the while the most horrible blasphemies, and even soliciting the portrait of the Virgin in language not to be repeated.

1820, [Charles Robert Maturin], chapter V, in Melmoth the Wanderer: A Tale. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Company, and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 273:

[W]here am I to find such a sum? If I sell the very pyx and candlesticks on the altar at Jorvaulx, I shall scarce raise the half; […]

1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter III, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 69:

He [Augustus Pugin] has a most sincere love for his profession, a hearty honest enthusiasm for pixes and piscinas; and though he will never design so much as a pix or piscina thoroughly well, yet better than most of the experimental architects of the day.

1851, John Ruskin, “[Appendix] 12. Romanist Modern Art.”, in The Stones of Venice, volume I (The Foundations), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 373:

In the twelfth century Germany was at the head of artistic movement, and even France sent to her for skilled workmen in the industrial arts. Her treasuries are still rich in the various beautiful objects comprehended under the name of altar furniture, such as chalices, pyxes and monstrances, missals, reliquaries, and so on.

1870 March 26, “Reviews. Ecclesiastical Art in Germany during the Middle Ages. By Dr. Wilhelm Lübke. London: Simpkin & Marshall.”, in The Architect. A Weekly Illustrated Journal of Art, Civil Engineering, and Building, volume III, London: Gilbert Wood; […], →OCLC, page 152, column 2:

Let chalice, pyx and paten, lamp and candelabrum, crozier and mitre be studded with diamonds, rubies, sapphires and emeralds, and further enriched with figured representations of divine persons and things.

1888 July, “Art and Religion. Annual Lecture of Sir [Frederic] Leighton, President of the Royal Academy. London. The Decline of Art. By Francis Turner Palgrave, Professor of Poetry at Oxford.”, in The American Catholic Quarterly Review, volume XIII, number 51, Philadelphia, Pa.: Hardy and Mahony, […], →OCLC, page 412:

They plundered the abbey of Holyrood at their departure, and afterwards the abbeys of Melrose and Dryburgh in their retreat, venting their rage by slaying the prior of Melrose and a few old monks who were too frail to take to flight, and carrying off a pyx from the altar after they had contemptuously thrown away the host.

1893, Thomas Thomson, Charles Annandale, “Reign of Robert Bruce Continued (1318–1326)”, in A History of the Scottish People from the Earliest Times. […], divisional volume I (Earliest Times till Death of Robert Bruce, 1329), London, Glasgow: Blackie & Son, […], →OCLC, page 259, column 1:

And at the same instant perhaps a priest round the corner is elevating it. Dringdring! And two streets off another locking it into a pyx. Dringadring! And in a ladychapel another taking housel all to his own cheek. Dringdring!

1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 3: Proteus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part I [Telemachia], page 40:

Inventory references and examples preserved to this day attest to the fact that pyxes were among the objects most frequently made by Limousin workshops. […] It is likely that, as early as the ninth century, pyxes containing the body of Christ (cum corpore Domini) were placed on the altar and used for the Communion of the sick. […] The pyx from the former Côte Collection is among the oldest and most beautiful examples.

1996, “IV. Limoges in Transition (1190–1230)”, in John P. O’Neill, editor, Enamels of Limoges 1100–1350, New York, N.Y.: Metropolitan Museum of Art, →ISBN, entry 74 (Pyx), page 258:

On one of these visits she asked me to get her pyx, a beautiful, golden, highly decorated container used to carry the hosts for Holy Communion. She gave this to her fellow church worker who gave Mum her last Holy Communion.

2009, Claire Leimbach, Trypheyna McShane, Zenith Virago, “Talking about Death”, in The Intimacy of Death and Dying: Simple Guidance to Help You Through, Crows Nest, N.S.W.: Inspired Living, Allen & Unwin, →ISBN, pages 6–7:

(Roman Catholicism, also figurative) A small, usually round container used to hold the host (“consecrated bread or wafer of the Eucharist”), especially when bringing communion to the sick or others unable to attend Mass.


month's mind

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From Middle English monethes mynde under influence from Medieval Latin dies mensis (“day of the month”) and Old English ġemynd, whose principal sense was "memory".

