abbreviator

From Ecclesiastical Latin abbreviātor. Compare French abbréviateur.

(Roman Catholicism, historical) One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty was to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form.


abbreviator

abbreviatoren (definite singular)
abbreviatorer (indefinite plural)
abbreviatorene (definite plural)

NB - Pronunciation of Norwegian Bokmål «abbreviator».ogg

Pius II opprettet i 1463 et kollegium av abbreviatorer.

Pius II established a college of abbreviators in 1463.

(history, Roman Catholicism) abbreviator (one of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty is to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form.)


ablegate

Borrowed from French ablégate, from Latin ablēgātus, perfect passive participle of ablēgō (“I send off or away; banish”), from ab (“from, away from”) + lēgō (“I dispatch, send on a commission”). See legate.

(Roman Catholicism) A representative of the pope charged with important commissions in foreign countries, one of his duties being to bring to a newly named cardinal his insignia of office.

ablegaat

representative of the pope in foreign countries


absolution

en-noun

absolution (countable and uncountable, plural absolutions)

From Middle English absolucion, absolucioun, from Old French absolution, from Latin absolūtiōnem, accusative singular of absolūtiō (“acquittal”), from absolvō (“absolve”). See also absolve.

Governments granting absolution to the nation.

The true aim of medicine is not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard and rescue them from the consequences of their vices. The physician does not preach repentance; he offers absolution.

1919 August, H. L. Mencken, The Smart Set, pages 60–1:

An absolving, or setting free from guilt, sin, or penalty; forgiveness of an offense.

إِبْرَاء

absolving or setting free from guilt, sin or penalty; forgiveness of an offense

absolució

exercise of priestly jurisdiction in the sacrament of penance, by which Catholics believe the sins of the truly penitent are forgiven


absolution

head

absolution c (singular definite absolutionen, plural indefinite absolutioner)

absolutionen (definite singular)
absolutioner (indefinite plural)
absolution (indefinite nominative singular)
absolutionen (definite nominative singular)
absolutioner (indefinite nominative plural)
absolutionerne (definite nominative plural)
absolutions (genitive indefinite singular)
absolutionens (definite genitive singular)
absolutioners (genitive indefinite plural)
absolutionernes (definite genitive plural)

From Latin absolūtiō (“acquittal, absolving”), from absolvō (“I detach; finish; absolve, acquit”).

der

(religion, ecclesiastical) absolution (an absolving of sins from ecclesiastical penalties by an authority, especially in the Catholic or orthodox church)


accensor

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin accēnsor, from accendō (“light, kindle”) + -tor (agent noun suffix). Compare accend.

bor+

(Roman Catholicism) One of the functionaries who light and trim the tapers.


decade

From Middle English decade, from Old French decade, from Late Latin decādem (“(set of) ten”), from Ancient Greek δεκάς (dekás), from δέκα (déka, “ten”). In reference to a span of ten years, originally a clipping of the phrase decade of years. By surface analysis, deca- + -ade. Doublet of decad.

teens · twenties · thirties · forties · fifties · sixties · seventies · eighties · nineties

Gay Nineties · Naughty Nineties · Roaring Twenties · Dirty Thirties · Swinging Sixties

A group, set, or series of ten , particularly:

(Roman Catholicism) A series of prayers counted on a rosary, typically consisting of an Our Father, followed by ten Hail Marys, and concluding with a Glory Be and sometimes the Fatima Prayer.


see

en-verb

see (third-person singular simple present sees, present participle seeing, simple past saw or (dialectal) seen or (dialectal) seent or (dialectal) seed, past participle seen or (dialectal) seent or (dialectal) seed or (dialectal) saw)

sees (present singular third-person)
seeing (participle present)
saw (past)
seen (dialectal past)
seent (dialectal past)
seed (dialectal past)
seen (participle past)
seent (dialectal participle past)
seed (dialectal participle past)
saw (dialectal participle past)
see (infinitive)

From Middle English seen, from Old English sēon (“to see, look, behold, perceive, observe, discern, understand, know”), from Proto-West Germanic *sehwan, from Proto-Germanic *sehwaną (“to see”), from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“to see, notice”).
Cognates
Cognate with West Frisian sjen (“to see”), Dutch zien (“to see”), Low German sehn, German sehen (“to see”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian Bokmål se (“to see”), Norwegian Nynorsk sjå (“to see”), and more distantly with Latin sīgnum (“sign, token”), Albanian shih (“look at, see”) imperative of shoh (“to see”).

der

is that a gun in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me

send it up the flagpole and see who salutes

that which has been seen cannot be unseen

there are none so blind as those who will not see

there's none so blind as those who will not see

throw things at the wall and see what sticks

I've been seeing her for two months.

"You're... remarrying? I didn't even know you were seeing someone. And she's going to live here?"

2022 September 9, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Friday, Sep 9, 2022:

(social) To meet, to visit.
To date frequently.

I saw the old lady safely across the road.

You can see yourself out.

And in this Name we overcome, for You shall see us safely home.

2020, Rich Thompson, Jonny Robinson (lyrics and music), “Your Will Be Done”:

(transitive) To wait upon; attend, escort.


minister

Pijin: minista

→ Hausa: ministà

From Middle English ministre, from Old French ministre, from Latin minister (“an attendant, servant, assistant, a priest's assistant or other under official”), from minor (“less”) + -ter; see minor. Doublet of Minorite.

(Roman Catholicism) A person (either a layperson or an ordained clergy member) who is commissioned to perform some act on behalf of the Catholic Church.

thừa tác viên

person who is commissioned to perform some act on behalf of the Catholic Church


minister

pl-noun

minister m pers (female equivalent minister or ministerka, abbreviation min.)

minister (feminine)
ministerka (feminine)
min. (abbreviation)
minister (nominative singular)
ministrowie (nominative plural)
ministry (derogatory nominative plural)
ministra (genitive singular)
ministrów (genitive plural)
ministrowi (dative singular)
ministrom (dative plural)
ministra (accusative singular)
ministrów (accusative plural)
ministrem (instrumental singular)
ministrami (instrumental plural)
ministrze (locative singular)
ministrach (locative plural)
ministrze (singular vocative)
ministrowie (plural vocative)

Inherited from Old Polish minister. Sense 1 is a semantic loan from French ministre.

sl

(obsolete, Roman Catholicism) abbot, prior (high-ranking member of a monastery)

(obsolete, Roman Catholicism) minister (assistant in a Jesuit cloister)

(obsolete, Roman Catholicism) head of a Franciscan cloister

(Middle Polish, Roman Catholicism, derogatory, ironic) heretical priest; supporter of heresy

(Middle Polish, Roman Catholicism) Catholic preacher


tract

From Middle English tract, tracte, traht (“a treatise, exposition, commentary”), from Old English traht, tract (“a treatise, exposition, commentary, text, passage”); and also from Middle English tract, tracte (“an expanse of space or time”); both from Latin tractus (“a haul, drawing, a drawing out”), the perfect passive participle of trahō. Doublet of trait.

der

(Roman Catholicism) Part of the proper of the liturgical celebration of the Eucharist for many Christian denominations, used instead of the alleluia during Lenten or pre-Lenten seasons, in a Requiem Mass, and on a few other penitential occasions.


simple

Inherited from Middle English symple, simple, from Old French and French simple, from Latin simplex (“simple”, literally “onefold”) (as opposed to duplex (“double”, literally “twofold”)), from semel (“the same”) + plicō (“I fold”). See same and fold. Compare single, singular, simultaneous, etc.
Partially displaced native English onefold.

(Roman Catholicism) A feast which is not a double or a semidouble.


zucchetto

From zucca (“gourd, squash”) + -etto (diminutive suffix).

suffix

(Roman Catholicism) zucchetto, calotte (small skullcap worn by Roman Catholic clergy)


bieg

(religion) confession of sin to a priest


cardinal

en-noun

cardinal (countable and uncountable, plural cardinals)

From Middle French cardinal, from Latin cardinālis (“pertaining to a hinge, hence applied to that on which something turns or depends, important, principal, chief”), from cardin-, cardō (“hinge”) + -ālis, adjectival suffix.

der

His uncle, a Cardinal, engages a Spanish youth of Moorish descent called Diego, an expert singer and player on the virginal, to unlock the secrets of the heart,[…]and cure him by the spell of his music.

1932, Maurice Baring, chapter 16, in Friday's Business:

Roman Catholic Church
Roman Catholic Church

(Roman Catholicism) One of the officials appointed by the pope in the Roman Catholic Church, ranking only below the pope and the patriarchs, constituting the special college which elects the pope.


cardinal

cardinaliaid (plural)
cardinal
gardinal (soft)
nghardinal
chardinal

From English cardinal, from Middle French cardinal (“cardinal”), from Latin cardinālis (“pertaining to a hinge, hence applied to that on which something turns or depends, important, principal, chief”), from Latin cardō (“hinge”).