(Christianity, now chiefly Ireland and Scotland) A requiem mass or other commemoration of a dead person held one month after burial.


magnificat

Unadapted borrowing from Latin magnificat, 3ʳᵈ-person present active indicative of magnificō (“to praise, glorify”). The familiar sense comes from a jocular influence from magnare, variant of mangiare (“to eat”).

ubor

(Catholicism) Magnificat (liturgical canticle)


credo

Borrowed from Latin credō (“to believe”). Doublet of creo.


rane

(Kociewie, Roman Catholicism) Synonym of jutrznia


imprimatur

Learned borrowing from Latin imprimātur (“let it be printed”), third person singular present subjunctive passive form of imprimere (“to imprint”).

learned borrowing

(Catholicism) imprimatur, an official license to publish or print something.


jubilee

en-noun

jubilee (countable and uncountable, plural jubilees)

/ˌd͡ʒuːbɪˈliː/

senses 3.3 and 3.4 when spelled jubile, obsolete

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

From Late Middle English jubile [and other forms], from Middle French jubile, from Old French jubilee, jubileus (modern French jubilé), from Late Latin iūbilaeus (adjective, also treated as a noun), from Ancient Greek ἰωβηλαῖος (iōbēlaîos, “of a jubilee”), from ἰώβηλος (iṓbēlos, “jubilee”) + -ῐος (-ios, suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives). Ἰώβηλος (Iṓbēlos) is derived from Hebrew יוֹבֵל (yōḇēl, “ram, trumpet made from a ram’s horn; jubilee”) (because a ram’s horn trumpet was originally used to proclaim the event; see Leviticus 25:9), influenced by Latin iūbilum (“a cry, a shout”) and iūbilō (“to cheer, shout or sing joyfully”). Cognate with Italian giubileo, Spanish jubileo.

der

(Roman Catholicism) A special year (originally held every hundred years, then at more frequent intervals, and now declarable by the Pope at any time and also for periods less than a year) in which plenary indulgences and remission from sin can be granted upon making a pilgrimage to Rome or other designated churches.

禧年

(Roman Catholicism) special year in which plenary indulgences and remission from sin can be granted upon making a pilgrimage


kapa

kapka (diminutive)
kapa (nominative singular)
kapy (nominative plural)
kapy (genitive singular)
kap (genitive plural)
kapie (dative singular)
kapom (dative plural)
kapę (accusative singular)
kapy (accusative plural)
kapą (instrumental singular)
kapami (instrumental plural)
kapie (locative singular)
kapach (locative plural)
kapo (singular vocative)
kapy (plural vocative)

Learned borrowing from Late Latin cappa. Sense 5 is a semantic loan from Spanish capa.

sl

(Anglicanism, Roman Catholicism) cope, mantle, mantum (long, loose cloak worn by a priest, deacon, or bishop when presiding over a ceremony other than the Mass)


consistory

Inherited from Middle English consistorie, from Old Northern French consistorie (“secular tribunal”) (Old French consistoire), and Late Latin consistorium (“waiting room, meeting place of the imperial council”). Meaning "Church council" is from early 14th century.

der

And so were many greate and heighnous maters Obiected against S. Ambrose, because he refused to haue the cause betwene himselfe and the Heretike Auxentius, to be tried in the Consistorie of the Emperour, before Secular Iudges.

1566, John Rastell, The Third Book, Declaring by Examples out of Ancient Councels, Fathers, and Later Writers, that it is Time to Beware of M. Iewel, Antwerp, folio 23ʳ:

(obsolete, Early Modern) A civil court of justice.


veronica

A veil that had wiped off the sweat of Christ? Who could possibly believe that? (…) The only true Veronica of this century was the veronica of the matador – the classic slow swing of the cape before the bull’s face, imitating that holy wiping, mocking it.