(Roman Catholicism) cardinal (Roman Catholic official)


asterisk

asterisks (plural)
asterisc (alternative)
asterix (alternative)

/ˈæstəˌɹɪsk/

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The noun is derived from Middle English asterisk [and other forms], from Late Latin asteriscus (“asterisk; small star”), from Ancient Greek ἀστερῐ́σκος (asterĭ́skos, “asterisk; small star”), from ᾰ̓στήρ (ăstḗr, “celestial body (star, planet, and other lights in the sky such as meteors)”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eHs- (“to burn; to glow”)) + -ῐ́σκος (-ĭ́skos, diminutive suffix).
Sense 1.1.2 (“something which is of little importance or which is marginal”) refers to the use of an asterisk to denote a footnote or marginal note in a text; in other words, information that is not important enough to be incorporated into the main text. Sense 1.1.3 (“blemish in an otherwise outstanding achievement”) refers to the use of an asterisk in a sporting record to indicate that the record is qualified in some manner (for example, that the sportsperson was found to have taken performance-enhancing drugs at the time).
The verb is derived from the noun.

tähti

small star; something resembling or shaped like a star

Then he [the deacon] reverently covereth the holy Cup with the veil. Likewise he placeth the Asterisk upon the holy Diskos, and the veil over it, and saith the following prayer with the Priest, silently, […]

1866, John Chrysostom, “Liturgy of the Catechumens”, in [anonymous], transl., Service of the Divine and Sacred Liturgy of Our Holy Father John Chrysostom. […], London: Joseph Masters, […], →OCLC, pages 69–70:

The asterisk is one of the sacred objects used in the Byzantine rite. It is placed on the paten to protect the Eucharistic bread from contact with the special veil that covers it. The name derives from the shape of the object and symbolically recalls the Biblical words: "And the star came and stood above where the child was" […] [Matthew 2:9].

1962, Marvin C. Ross, “Copper”, in Catalogue of the Byzantine and Early Mediaeval Antiquities in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection, volume 1 (Metalwork, Ceramics, Glass, Glyptics, Painting), Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Trustees for Harvard University, published 1970, →OCLC, paragraph 89, page 73:

The diskos, then, typifies the heavens, and for that reason, it is round, and holds the Master of heaven. What is called the ‘asterisk’ represents the stars, especially the one at the birth of Christ, just as the veils represent the firmament, the swaddling clothes, the shroud, and the burial cloths.

2013, Bryan D[ouglas] Spinks, quoting Symeon of Thessalonica (in translation), “The Eucharist and Anaphoras of the Byzantine Synthesis”, in Do This in Remembrance of Me: The Eucharist from the Early Church to the Present Day (SCM Studies in Worship and Liturgy), London: SCM Press, →ISBN, page 126:

(dated) A small star; also (by extension), something resembling or shaped like a star.

(Eastern Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism) An instrument with radiating arms resembling a star which is placed over the diskos (or paten) used during the Eucharist to prevent the veil covering the chalice and diskos from touching the host on the diskos.

tähti

instrument with radiating arms placed over the diskos used during the Eucharist


OF

(Roman Catholicism) Initialism of Ordinary Form.


vat

Inherited from Middle English vat, a dialectal variant of fat (“vat, vessel, cask”), from Old English fæt (“vat, vessel”), from Proto-West Germanic *fat, from Proto-Germanic *fatą (“vessel”), from Proto-Indo-European *pod- (“vessel”).
Cognate with Scots fat, vat, vautt (“vat, cask, tub”), West Frisian fet, Dutch vat (“barrel, cask, vessel, vat”), German Fass (“barrel, keg, drum, cask, vat”), Danish fad (“saucer, dish”), Swedish fat (“dish, barrel, cask, vat”), Icelandic fat (“dish, saucer”). See fat.

cog

(Roman Catholicism) A vessel for holding holy water.


alb

albs (plural)
albe (alternative)
aube (alternative)

From Middle English aube, awbe, albe, abbe, from Late Old English albe (but later reinforced by Old French aube, Medieval Latin alba), borrowed from Latin alba (as in tunica alba (“white tunic”), vestis alba (“white garment”)), feminine of albus (“white”).

der

‘The confidence of the very rich,’ thought Father Carter watching Binkie shaking out albs and cottas and calling rather loudly to the organist.

1978, Jane Gardam, God on the Rocks, Abacus, published 2014, page 131:

(Christianity, chiefly Anglicanism, Roman Catholicism) A long, white robe worn by priests and other ministers, underneath most of the other vestments.

alba

a long white robe worn by priests and other ministers


communion

en-noun

communion (countable and uncountable, plural communions)

From Middle English communion, from Old French comunion, from Ecclesiastical Latin commūniō (“communion”), from Latin commūnis.

der

(Roman Catholicism) A form of ecclesiastical unity between the Roman Church and another, so that the latter is considered part of the former.


consecrate

en-verb

consecrate (third-person singular simple present consecrates, present participle consecrating, simple past and past participle consecrated)

consecrates (present singular third-person)
consecrating (participle present)
consecrated (participle past)
consecrated (past)

Borrowed from Latin cōnsecrāre, cōnsecrātus.

(transitive, Roman Catholicism, specifically) To ordain as a bishop.


blessed

en-adj

blessed (comparative more blessed, superlative most blessed)

more blessed (comparative)
most blessed (superlative)
blessèd (alternative)
blesséd (alternative)
blest (alternative)

condemned

antonym(s) of “having divine aid, or protection, or other blessing”

(Roman Catholicism) A title indicating the beatification of a person, thus allowing public veneration of those who have lived in sanctity or died as martyrs.

блажен

In Catholicism, a title indicating the beatification of a person


requiem

requiem (absolutive indefinite)
requiema (absolutive indefinite singular)
requiemak (absolutive indefinite plural)
requiemek (ergative indefinite)
requiemak (ergative indefinite singular)
requiemek (ergative indefinite plural)
requiemi (dative indefinite)
requiemari (dative indefinite singular)
requiemei (dative indefinite plural)
requiemen (genitive indefinite)
requiemaren (genitive indefinite singular)
requiemen (genitive indefinite plural)
requiemekin (comitative indefinite)
requiemarekin (comitative indefinite singular)
requiemekin (comitative indefinite plural)
requiemengatik (causative indefinite)
requiemarengatik (causative indefinite singular)
requiemengatik (causative indefinite plural)
requiementzat (benefactive indefinite)
requiemarentzat (benefactive indefinite singular)
requiementzat (benefactive indefinite plural)
requiemez (indefinite instrumental)
requiemaz (indefinite instrumental singular)
requiemez (indefinite instrumental plural)
requiemetan (indefinite inessive)
requiemean (indefinite inessive singular)
requiemetan (indefinite inessive plural)
requiemetako (indefinite locative)
requiemeko (indefinite locative singular)
requiemetako (indefinite locative plural)
requiemetara (allative indefinite)
requiemera (allative indefinite singular)
requiemetara (allative indefinite plural)
requiemetaraino (indefinite terminative)
requiemeraino (indefinite singular terminative)
requiemetaraino (indefinite plural terminative)
requiemetarantz (directive indefinite)
requiemerantz (directive indefinite singular)
requiemetarantz (directive indefinite plural)
requiemetarako (destinative indefinite)
requiemerako (destinative indefinite singular)
requiemetarako (destinative indefinite plural)
requiemetatik (ablative indefinite)
requiemetik (ablative indefinite singular)
requiemetatik (ablative indefinite plural)
requiemik (indefinite partitive)
requiemtzat (indefinite prolative)


requiem

(Roman Catholicism) requiem (mass to honor and remember a dead person)


Americanism

en-noun

Americanism (countable and uncountable, plural Americanisms)

Moreover, the enthusiasm with which Hecker’s ideas had been received among Catholic liberals in France served to increase Leo XIII’s suspicion that Americanism was yet another attempt, not so very different from the Gallicanisms of the past, to assert the independence of a national church from Rome.

1999, Michael W. Cuneo, The Smoke of Satan: Conservative and Traditionalist Dissent in Contemporary American Catholicism, →ISBN, page 8:

(Roman Catholicism) A putative current of Catholicism in the United States identified and condemned as heretical by Rome in the late 19th century, chiefly characterized by support for secularism and American institutions above Catholic doctrine.


province

Tok Pisin: provins

From Middle English provynce, from Anglo-Norman province, Old French province, from Latin prōvincia, seemingly corresponding to prō- and vinciō. Replaced Old English boldġetæl.