1973, Nicholas Monsarrat, The Kapillan of Malta:

He wiped the lady’s martini glass, having had some trouble with a kind of veronica of lipstick, spat in it viciously, then washed it again.

(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.

véronique

(Roman Catholicism) image of Jesus's face on a cloth; the cloth itself


Hieronymite

A member of any of various mediaeval congregations of hermits named after St. Jerome.


venial sin

(Roman Catholicism, theology) A sin that is not a mortal sin; a sin that is not grave, or was not deliberate or was committed without a full understanding of the consequences.


mortal sin

en-noun

mortal sin (countable and uncountable, plural mortal sins)

(Roman Catholicism, theology) A sin which causes the loss of God's grace, leading to eternal damnation, unless the sinner repents, which includes their intent to confess and atone; such a sin is defined as a grave transgression against one of the Ten Commandments with the full knowledge and deliberate consent of the sinner.

deadly sin

strictly a different concept, though often used interchangeably


pape

Haitian Creole: pap

→ Persian: پاپ (pâp)

Inherited from Middle French pape, from Old French pape, from Ecclesiastical Latin papa, from early Byzantine Greek παπᾶς (papâs, “patriarch, bishop”), from late Ancient Greek πάπας (pápas).

der

Le pape est mort.


syndic

LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-syndic.wav

Borrowed from French syndic (“delegated representative; a chief magistrate of Geneva; a censor; critic (obsolete)”), from Late Latin syndicus (“representative of a corporation or town, syndic”), from Ancient Greek σύνδικος (súndikos, “advocate of a defendant”), from σῠν- (sun-, prefix meaning ‘together, with’) + δῐ́κη (díkē, “law, order; right; judgment; justice; lawsuit; trial”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ- (“to point out”)) + -ος (-os, suffix forming nouns).

ref

From the collection of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam in the Netherlands.

der

The larger powers with which the syndic was invested by Martin IV and by his successors, Martin V ("Constitutiones Martinianae") in Wadding, "Annales", X, 301) and Paul IV ("Ex Clementi", 1 July, 1555), gave rise to the appellation syndicus Martinianus in contradistinction to syndicus communis.

1912, Catholic Encyclopedia - Volume 14, page 385:

(Catholicism) A layperson who is given official responsibility for the finances, care, and civil administration of the nonreligious details of a convent or religious community.


crosier

From Middle English ; originally referring to the staff bearer, from a merger of Old French words crocier (“bearer of a cross”) and croisier (“one who bears or has to do with a cross”), ultimately from Latin crux (“cross”).

A staff with a hooked end similar to a shepherd's crook, or with a cross at the end, carried by an abbot, bishop, or archbishop as a symbol of office.


Albigensian

en-adj

Albigensian (comparative more Albigensian, superlative most Albigensian)

more Albigensian (comparative)
most Albigensian (superlative)

of or relating to the heresy of Catharism, which first took hold in Albi, France


Albigensian

an adherent to Catharism, which first took hold in Albi, France


Franciscan

From Medieval Latin Franciscānus, from Franciscus + -ānus (“-an”).

(Catholicism) A member of the Order of the Friars Minor.

(Catholicism, inexact) A monk or nun of related orders such as the Poor Clares.


Franciscan

(Catholicism) Of or related to the Franciscans.


ex cathedra

(Roman Catholicism) with the infallible authority of the Pope


ex cathedra

pl-adj

ex cathedra (not comparable, no derived adverb)

Unadapted borrowing from Latin ex cathedrā.

ubor

(Roman Catholicism, postpositive) ex cathedra (with the infallible authority of the Pope)


sede

(Christianity, Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy) see


chapitre

English: chapter; chapiter

Scots: chaipter

Borrowed from Old French chapitre, from Latin capitulum.

Such an assembly convoked to decide cases of canon law.


kantor

pl-noun

kantor m pers (female equivalent kantorka, related adjective kantorski or kantoralny)

kantorka (feminine)
kantorski (adjective)
kantoralny (adjective)
kantor (nominative singular)
kantorzy (nominative plural)
kantorowie (nominative plural)
kantora (genitive singular)
kantorów (genitive plural)
kantorowi (dative singular)
kantorom (dative plural)
kantora (accusative singular)
kantorów (accusative plural)
kantorem (instrumental singular)
kantorami (instrumental plural)
kantorze (locative singular)
kantorach (locative plural)
kantorze (singular vocative)
kantorzy (plural vocative)
kantorowie (plural vocative)

Learned borrowing from Latin cantor. Compare Kashubian kantór.

(Protestantism, Roman Catholicism) cantor (singer, especially someone who takes a special role of singing or song leading at a ceremony)


excommunicate

From Ecclesiastical Latin, Late Latin excommunicātus, perfect passive participle of excommunicō (“put out of the community”). By surface analysis, ex- + communicate. Displaced native Old English āmǣnsumian.

[…]the iewes had conſpyred allredy that yff eny man did confeſſe that he was Chriſt / he ſhulde be excommunicat out of the Sinagoge.

1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, John ix:[22], folio cxxxiiij, verso:

Thou ſhalt ſtand curſt, and excommunicate[…]

c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], page 9, column 2:


excommunicate

en-verb

excommunicate (third-person singular simple present excommunicates, present participle excommunicating, simple past and past participle excommunicated)

excommunicates (present singular third-person)
excommunicating (participle present)
excommunicated (participle past)
excommunicated (past)

Samois includes celebate ^([sic]), heterosexual and bisexual women as well as lesbians, and I feel very strongly that this is the wisest choice. Our community is so fragile that we can't afford to fragment it by excommunicating non-lesbian women.

1982 December 18, Pat Califa, “Open Policy”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 22, page 5:

Although our Macs served us well, in those early, dark years Macintosh users were effectively excommunicated by the computer establishment.

1987, InfoWorld, volume 9, number 37, page 46:

(transitive, historical or figurative) To exclude from any other group; to banish.


catechesis

en-noun

catechesis (countable and uncountable, plural catecheses)

Learned borrowing from Latin catēchēsis, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek κατήχησις (katḗkhēsis), from κατηχέω (katēkhéō, “sound through, instruct orally, catechise”).

Religious instruction given orally to catechumens.


selig

de-adj

selig (strong nominative masculine singular seliger, comparative seliger, superlative am seligsten)