(Roman Catholicism) An area under the jurisdiction of a provincial within a monastic order.


translator

translators (plural)
tr. (alternative)
trans. (alternative)
transl. (alternative)
translater (alternative)
translatour (alternative)
translatoure (alternative)
traunslatour (alternative)
translacttor (alternative)
translature (alternative)
translatar (alternative)
translatare (alternative)

[ˌtʰɹænzˈleɪtʰɚ]

[ˌtʰɹænzˈleɪɾɚ]

Directly from Latin trānslātor and French translator, and also from Middle English translatour, from Old French translatour, translateur, etc., from Latin trānslātor, from trānslātus (“carried across”) + -or (“-er: forming agent nouns”), from trānsferō (“carry across”), from trans (“across”) + ferō (“bear, carry”), q.v. Equivalent to translate + -or.

vertaler

someone or something that translates meaning from one language to another

... the translator of the life and miracles of the saints, like the translator of the relics, need not have been "literate"; nor did he have to be a clerk.

2019, Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Images of Sainthood in Medieval Europe, page 100:

(chiefly obsolete) Synonym of carrier, a person who transports something, now particularly (Roman Catholicism, rare) holy relics.


Dominican

From Dominica + -an & Dominic + -an. Compare Latin dominicānus.

A person from the Commonwealth of Dominica or of its descent.


papa

la-noun

pāpa m (genitive pāpae, feminine pāpissa); first declension

pāpa (canonical masculine)
pāpae (genitive)
pāpissa (feminine)
pāpa (nominative singular)
pāpae (nominative plural)
pāpae (genitive singular)
pāpārum (genitive plural)
pāpae (dative singular)
pāpīs (dative plural)
pāpam (accusative singular)
pāpās (accusative plural)
pāpā (ablative singular)
pāpīs (ablative plural)
pāpa (singular vocative)
pāpae (plural vocative)

→ Albanian: papë

→ Proto-Brythonic: *pab

Middle Welsh: pap

Welsh: pab

→ Old Dutch: *papo

Middle Dutch: pape

Dutch: paap

→ Old English: pāpa (see there for further descendants)

→ Old French: pape (see there for further descendants)

→ Hungarian: pápa

→ Old Irish: pápa

Irish: pápa

Scottish Gaelic: pàpa

→ Italian: papa
→ Turkish: papa

→ Old Galician-Portuguese: papa

Galician: papa

Portuguese: papa
→ Swahili: papa

→ Romanian: papă

→ Spanish: papa
→ Tagalog: Papa

From early Byzantine Greek πάπας (pápas, title for priests & bishops, especially by 3rd c. the bishop of Alexandria), from πάππας (páppas, “papa, daddy”).

bor

The traditional exclamation in Rome after a papal election:

"Habemus papam!" ― "We have a [new] pope!"

(Ecclesiastical Latin) a pope (the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome)


papa

papa (nominative singular)
papy (nominative plural)
papy (genitive singular)
pap (genitive plural)
papie (dative singular)
papom (dative plural)
papę (accusative singular)
papy (accusative plural)
papą (instrumental singular)
papami (instrumental plural)
papie (locative singular)
papach (locative plural)
papo (singular vocative)
papy (plural vocative)


pope

Jamaican Creole: puop

Tok Pisin: pop

→ Hindi: पोप (pop)

→ Urdu: پوپ (pop)

From Middle English pope, popa, from Old English pāpa, from Vulgar Latin papa (title for priests and bishops, esp. and by 8th c. only the bishop of Rome), from early Byzantine Greek παπᾶς (papâs, title for priests and bishops, especially by 3rd c. the bishop of Alexandria), from late Ancient Greek πάπας (pápas, title for priests and bishops, in the sense of spiritual father), from πάππας (páppas, “papa, daddy”).

der

do not sit in Rome and strive with the Pope

We often say, that every man has a pope in his belly.

1689, G. Bulkeley, “People's Right to Election”, in Andros Tracts, published 1869, II. 106:

Burne-Jones... accepted him [Dante Gabriel Rossetti] as the infallible Pope of Art.

Both [discoveries] were rejected offhand by the popes of the field.

Above all, the SED reformers cite the progress inherent in the emancipation of Westem Communist parties from the "red popes in the Kremlin."

1978, Atlas World Press Review, volume 25, page 19:

(Roman Catholicism and generally) An honorary title of the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome as father and head of his church, a sovereign of the Vatican city state.

(by extension, now often ironic) Any similarly absolute and 'infallible' authority.

In þat yle dwelleth the Pope of hire lawe, þat þei clepen lobassy.

c. 1400, John Mandeville, Travels (Titus C.xvi, 1919), 205

Mufti, the Mahometan pope or chief of the religion.

1787, Vincent Mignot, translated by A. Hawkins, The history of the Turkish, or Ottoman Empire, section IV:

Although Islam has no formal hierarchy of clergy, Tantawy [Egypt's grand imam] often is called the Muslim pope.

(by extension) Any similar head of a religion.

Eche day there etyn in his court xii erchebeshopis and xx bishopis, and the patriak of Seynt Thomays is as here pope.

ante''' 1500, John Mandeville, Travels (Rawl., 1953), 103

Ramone, known as ‘the Pope of Pop’ is one of the top record producer-engineers in the world.

(uncommon) A theocrat, a priest-king, including (at first especially) over the imaginary land of Prester John or (now) in figurative and alliterative uses.

This is the only piece in which the author has given a hint of his religion, by ridiculing the ceremony of burning the pope, and by mentioning with some indignation the inscription […]

1830, Alexander Pope, The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, page xxi:

As York's succession was challenged by burning the pope, the Duke of Monmouth was again heralded in the city as a Protestant alternative.

2005, Gary S. De Krey, London and the Restoration, 1659–1683, →ISBN, page 182:

(UK) An effigy of the pope traditionally burnt in Britain on Guy Fawkes' Day and (occasionally) at other times.

(US, obsolete) Pope Day, the present Guy Fawkes Day.

Þa wæs in þa tid Uitalius papa þæs apostolican seðles aldorbiscop.

ante''' 950, translating Bede's Ecclesiastical History (Tanner), iv. i. 252

The Pope is not going to issue a bull condemning the Spanish Church's support of France and destroy the Church's right to exist in Spain.

1959 August 19, Flannery O'Connor, letter in Habit of Being (1980), 347

2007 May 5, Ted Koppel (guest), Wait, Wait... Don’t tell me!, National Public Radio
I really did want to interview the pope. Any pope. I'm not particular.


pater

nl-noun

pater m (plural paters, diminutive patertje n)

paters (plural)
patertje (diminutive neuter)

→ Saramaccan: páiti

From Middle Dutch pater, from Latin pater, from Proto-Italic *patēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr. Doublet of vader and va.

(Roman Catholicism) father (as a religious title)


pattern

From earlier patten, paterne, from Middle English patron (“patron; example”), from Old French patron, from Medieval Latin patrōnus (“patron”). Doublet of padrone, patron, Patronus, and patroon.

skemo

intelligible arrangement which has a mathematical, geometric, statistical etc. relationship

(Ireland, Roman Catholicism) The devotions that take place within a parish on the feast day of the patron saint of that parish.

pátrún

devotions that take place on the feast day of a patron saint


placebo

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

From Middle English placebo, from Latin placēbō (“I will please”), the first-person singular future active indicative of placeō (“I please”).

There the placebo, the office for the dead, was sung, and a vigil kept throughout the night.

2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 349:

(Roman Catholicism) The vespers sung in the office for the dead.


canon

en-noun

canon (countable and uncountable, plural canons)

From Middle English canoun, from Old French canon and Old English canon, both from Latin canōn, from Ancient Greek κανών (kanṓn, “measuring rod, standard”), akin to κάννα (kánna, “reed”), from Semitic (compare Hebrew קָנֶה (qane, “reed”) and Arabic قَنَاة (qanāh, “reed”)). Doublet of qanun. See also cane, cannon, canyon, canal.

der

A eucharistic prayer, particularly the Roman Canon.


canon

nl-noun

canon m (plural canons, diminutive canonnetje n)

canons (plural)
canonnetje (diminutive neuter)

From Ancient Greek κανών (kanṓn, “measuring rod, standard”), akin to κάννα (kánna, “reed”), perhaps from Semitic (compare Hebrew קנה (qaneh, “reed”)).

(Roman Catholicism) canon (part of a mass following the Sanctus up to the end of the Pater Noster, consisting mostly of prayers)


sacrifice

en-noun

sacrifice (countable and uncountable, plural sacrifices)

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *seh₂k-
Proto-Italic *sakros
Latin sacer
Latin sacrum
Proto-Italic *fakjō
Latin facio
Proto-Indo-European *-yōs
Proto-Italic *-jōs
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -ium
Latin sacrificiumlbor.
Old French sacrifisebor.
Middle English sacrifice
English sacrifice
From Middle English sacrifice (“act of offering a life or object to a deity; the life or object so offered; (Christianity) act of consecrating the elements in the mass”), from Anglo-Norman sacrefiz, and Old French sacrifice, sacrifise (modern French sacrifice), from Latin sacrificium (“something offered to a deity, sacrifice”), from sacrum (“sacrifice, sacrificial rite”) + faciō (“to do, to make”) + -ium (suffix forming abstract nouns). The noun sacrum is the nominalized neuter of the adjective sacer (“devoted to a deity for sacrifice; holy, sacred”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂k- (“ceremony, ritual; to make sacred”), and the verb faciō is ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to do; to place, put”). Related Latin formations include sacrificus (“of or pertaining to sacrifice, sacrificial”) and sacrificō (“to make a sacrifice”).
Cognates
* Italian sagrifizio
* Occitan sacrifici
* Portuguese sacrificio
* Spanish sacrificio

der

The pretensions of the holy see, the authority of tradition, purgatory, transubstantiation, the sacrifice of the mass, […] were copiously discussed.

1849, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter VI, in The History of England from the Accession of James II, volume II, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC, pages 109–110:

(by extension) The rite of Holy Communion or the Mass, regarded as (Protestantism) an offering of thanksgiving to God for Christ's crucifixion, or (Roman Catholicism) a perpetual re-enactment of Christ's sacrificial offering.


tabernacle

From Middle English tabernacle (14th century), from Old French tabernacle, from Latin tabernāculum (“tent, booth, shed”), the diminutive of taberna (“hut, shed”).

The tabernacle is to be situated "in churches in a most worthy place with the greatest honor." The dignity, placing, and security of the Eucharistic tabernacle should foster adoration before the Lord really present in the Blessed Sacrament of the altar.

1997, Catechism of the Catholic Church, Part II, Section 1183

(Roman Catholicism) A small ornamented cupboard or box used for the reserved sacrament of the Eucharist, normally located in an especially prominent place in a church.

дарохранителница

small ornamented cupboard or box used for the sacrament of the Eucharist


luna

Borrowed from Latin lūna (“moon; month; crescent”).

“Gee,” whispered Oliver. He sat there staring. “A luna! I never thought I’d see a real luna!”

1944, Elizabeth Enright, Then There Were Five, Farrar & Rinehart, page 80:

On the previous evening we had discovered with delight a luna with the fabulous moons, one on each pale green wing.

1969, Sterling North, “An Introduction to Butterflies and Moths”, in Boys’ Life, May 1969 issue, Boy Scouts of America, page 64

Spray BT on your young oak to protect against gypsy moths, and you wipe out future lunas, cecropias, and everything else on the leaves, along with the pests.

2010, Sally Roth (contributor), in Judy Pray (compiler), Garden Wisdom & Know-How: Everything You Need to Know to Plant, Grow, and Harvest, Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, Inc., page 348

(entomology) A luna moth: a member of species Actias luna.


santo

pt-noun

santo m (plural santos, feminine santa, feminine plural santas)

santos (plural)
santa (feminine)
santas (feminine plural)
sancto (alternative)

→ Kadiwéu: xaanto

→ Nheengatu: santu

→ Tetum: santu

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese santo, from Latin sānctus, perfect passive participle of sanciō (“consecrate, appoint as sacred”), from Proto-Indo-European *sān- (“healthy, happy”).

der

quando a esmola é demais, o santo desconfia

(Roman Catholicism) someone who has been formally canonised by the Catholic Church


santo

Inherited from Old Spanish santo, sancto, from Latin sānctus.


Espíritu Santo

From espíritu (“spirit”) + santo (“holy”).

En el nombre del Padre, y del Hijo, y del Espíritu Santo.

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.

(Christianity, theology) the Holy Spirit, Holy Ghost


Holy Ghost

From Middle English Holi Gost, from Old English Hāliġ Gāst, a calque of Latin Spīritus Sānctus, which in turn is a calque of Ancient Greek Πνεῦμα τὸ Ἅγιον (Pneûma tò Hágion), from πνεῦμα (pneûma, “breath, vital force, soul”) + ἅγιος (hágios, “holy”)), a calque of Hebrew רוח הקודש (ruaḥ ha-qodesh), from רוח (ruaḥ, “wind, breath, spirit”) + קודש (qodesh, “holiness”), from earlier רוח יהוה (ruaḥ yahveh, “wind of Yahweh”).

calque

Πνεῦμα τὸ Ἅγιον

Now the birth of Iesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Ioseph (before they came together) shee was found with childe of the holy Ghost.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 1:18:

O God the Holy Ghost, Perfecter of the Elect, Have Mercy on us.

1728, “The Litany of the Saints and Angels”, in A Manual of Prayers and Other Christian Devotions, page 50:

I baptise thee in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.

1899, “Lay Baptism”, in The Catholic's Pocket Prayer-Book, page 4:

There are deadly sins from which God's people may recover. A man may even communicate unworthily, and yet, so be it he sin not against the Holy Ghost, he may find forgiveness.

1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:

(Christianity) The person (hypostasis) of the Trinity or Godhead corresponding to divine essence, which becomes present in and among the faithful (particularly inspired prophets) and is considered to proceed either (Eastern Orthodoxy) from God the Father alone or (Roman Catholicism) from Him together with God the Son.


Holy Spirit

From Late Middle English Holy Speryte, holy spiriet, holy spyryt, an alteration of earlier Middle English Holygost, Haliȝ Gast, holy goost (see Holy Ghost), equivalent to holy + Spirit.

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit is now the Spirit of Christ as it was once known by the title of the Spirit of God.

1731, “Dialogue on the Holy Spirit”, in Alexander Campbell, editor, The Millennial Harbinger, volume 2, page 553:

(Christianity) The person (hypostasis) of the Trinity or Godhead corresponding to divine essence present in the faithful (particularly inspired prophets) and considered to proceed either from (Eastern Orthodoxy) God the Father alone or (Roman Catholicism) from Him together with God the Son.


administrator

nl-noun

administrator m (plural administratoren)

(Roman Catholicism) ecclesiastical administrator, a steward of a bishop


nun

From Middle English nonne, nunne, from Old English nunne (“nun”), from Late Latin nonna (“nun, tutor”), originally (along with masculine form nonnus (“man”)) a term of address for elderly persons, perhaps from children's speech, reminiscent of nana, like papa etc. Doublet of nonna.

onomatopoeic

children's speech

Thus, when the nuns came to the mission and we saw that instead of murmuring soft blessings and gliding seraphically over the grass in diaphanous habits, they wore smart blouses and skirts and walked, laughed and talked in low twanging tones very much like our own American missionaries did, we were very disappointed.

1988, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions, Faber & Faber Limited (2021), page 258:

A member of a Christian religious community of women who live by certain vows and usually wear a habit, (Roman Catholicism, specifically) those living together in a cloister.

non

member of a non-Christian religious community of women


chapter

chapters (plural)
chapiter (alternative)
chapitre (alternative)
chapiture (alternative)
chaptre (alternative)
chapyter (alternative)
chapytre (alternative)
chaptire (alternative)

→ Cebuano: tsapter

From Middle English chapitre, from Old French chapitre, from Latin capitulum (“a chapter of a book, in Medieval Latin also a synod or council”), diminutive of caput (“a head”); see capital, capitulum, and chapiter, which are doublets of chapter.

der

(Roman Catholicism) A prescribed reading at one of the canonical hours.


patron

(uncommon, Roman Catholicism) patron saint


conclave

Borrowed from French conclave, from Latin conclāve (“room that may be locked up”), from con- (combining form of cum (“with”)) + clāvis (“key”).

[W]e find it once said of an eminent Cardinal, by reaſon of his great and apparent Likelihood to ſtep into St. Peter’s Chair, that in tvvo Conclaves he vvent in Pope, and came out again Cardinal.

1685 March 4 (date delivered; Gregorian calendar); first published 1692, Robert South, “A Sermon Preached at Westminster-Abbey, February 22, 1684–5”, in Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions. […], volume I, London: […] J[ohn] H[eptinstall] for Thomas Bennet, […], →OCLC, page 327:

His exit came as at least a dozen other cardinals tarnished with accusations that they had failed to remove priests accused of sexually abusing minors were among those gathering in Rome to prepare for the conclave to select a successor to Pope Benedict XVI.

2013 February 27, Laurie Goodstein, “Now Gathering in Rome, a Conclave of Fallible Cardinals”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(Roman Catholicism) A closed meeting in which the elector cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church choose a new pope.

Two hours before nightfall, the whole body met again in a chapel within the conclave […]

1884, John Sherren Brewer, edited by James Gairdner, The Reign of Henry VIII from His Accession to the Death of Wolsey […] , volume 1, page 442:

(Roman Catholicism) The set of apartments in which the elector cardinals are secluded while a conclave takes place.

konklavo

set of apartments within which the cardinals are secluded

(Roman Catholicism) The group of cardinals involved in a conclave.