seliger (masculine nominative singular strong)
seliger (comparative)
am seligsten (superlative)
selig (masculine predicative singular)
selig (feminine predicative singular)
selig (neuter predicative singular)
selig (plural predicative)
seliger (masculine nominative singular strong without-article)
selige (feminine nominative singular strong without-article)
seliges (neuter nominative singular strong without-article)
selige (nominative plural strong without-article)
seligen (genitive masculine singular strong without-article)
seliger (feminine genitive singular strong without-article)
seligen (genitive neuter singular strong without-article)
seliger (genitive plural strong without-article)
seligem (dative masculine singular strong without-article)
seliger (dative feminine singular strong without-article)
seligem (dative neuter singular strong without-article)
seligen (dative plural strong without-article)
seligen (accusative masculine singular strong without-article)
selige (accusative feminine singular strong without-article)
seliges (accusative neuter singular strong without-article)
selige (accusative plural strong without-article)
der selige (definite includes-article masculine nominative singular weak)
die selige (definite feminine includes-article nominative singular weak)
das selige (definite includes-article neuter nominative singular weak)
die seligen (definite includes-article nominative plural weak)
des seligen (definite genitive includes-article masculine singular weak)
der seligen (definite feminine genitive includes-article singular weak)
des seligen (definite genitive includes-article neuter singular weak)
der seligen (definite genitive includes-article plural weak)
dem seligen (dative definite includes-article masculine singular weak)
der seligen (dative definite feminine includes-article singular weak)
dem seligen (dative definite includes-article neuter singular weak)
den seligen (dative definite includes-article plural weak)
den seligen (accusative definite includes-article masculine singular weak)
die selige (accusative definite feminine includes-article singular weak)
das selige (accusative definite includes-article neuter singular weak)
die seligen (accusative definite includes-article plural weak)
ein seliger (includes-article indefinite masculine mixed nominative singular)
eine selige (feminine includes-article indefinite mixed nominative singular)
ein seliges (includes-article indefinite mixed neuter nominative singular)
seligen (indefinite mixed nominative plural)
keine seligen (includes-article indefinite mixed negative nominative plural)
eines seligen (genitive includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
einer seligen (feminine genitive includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
eines seligen (genitive includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
seligen (genitive indefinite mixed plural)
keiner seligen (genitive includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
einem seligen (dative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
einer seligen (dative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
einem seligen (dative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
seligen (dative indefinite mixed plural)
keinen seligen (dative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
einen seligen (accusative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
eine selige (accusative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
ein seliges (accusative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
seligen (accusative indefinite mixed plural)
keine seligen (accusative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
seliger (comparative masculine predicative singular)
seliger (comparative feminine predicative singular)
seliger (comparative neuter predicative singular)
seliger (comparative plural predicative)
seligerer (comparative masculine nominative singular strong without-article)
seligere (comparative feminine nominative singular strong without-article)
seligeres (comparative neuter nominative singular strong without-article)
seligere (comparative nominative plural strong without-article)
seligeren (comparative genitive masculine singular strong without-article)
seligerer (comparative feminine genitive singular strong without-article)
seligeren (comparative genitive neuter singular strong without-article)
seligerer (comparative genitive plural strong without-article)
seligerem (comparative dative masculine singular strong without-article)
seligerer (comparative dative feminine singular strong without-article)
seligerem (comparative dative neuter singular strong without-article)
seligeren (comparative dative plural strong without-article)
seligeren (accusative comparative masculine singular strong without-article)
seligere (accusative comparative feminine singular strong without-article)
seligeres (accusative comparative neuter singular strong without-article)
seligere (accusative comparative plural strong without-article)
der seligere (comparative definite includes-article masculine nominative singular weak)
die seligere (comparative definite feminine includes-article nominative singular weak)
das seligere (comparative definite includes-article neuter nominative singular weak)
die seligeren (comparative definite includes-article nominative plural weak)
des seligeren (comparative definite genitive includes-article masculine singular weak)
der seligeren (comparative definite feminine genitive includes-article singular weak)
des seligeren (comparative definite genitive includes-article neuter singular weak)
der seligeren (comparative definite genitive includes-article plural weak)
dem seligeren (comparative dative definite includes-article masculine singular weak)
der seligeren (comparative dative definite feminine includes-article singular weak)
dem seligeren (comparative dative definite includes-article neuter singular weak)
den seligeren (comparative dative definite includes-article plural weak)
den seligeren (accusative comparative definite includes-article masculine singular weak)
die seligere (accusative comparative definite feminine includes-article singular weak)
das seligere (accusative comparative definite includes-article neuter singular weak)
die seligeren (accusative comparative definite includes-article plural weak)
ein seligerer (comparative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed nominative singular)