Agnus Dei

en-noun

Agnus Dei (plural Agnus Deis or Agnus Dei)

Borrowed from Latin Agnus Deī (“Lamb of God”).

(Roman Catholicism, heraldry) A small model, picture, or heraldic representation of a lamb with a cross and sometimes a flag (usually white with a red cross).

Matilda continued her incantations; at intervals she took various items from the basket, the nature and name of most of which were unknown to the friar: but among the few which he distinguished, he particularly observed three human fingers, and an agnus dei, which she broke in pieces.

1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society, published 1985, page 194:

The most common of these amulets was the agnus dei, a small wax cake, originally made out of paschal candles and blessed by the Pope, bearing the image of the lamb and flag.

1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 28:

(Roman Catholicism) A bar of wax imprinted with a similar shape and blessed by the Pope.


alba

alba (nominative singular)
alby (nominative plural)
alby (genitive singular)
alb (genitive plural)
albie (dative singular)
albom (dative plural)
albę (accusative singular)
alby (accusative plural)
albą (instrumental singular)
albami (instrumental plural)
albie (locative singular)
albach (locative plural)
albo (singular vocative)
alby (plural vocative)

Learned borrowing from Latin alba. First attested in 1528.

ref

Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “alba”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]

Coordinate term: komża

białe alby

(Anglicanism, Lutheranism, Roman Catholicism) alb (long white robe worn by ministers at religious ceremonies)


Trinitarian

From French trinitaire (from Medieval Latin trinitarius, from Latin trinitas + -arius) + -ian.

trinitari

of or pertaining to the doctrine of the Trinity

It was no less than whether the psychic movement in Britain was destined to take a Unitarian or a Trinitarian course.

1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:


papal

ca-adj

papal m or f (masculine and feminine plural papals)


papal

es-adj

papal m or f (masculine and feminine plural papales)

Borrowed from Medieval Latin papālis, from Ecclesiastical Latin papa.


abt

abti (genitive)
abti (partitive)
abt (nominative singular)
abtid (nominative plural)
abt (accusative nominative singular)
abtid (accusative nominative plural)
abti (accusative genitive singular)
abtid (accusative genitive plural)
abti (genitive singular)
abtide (genitive plural)
abti (partitive singular)
abte (partitive plural)
abtisid (partitive plural)
abti (illative singular)
abtisse (illative singular)
abtidesse (illative plural)
abtesse (illative plural)
abtis (inessive singular)
abtides (inessive plural)
abtes (inessive plural)
abtist (elative singular)
abtidest (elative plural)
abtest (elative plural)
abtile (allative singular)
abtidele (allative plural)
abtele (allative plural)
abtil (adessive singular)
abtidel (adessive plural)
abtel (adessive plural)
abtilt (ablative singular)
abtidelt (ablative plural)
abtelt (ablative plural)
abtiks (singular translative)
abtideks (plural translative)
abteks (plural translative)
abtini (singular terminative)
abtideni (plural terminative)
abtina (essive singular)
abtidena (essive plural)
abtita (abessive singular)
abtideta (abessive plural)
abtiga (comitative singular)
abtidega (comitative plural)


penitent

pl-noun

penitent m pers (female equivalent penitentka)

penitentka (feminine)
penitent (nominative singular)
penitenci (nominative plural)
penitenty (derogatory nominative plural)
penitenta (genitive singular)
penitentów (genitive plural)
penitentowi (dative singular)
penitentom (dative plural)
penitenta (accusative singular)
penitentów (accusative plural)
penitentem (instrumental singular)
penitentami (instrumental plural)
penitencie (locative singular)
penitentach (locative plural)
penitencie (singular vocative)
penitenci (plural vocative)

Internationalism; compare English penitent, French pénitent, German Pönitent, ultimately from Latin poenitēns.

(Roman Catholicism) penitent (who repents of sin; one sorrowful on account of their transgressions)


Ave Maria

Ave Marias (plural)
Ave Mary (alternative)

/ˈɑːveɪ̯ məˈɹiːə/

From Middle English Ave Maria, Ave Marie, Ave Mary(e), from Latin Avē Marīa.

Hail Mary (Catholic prayer, part of the rosary)


apostate

From Late Latin apostata, from Ancient Greek ἀποστάτης (apostátēs, “rebel”), from ἀφίστημι (aphístēmi, “to withdraw, revolt”), from ἀπό (apó, “from”) + ἵστημι (hístēmi, “to stand”).

der

(Roman Catholicism) One who, after having received sacred orders, renounces his clerical profession.


SSPX

Society of Saint Pius X
w:Society of Saint Pius X

(Roman Catholicism) Initialism of Society of Saint Pius X, a group of traditionalist Roman Catholics.


diocese

dioceses (plural)
diœcese (alternative)
diocesse (alternative)

From Middle English diocise, from Old French diocese, from Late Latin diocēsis, from Latin dioecēsis (“district under a governor”), from Ancient Greek διοίκησις (dioíkēsis, “internal administration”).

(historical) An administrative division of the later Roman Empire, established by the Herodian tetrarchy.

diokeesi

administrative division of the Roman Empire


diocese

From Ancient Greek δῐοίκησῐς (dĭoíkēsĭs), through Latin dioecēsis.

(religion) diocese (administrative district in some ancient Roman provinces)


pastoral

(Roman Catholicism) a letter written by a bishop or the pope explaining a doctrine


sacerdos

la-noun

sacerdōs m or f (genitive sacerdōtis); third declension

sacerdōs (canonical feminine masculine)
sacerdōtis (genitive)
sacerdōs (nominative singular)
sacerdōtēs (nominative plural)
sacerdōtis (genitive singular)
sacerdōtum (genitive plural)
sacerdōtī (dative singular)
sacerdōtibus (dative plural)
sacerdōtem (accusative singular)
sacerdōtēs (accusative plural)
sacerdōte (ablative singular)
sacerdōtibus (ablative plural)
sacerdōs (singular vocative)
sacerdōtēs (plural vocative)

Asturian: sacerdote

Catalan: sacerdot

→ Chinese: 司鐸 /司铎 (sīduó) (phono-semantic loan)

Galician: sacerdote

Italian: sacerdote

→ Sardinian: satzerdote, sacerdote

Portuguese: sacerdote

Old English: sacerd

Romanian: sacerdot

Sicilian: sacirduti

Spanish: sacerdote

desctree

→ Old Irish: sacart
Irish: sagart
Manx: saggyrt
Scottish Gaelic: sagart
⇒ Middle Irish: sacartacht

From Proto-Italic *sakrodōts. Equivalent to sacer (“sacred, holy”) plus an affix derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *dʰeh₁- (“to do”).


protocol

en-noun

protocol (countable and uncountable, plural protocols)

/ˈpɹəʊtəˌkɒl/

Borrowed from Middle French protocolle, protocole (“document, record”), from Late Latin protocollum (“the first sheet of a volume (on which contents and errata were written)”), from Byzantine Greek πρωτόκολλον (prōtókollon, “first sheet glued onto a manuscript”), from πρῶτος (prôtos, “first”) + κόλλα (kólla, “glue”). Doublet of collage, collagen, and colloid.

doublet

This protocol of the Preface has been constant, with minor modification, from the Apostolic Tradition, of Hippolytus in 215 A.D., the earliest extant text of the Eucharistic Prayer, to the present 2002 Missale Romanum.

2010, Virgilio T.J. Suerte Felipe, The Lord’s Supper, Eucharist, Mass… What’s in a Name? […], →ISBN, pages 45–46:

The proper Preface for Eucharistic Prayer II also appears as Common Preface VI. In it, the protocol and body of the Preface structure are meshed.

2011, Michael S. Driscoll, J. Michael Joncas, The Order of Mass: A Roman Missal Study Edition and Workbook, →ISBN, page 213:

The celebrant then takes up this response in the first part of the preface itself (also known by the technical term ‘protocol’): […]

[2022, Uwe Michael Lang, The Roman Mass: From Early Christian Origins to Tridentine Reform, →ISBN, page 140:

(Roman Catholicism) The introduction of a liturgical preface, immediately following the Sursum corda dialogue.


tierce

From Old French tierce, from Latin tertia.

(religion, Roman Catholicism) Synonym of terce: the third canonical hour or its service.


misa

From Old Galician-Portuguese missa, borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin missa, from Latin missum.


misa

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mey-?
Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂-der.
Proto-Italic *meitō
Latin mittō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Italic *-tjō
Latin -tiō
Latin missiō
Ecclesiastical Latin missalbor.
Old Galician-Portuguese missa
Brazilian Portuguese missabor.
Nheengatu misa
Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese missa.

etymon

muyepé akayú uán intí xasenú misa.