eine seligere (comparative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed nominative singular)
ein seligeres (comparative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter nominative singular)
seligeren (comparative indefinite mixed nominative plural)
keine seligeren (comparative includes-article indefinite mixed negative nominative plural)
eines seligeren (comparative genitive includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
einer seligeren (comparative feminine genitive includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
eines seligeren (comparative genitive includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
seligeren (comparative genitive indefinite mixed plural)
keiner seligeren (comparative genitive includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
einem seligeren (comparative dative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
einer seligeren (comparative dative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
einem seligeren (comparative dative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
seligeren (comparative dative indefinite mixed plural)
keinen seligeren (comparative dative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
einen seligeren (accusative comparative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
eine seligere (accusative comparative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
ein seligeres (accusative comparative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
seligeren (accusative comparative indefinite mixed plural)
keine seligeren (accusative comparative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
am seligsten (masculine predicative singular superlative)
am seligsten (feminine predicative singular superlative)
am seligsten (neuter predicative singular superlative)
am seligsten (plural predicative superlative)
seligster (masculine nominative singular strong superlative without-article)
seligste (feminine nominative singular strong superlative without-article)
seligstes (neuter nominative singular strong superlative without-article)
seligste (nominative plural strong superlative without-article)
seligsten (genitive masculine singular strong superlative without-article)
seligster (feminine genitive singular strong superlative without-article)
seligsten (genitive neuter singular strong superlative without-article)
seligster (genitive plural strong superlative without-article)
seligstem (dative masculine singular strong superlative without-article)
seligster (dative feminine singular strong superlative without-article)
seligstem (dative neuter singular strong superlative without-article)
seligsten (dative plural strong superlative without-article)
seligsten (accusative masculine singular strong superlative without-article)
seligste (accusative feminine singular strong superlative without-article)
seligstes (accusative neuter singular strong superlative without-article)
seligste (accusative plural strong superlative without-article)
der seligste (definite includes-article masculine nominative singular superlative weak)
die seligste (definite feminine includes-article nominative singular superlative weak)
das seligste (definite includes-article neuter nominative singular superlative weak)
die seligsten (definite includes-article nominative plural superlative weak)
des seligsten (definite genitive includes-article masculine singular superlative weak)
der seligsten (definite feminine genitive includes-article singular superlative weak)
des seligsten (definite genitive includes-article neuter singular superlative weak)
der seligsten (definite genitive includes-article plural superlative weak)
dem seligsten (dative definite includes-article masculine singular superlative weak)
der seligsten (dative definite feminine includes-article singular superlative weak)
dem seligsten (dative definite includes-article neuter singular superlative weak)
den seligsten (dative definite includes-article plural superlative weak)
den seligsten (accusative definite includes-article masculine singular superlative weak)
die seligste (accusative definite feminine includes-article singular superlative weak)
das seligste (accusative definite includes-article neuter singular superlative weak)
die seligsten (accusative definite includes-article plural superlative weak)
ein seligster (includes-article indefinite masculine mixed nominative singular superlative)
eine seligste (feminine includes-article indefinite mixed nominative singular superlative)
ein seligstes (includes-article indefinite mixed neuter nominative singular superlative)
seligsten (indefinite mixed nominative plural superlative)
keine seligsten (includes-article indefinite mixed negative nominative plural superlative)
eines seligsten (genitive includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular superlative)
einer seligsten (feminine genitive includes-article indefinite mixed singular superlative)
eines seligsten (genitive includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular superlative)
seligsten (genitive indefinite mixed plural superlative)
keiner seligsten (genitive includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural superlative)
einem seligsten (dative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular superlative)
einer seligsten (dative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular superlative)
einem seligsten (dative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular superlative)
seligsten (dative indefinite mixed plural superlative)
keinen seligsten (dative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural superlative)
einen seligsten (accusative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular superlative)
eine seligste (accusative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular superlative)
ein seligstes (accusative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular superlative)
seligsten (accusative indefinite mixed plural superlative)
keine seligsten (accusative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural superlative)

Etymological Dictionary of the German Language

de:Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

From Middle High German sælic, sælec, nominalized sælde, from Old High German sālīg, nominalized sālida, from Proto-West Germanic *sālīg, derived from *sāli.

die selige Jungfrau und Gottesmutter

(Roman Catholicism) blessed (having been beatified)