1872, Charles Frederick Hartt, “Notas sobre a lingua geral, ou tupí moderno do Amazonas”, in Anais da Biblioteca Nacional do Rio de Janeiro, volume LI, Rio de Janeiro: M. E. S. Serviço Gráfico, partial translation of Notes on the Lingoa geral or modern Tupí of the Amazonas, published 1938, Frases (section II), page 345, line 356:

It's been a year since I don't attend Mass.


prose

en-noun

prose (usually uncountable, plural proses)

From Middle English prose, from Old French prose, from Latin prōsa (“straightforward”) from the term prōsa ōrātiō (“a straightforward speech – i.e. without the ornaments of verse”).
further etymology and related terms
The term prōsa (“straightforward”), a colloquial form of prorsa (“straight forwards”), the feminine form prorsus (“straight forwards”), from Old Latin prōvorsus (“moving straight ahead”), from pro- (“forward”) + vorsus (“turned”), form of vertō (“I turn”). Compare verse.

der

Proses are parts of the Office of the Mass which are sung just before the Gospel, upon great Festivals. The French also call those Rhythmical Hymns Proses, which are sung in their Offices in the Church of Rome, in which Rhime only, and not Quantity of Syllables, is observed.

(Roman Catholicism) A hymn with no regular meter, sometimes introduced into the Mass.


NO

(Roman Catholicism) Initialism of Novus Ordo.


pastor

pasta (Australia, New Zealand, Northern England)

From Middle English pastour, from Old French pastor (Modern French pasteur), from Latin pāstor.

Coordinate term: parochial vicar

(Roman Catholicism, US) The main priest serving a parish.


pastor

pastor-pastor (plural)
pastur (alternative)

From Dutch pastoor, from Middle Dutch pastōor, from Latin pāstor, from pāscō (“to feed, maintain, pasture, graze”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to protect”).

(Christianity, Roman Catholicism) parish priest


Biblia

From Latin biblia, from Ancient Greek βιβλία (biblía), plural of βιβλίον (biblíon, “books”).

the Bible (the Christian holy book; the Old and New Testaments)


lavabo

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

From the Christian ritual, which was traditionally accompanied in Catholicism by a recitation of Psalm 25:6 (Psalm 26:6, in the Hebrew and in most modern translations) which in Latin begins with the word lavābō (“I will wash”). The sense of "room with a toilet" developed under the influence of lavatory and lav.

(Christianity) A ritual involving the washing of one's hands at a church's offertory before handling the Eucharist.


nave

Inherited from Old Spanish naf, naue, from Latin nāvem, nāvis, from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us. Cognate with English nave, navigate, and navy.

craft, spaceship, spacecraft (ellipsis of nave espacial), starship (ellipsis of nave estelar)


oblate

From French oblat and its source, post-classical Latin oblātus (“person dedicated to religious life”), a nominal use of the past participle of offerō (“I offer”).

(Roman Catholicism) A person dedicated to a life of religion or monasticism, especially a member of an order without religious vows or a lay member of a religious community.


romano

pt-adj

romano (feminine romana, masculine plural romanos, feminine plural romanas)

romana (feminine)
romanos (masculine plural)
romanas (feminine plural)

Learned borrowing from Latin rōmānus (“Roman”), from Rōma (“Rome”), corresponding to Roma + -ano. Doublet of romão and romeno.

lbor

(religion, sometimes derogatory) Roman (relating to the Roman Catholic Church)


synod

synod (nominative singular)
synody (nominative plural)
synodu (genitive singular)
synodów (genitive plural)
synodowi (dative singular)
synodom (dative plural)
synod (accusative singular)
synody (accusative plural)
synodem (instrumental singular)
synodami (instrumental plural)
synodzie (locative singular)
synodach (locative plural)
synodzie (singular vocative)
synody (plural vocative)

Borrowed from French synode, from Ecclesiastical Latin synodus, from Ancient Greek σύνοδος (súnodos).

(Eastern Orthodoxy, Protestantism, Roman Catholicism) synod (ecclesiastic council or meeting)


dispensation

en-noun

dispensation (countable and uncountable, plural dispensations)

From Old French despensacion, from Latin dispensātiō.

تَحِلَّة

[H]e had a dispensation for conforming in outward observances to the Protestant faith.

1822, [Walter Scott], chapter I, in Peveril of the Peak. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, pages 5–6:

Why, there has gone already to Rome a messenger to crave a second dispensation from his Popeship, and the King himself hath signed the request, praying that you and I should graciously be permitted to wed!

1905, Samuel Rutherford Crockett, May Margaret: called "the fair maid of Galloway," - Page 184:

The relaxation of a law in a particular case; permission to do something forbidden, or to omit doing something enjoined; exemption.

(Catholicism) In the Roman Catholic Church, an exemption from some ecclesiastical law, or from an obligation to God which a person has incurred of his own free will (oaths, vows, etc.).


elevation

elevation (countable and uncountable, plural elevations)

/ˌɛlɪˈveɪʃən/

From Old French elevation, from Latin elevatio, equal to elevate + -ion.

(Christianity, chiefly Roman Catholicism) The raising of the host—representing Christ’s body—in a mass or Holy Communion service.


excommunication

excommunication (countable and uncountable, plural excommunications)

From the Late Latin excommūnicātiō. Displaced native Old English āmǣnsumung.

The act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting; especially an ecclesiastical censure whereby the person against whom it is pronounced is, for the time, cast out of the communication of the church; exclusion from fellowship in things spiritual.

отлъ́чване

от цъ́рквата


Marian

A variant of Marion, a medieval derivation of Mary, often also interpreted as a contraction of Mary and Ann, or as a variant of Mariana.

There's no more faith in thee than in a steward prune, nor no more truth in thee than in a drawn fox; and for womanhood, Maid Marian may be the deputy's wife of the ward to thee.


immaculate

en-adj

immaculate (comparative more immaculate, superlative most immaculate)

more immaculate (comparative)
most immaculate (superlative)

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Museo del Prado

From Late Middle English immaculat, immaculate (“blameless; flawless, spotless; specifically of the Virgin Mary: pure, undefiled”), borrowed from Latin immaculātus (“unstained”), from im- (negative prefix) + maculātus (“stained, spotted; defiled, polluted; (figurative) dishonoured”), the perfect passive participle of maculō (“to spot, stain; to defile, pollute; (figurative) to dishonour”), from macula (“a blemish, spot, stain; (figurative) blot on one’s character, fault”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *smh₂-tló-m (“wiping (?)”), from *smeh₁- (“to rub; to smear”). The word displaced Middle English unwemmed (“pure, untainted”). See also -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Cognates
* Catalan immaculat
* Italian immacolato, immaculato (obsolete)
* Middle French immaculé (modern French immaculé)
* Portuguese imaculado
* Spanish inmaculado

ref

From the collection of the Museo del Prado in Madrid, Spain.

perfek

containing no mistakes — see also flawless

(Roman Catholicism) Of the Virgin Mary or her womb: pure, undefiled.

onbevlekte

of the Virgin Mary or her womb: pure, undefiled — see also undefiled


papist

en-adj

papist (comparative more papist, superlative most papist)

more papist (comparative)
most papist (superlative)
Papist (alternative)

From Middle French papiste, from Latin pāpa (“pope”).

However, Menem promptly surprised many observers (and most of his voters) by forming an alliance with Alsogaray, and becoming more papist than the Pope in economic orthodoxy.

2011, Jill Hedges, Argentina: A Modern History:

(religious slur, Christianity) Roman Catholic.


vicar

→ Welsh: ficer

From Middle English vicar, viker, vikyr, vicaire, vicare, a borrowing from Anglo-Norman vikare, vicare, vikaire, vikere and Old French vicaire (“deputy, second in command”), from Latin vicārius (“vicarious, substitute”).

der

Near-synonyms: proxy, representative, agent

A person acting on behalf of, or representing, another person.


fara

szl-noun

fara f (diminutive farka, related adjective farski or farny)

farka (diminutive)
farski (adjective)
farny (adjective)
fara (nominative singular)
fary (nominative plural)
fary (genitive singular)
farōw (genitive plural)
farze (dative singular)
farōm (dative plural)
farã (accusative singular)
fary (accusative plural)
farōm (instrumental singular)
farami (instrumental plural)
farōma (instrumental plural)
farze (locative singular)
farach (locative plural)
faro (singular vocative)
fary (plural vocative)

Borrowed from German Pfarre. Compare Polish fara.

(Christianity) rectory, presbytery (residence of Roman Catholic priest(s) associated with a parish church)


mis

From Dutch mis, from Middle Dutch misse, from Latin missa.


Simon

[ʂɪj˧˧ mɔŋ˧˧]

[sɪj˧˧ mɔŋ˧˧]

[ʂɪj˧˧ mɔŋ˧˧]

[sɪj˧˧ mɔŋ˧˧]

From Latin Simon. Cognate with English Simon.


canonical

en-adj

canonical (comparative more canonical, superlative most canonical)

more canonical (comparative)
most canonical (superlative)


canonic

canonic (comparative more canonic, superlative most canonic)

more canonic (comparative)
most canonic (superlative)


tertiary

English numerals#Ordinal numbers
Lay Carmelites
Peterhouse, Cambridge
Saint-Étienne Cathedral
University of Cambridge

/ˈtɜː.ʃə.ɹiː/

/ˈtɜː.ʃə.ɹiː/

PIE word
 *tréyes
Borrowed from the Latin tertiārius (“of the third part or rank”), from tertius (“third”) (from Proto-Indo-European *tr̥tyós, whence English third) + -ārius (whence the English suffix -ary); compare the French tertiaire.

bor

Tertiaries living in places where there is no Church of the Order or of the Third Order can gain all the indulgences they would gain visiting such a church, by visiting their respective parish church, or, where there is no parochial church, by visiting another church or public oratory, and fulfilling the other conditions.

1952, Dominican Tertiaries’ Manual: For the Daily Use of Private and Fraternity Tertiaries of the Third Order of St. Dominic, 1st rev. edition, New York, N.Y.: Third Order of St. Dominic, published 1954, →OCLC, page 362:

Immediately after her arrival in Ferrara, while she was still striving to secure the foundation of her exemplary reformed community of Dominican tertiaries, [Lucia] Brocadelli also renewed her attempts to enhance [Girolamo] Savonarola's saintly reputation.

2008, Tamar Herzig, “The Power of Visions: Lucia Brocadelli and Osanna Andreasi”, in Savonarola’s Women: Visions and Reform in Renaissance Italy, Chicago, Ill.; London: University of Chicago Press; large print edition, Richmond, B.C.: ReadHowYouWant.com Ltd., 2010, page 146

(Roman Catholicism) A member of a Roman Catholic third order; a layperson who participates in activities similar to those engaged in by men and women who take religious vows (respectively the first and second orders), and who may wear some elements of an order's habit such as a scapular.

terziario

Roman Catholicism: member of a third order


jug

Probably from Latin jugum (“yoke, tether”). A folk etymology claims that it is an acronym for "justice under God" or "judgment under God". https://www.ignatius.edu/news/september-2017/jug-em-with-a-jugumhttps://catholicphilly.com/2021/10/news/local-news/local-priest-moves-closer-to-sainthood/

“Take a week’s Jug,” he said, “and keep your nose clean.”

1970, Kenneth H. Brown, The Narrows, New York City: The Deal Press, via Google Books:

I had another role that earned me almost no appreciation at all: I served as the master after classes in the JUG room, where students appeared when they received detention.

2017 June 12, Stephen, N., S.J. Katsouros, Come To Believe: How the Jesuits are Reinventing Education (Again), Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, via Google Books, →ISBN, page 27:

In days gone by jugs included the memorization of Shakespeare or the writing out of some well-known document like the Constitution.

2017 September 27, Tom Healey, “Jug 'Em with a Jugum”, in Lessons from Loyola Hall, Cleveland: Saint Ignatius High School, retrieved 2021-11-24:

A common infraction that landed pupils in jug was getting caught using a stairwell that was reserved for use by faculty and other adults.

2018 October 16, Ted Slowik, “Slowik: Reunion reveals changes to high school, people and places in 35 years”, in Chicago Tribune, retrieved 2021-11-24:

In addition to JUGs and disciplinary lectures, spats and hacks, paddles used to smack misbehaving students, often went with receiving a JUG.

2020 March 8, Steele Clevenger, “A Look Back at JUGs”, in The Jesuit Chronicle, Beaverton, Oregon: Jesuit High School, retrieved 2021-11-24:

(US, Roman Catholicism, countable or uncountable) detention (after-school student punishment)


jug

en-verb

jug (third-person singular simple present jugs, present participle jugging, simple past and past participle jugged)

jugs (present singular third-person)
jugging (participle present)
jugged (participle past)
jugged (past)
JUG (alternative)

Students would say they “got JUGged,” meaning they’d been disciplined by a teacher. Most of the time punishment entailed memorizing a passage of a text or an obscure snatch of poetry.

2007 June 19, Julia Flynn Siler, The House of Mondavi: The Rise and Fall of an American Wine Dynasty, New York City: Penguin Group, →ISBN, page 60:

The first time I met Ben was in after-school detention. He’d been jugged for faking his mom’s signature, and I was serving for clapping erasers in the hallway.

2009, Anthony Varallo, This Day in History, Iowa City, Iowa: University of Iowa Press, via Google Books, →ISBN, page 6:

(US, Roman Catholicism, transitive) to issue a detention (to a student)


archpriest

From Middle English archepreest, archeprest, archiprest, ercheprest, erchepreste; compare Old French archeprestre and Medieval Latin archipresbyter; equivalent to arch- + priest.

(Eastern Orthodox Church) The highest rank given to a married priest.

(Roman Catholicism) An honorific title applied to a priest who has a specific function.


indulgence

en-noun

indulgence (countable and uncountable, plural indulgences)

indulgences (plural)
indulgency (alternative)

From Middle English indulgence, indulgens, from Middle French indulgence and its source, Latin indulgentia.

To understand how indulgences were intended to work depends on linking together a number of assumptions about sin and the afterlife, each of which individually makes considerable sense.

2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 555:

(Roman Catholicism) A pardon or release from the expectation of punishment in purgatory, after the sinner has been granted absolution.


indulgence

en-verb

indulgence (third-person singular simple present indulgences, present participle indulgencing, simple past and past participle indulgenced)

indulgences (present singular third-person)
indulgencing (participle present)
indulgenced (participle past)
indulgenced (past)
indulgency (alternative)

(transitive, Roman Catholicism) to provide with an indulgence


indulgence

fr-noun

indulgence f (countable and uncountable, plural indulgences)

Learned borrowing from Latin indulgentia.

lbor

(countable, Roman Catholicism) indulgence


parish

From Middle English parisshe, from Old French paroisse (compare the obsolete variant paroch, from Anglo-Norman paroche, parosse), from Late Latin parochia, from Ancient Greek παροικία (paroikía, “a dwelling abroad”).

der

General American, Mary–marry–merry merger

With some of it on the south and more of it on the north of the great main thoroughfare that connects Aldgate and the East India Docks, St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London.

1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

(Anglicanism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Lutheranism, Roman Catholicism) An administrative part of a diocese that has its own church.

Anglicanism; Eastern Orthodoxy; Anglicanism; Eastern Orthodoxy

In some countries, an administrative subdivision of an area.

An administrative subdivision in the U.S. state of Louisiana that is equivalent to a county in other U.S. states.


forma

pl-noun

forma f (diminutive foremka, related adjective formowy)

foremka (diminutive)
formowy (adjective)
forma (nominative singular)
formy (nominative plural)
formy (genitive singular)
form (genitive plural)
formie (dative singular)
formom (dative plural)
formę (accusative singular)
formy (accusative plural)
formą (instrumental singular)
formami (instrumental plural)
formie (locative singular)
formach (locative plural)
formo (singular vocative)
formy (plural vocative)

→ Kashubian: fòrma

(obsolete, Roman Catholicism) choirstall


reduction

en-noun

reduction (countable and uncountable, plural reductions)

From Middle English reduccion, a borrowing from Old French reducion, from Latin reductiō, reductiōnem.

Spanish reductions in Mexico were common during the 18th century.

(historical, Roman Catholicism) A religious settlement created during a mission by Spanish or Portuguese colonists with the intent of evangelizing Christianity to the local population.


Easter

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.


lectionary

(Christianity, Judaism) A book or listing that contains a collection of scripture readings appointed for Christian or Jewish worship on a given day or occasion.


confessio

la-noun

cōnfessiō f (genitive cōnfessiōnis); third declension

cōnfessiō (canonical feminine)
cōnfessiōnis (genitive)
cōnfessiō (nominative singular)
cōnfessiōnēs (nominative plural)
cōnfessiōnis (genitive singular)
cōnfessiōnum (genitive plural)
cōnfessiōnī (dative singular)
cōnfessiōnibus (dative plural)
cōnfessiōnem (accusative singular)
cōnfessiōnēs (accusative plural)
cōnfessiōne (ablative singular)
cōnfessiōnibus (ablative plural)
cōnfessiō (singular vocative)
cōnfessiōnēs (plural vocative)

→ Catalan: confessió

→ English: confessio

→ Galician: confesión

→ Italian: confessione

→ Occitan: confession

desctree

→ Old French: confession
French: confession
→ German: Konfession
→ Romanian: confesiune
→ Middle English: confessioun, confession, confessyon, confessyone, confessyown
English: confession

→ Old Irish: cobais

→ Portuguese: confissão

→ Russian: конфе́ссия (konféssija)

→ Spanish: confesión

→ Welsh: cyffes

[kõːˈfɛs̠ːioː]

From cōnfiteor (“to confess, to acknowledge”) + -tiō.

suf

(Ecclesiastical Latin) creed or avowal of one's faith

(Ecclesiastical Latin) confession (disclosure of one's sins to a priest in order to receive absolution from God)


urbi et orbi

[ˈʊrbiː ˈɛt̪ ˈɔrbiː]


Anointing of the Sick

A Catholic sacrament in which a priest anoints a sick or dying person with oil and prays for his salvation.


supernumerary

From Late Latin supernumerarius (“extra soldier added to a legion; supernumerary”), from super (“above; beyond”) + numerus (“number; collection, quantity”) + -ārius (suffix forming adjectives from nouns or numerals). The word is analysable as super- + numeral + -ary.

refn

From Joseph C. Hughes (1897 September) “Supernumerary Finger Growing from First Metacarpal Bone”, in James Moores Ball, editor, Tri-State Medical Journal and Practitioner, volume IV, number 9, St. Louis, Mo.: [s.n.] 3509 Franklin Avenue, →OCLC, figure 2, page 436.

bor

“Supernumeraries”, the bulk of Opus Dei members, can marry and live in their own homes, with slightly fewer spiritual obligations.

2024 March 16, Antonia Cundy, “The Opus Dei diaries”, in FT Weekend, page 17:

(Roman Catholicism) A married man or woman who is a secular member of Opus Dei, a Roman Catholic religious institution.


oratory

oratories (plural)
Oratory (alternative)

From Middle English oratorie, from Anglo-Norman oratorie, Middle French oratoire, and their source, Late Latin ōrātōrium. Doublet of oratorio.

/ˈɒɹət(ə)ɹi/

By public oratories are meant those attached to monasteries, convents, seminaries, etc., having a public entrance by which the faithful have access to them.

1876, Michael Comerford, The Book of Holy Indulgences […] , page 29:

A Roman Catholic chapel; a building for public or private worship that is not a parish church.

They had been given the old Oscott College premises as a temporary home, but were content there until Oratories could be established in the cities. St Philip Neri had specifically intended that the Oratory should be a city-based form of communal and missionary life.

2006, Judith F. Champ, William Bernard Ullathorne, 1806–1889: A Different Kind of Monk, →ISBN, page 168:

(specifically) A Catholic church belonging to the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri.


oratory

Borrowed from Latin ōrātōria, from the feminine of ōrātōrius (“oratorial”).

/ˈɒɹət(ə)ɹi/

Rising from humble farmhand to community organizer to a leader of the national Fatah party, Mr. Barghouti became known for his soaring oratory and common touch.

2024, Taylor Luck and Fatima AbdulKarim, Palestinian Mandela? Marwan Barghouti, imprisoned preacher of unity., in: The Christian Science Monitor, April 1 2024

Eloquence; the quality of artistry and persuasiveness in speech or writing.


camerlengo

camerlengos (plural)
camarlengo (alternative)
camerlingo (alternative)

Borrowed from Italian camerlengo (“chamberlain”). Doublet of chamberlain.

bor+

Benedict will also stop using the so-called fisherman’s ring to seal documents. It will be destroyed by the cardinal camerlengo, the acting head of state of Vatican City during the “sede vacante,” the canon law term used when the papacy is vacant.

2013 February 26, Gaia Pianigiani, Elisabetta Povoledo, “Benedict XVI to Be Known as Emeritus in Retirement”, in New York Times:

The cardinal who administers the Roman Catholic Church in the interregnum between Popes.


camerlengo

(Roman Catholicism) camerlengo (cardinal who presides over the Apostolic Chamber and, in a pontifical interregnum, is responsible for governing the Church in the administrative field)


syllabus

syllabus (nominative singular)
syllabusy (nominative plural)
syllabusa (genitive singular)
syllabusów (genitive plural)
syllabusowi (dative singular)
syllabusom (dative plural)
syllabus (accusative singular)
syllabusy (accusative plural)
syllabusem (instrumental singular)
syllabusami (instrumental plural)
syllabusie (locative singular)
syllabusach (locative plural)
syllabusie (singular vocative)
syllabusy (plural vocative)
sylabus (alternative)

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin syllabus, from Ancient Greek σιττύβα (sittúba). Sense 2 is a semantic loan from English syllabus.

sl

(Roman Catholicism) syllabus (summary of points decided by Roman Catholic papal decree regarding heretical doctrines or practices)


Opus Dei

(Christianity) The Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei, a Roman Catholic organization composed of a prelate, secular clergy and lay people, whose mission is to spread the Catholic teaching that everyone is called to become a saint; its lay members, men and women, engage in the affairs of the world and seek to direct them "according to God's will".


presidential

en-adj

presidential (comparative more presidential, superlative most presidential)

more presidential (comparative)
most presidential (superlative)
Presidential (alternative)

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


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)


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)


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)

limbos (plural)
limboes (plural)
Limbo (alternative)

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 (date delivered; 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.


prima

→ Hunsrik: Prim

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

inh+

(Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy) the first canonical hour


provincial

/pɹəˈvɪnt͡ʃəl/

From Middle English provincial, from Old French provincial, from Latin prōvinciālis (“of a 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


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.


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.


Jesuit

Learned borrowing from New Latin Iēsuīta.

lbor

(Catholicism) a member of the Society of Jesus


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

Friulian: messe

Italian: messa

→ Latvian: mesa

Occitan: messa

desctree

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

Old French: messe
Middle French: messe
French: messe

→ Old Galician-Portuguese: missa, misa, mjsa, mjssa, mysa, myssa
Fala: misa
Galician: misa
Portuguese: missa (see there for further descendants)

→ Old High German: missa, messa
Middle High German: messe, misse
Central Franconian:
Hunsrik: Mess
German: Messe

Old Spanish:

Spanish: misa

→ Polish: msza

Romanian: misă, mesă

Serbo-Croatian: misa

Sardinian: miscia

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 *meyth₂- (“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


missa

missa (nominative singular)
missā (nominative plural)
missa (accusative singular)
missā (accusative plural)
missa (genitive singular)
missōno (genitive plural)
missu (dative singular)
missōm (dative plural)
messa (alternative)

desctree

Middle High German: messe, misse
Central Franconian:
Hunsrik: Mess
German: Messe

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin missa, from Latin missiō, from mittō + -tiō.


missa

Kabuverdianu: misa

Papiamentu: misa

desctree

→ Malay: misa
Indonesian: misa
→ Iban: misa

→ Nheengatu: misa

⇒ Old Tupi: missa-pytuna
Nheengatu: misa-pituna

From Old Galician-Portuguese missa, from Ecclesiastical Latin missa (“mass”), from Latin mittō (“to send”), from Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂- (“to exchange, remove”).

der

(Roman Catholicism) mass (religion: celebration of the Eucharist)


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


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.


protector

protectors (plural)
protectour (alternative)

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.


secretariat

secretariats (plural)
secretariate (alternative)

/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


confession

confession (countable and uncountable, plural confessions)

confessions (plural)
confessione (alternative)

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.


Advent

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


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.


Curia

The central administration of the Roman Catholic Church.


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)


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)


Padre

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


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)


Papa

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

bor+

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


Victor

[vïk̟̚˧˦ tɔ˧˧]

[vɨt̚˦˧˥ tɔ˧˧]

[vɨt̚˦˥ tɔ˧˧]

[jɨt̚˦˥ tɔ˧˧]

From Latin Victor. Cognate with English Victor.


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)


benediction

en-noun

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

lauras (plural)
laurae (plural)
lavra (alternative)

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


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


RC

en-noun

RC (countable and uncountable, plural RCs)

(Roman Catholicism) Initialism of Roman Catholic.


reconciliation

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


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.


antipapal

en-adj

antipapal (comparative more antipapal, superlative most antipapal)

more antipapal (comparative)
most antipapal (superlative)


antipapal

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


antipapal

es-adj

antipapal m or f (masculine and feminine plural antipapales)


custody

en-noun

custody (usually uncountable, plural custodies)

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

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.


sext

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

(Roman Catholicism) The service appointed for this hour.


Pe.

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


Ablasshandel

de-noun

Ablasshandel m (strong, genitive Ablasshandels, no plural)

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

(historical, Roman Catholicism) selling of indulgences


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)


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.


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


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.


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)
dispence (alternative)

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.


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.


res judicata

res judicatae (plural)
res iudicata (alternative)

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.