Rosalina (rozalina)

[NL., The ruddy rosary , The souerayne rosemary, The praty strawbery. Skelton , Garland of Laurel, 1. 979. The sweetest and the fairest blo om that ever budded, either out of the white or red rosary . Proceedings against Garnet, etc., sig. D. d. 3 (1606). [( Latham. ) 3. A garland of roses; any garland; a chaplet. Every day propound to yourself a rosary or chaplet of good works, to present to God at night. Jer. Taylor , Holy Dying. ( Latham .) 4. Hence, an anthology; a book culled from various authors, like a garland of flowers: formerly often given as a title to works of such a character.-5. A string of beads carried about the person, either for mere pastime, as to occupy the fingers, or for reckoning, especially in numbering the prayers offered up at fixed times of the day. Mohammedans carry rosaries with them for both these purposes, wearing them in the girdle or carrying them in the hand at all hours of the day. 6. Specifically, in the Rom. Cath. Ch.: ( a ) A series of devotions consisting of a specified number of aves (that is, salutations to the Virgin Mary), of paternosters (that is, repetitions of the Lord's Prayer), and of glorias (or doxologies). Our Lady's Psalter... is now better known as the Ro Rock, Church of our Fathers, III. 1. 390. sary. (b) A string of beads of various sizes representing the same number of aves, paternosters, and glorias respectively, used for marking off these prayers. Each bead receives the name of the prayer it represents. The rosary is divided into decads of aves, each decad being preceded by a paternoster and followed by a gloria. The ordinary rosary, sometimes called the Dominican rosary, consists of fifteen decads that is, of one hundred and fifty aves (corresponding to the number of psalms in the Psalter), fifteen paternosters, and fifteen glorias. In this rosary each decad is de voted to the contemplation of a mystery of the life of Christ, the first five being joyful mysteries (such as the annunciation and the nativity), the second five being the sorrowful mysteries (such as the pa ion), the third five being the glorious mysteries (such as the resurrection and ascension). This regular use of the rosary of one hundred and fifty aves was first instituted by St. Dominic (1170-1221), although the devotional use of beads, etc., was already familiar. The term rosary also applies to a similar instrument of devotion in use among the Greeks, Armenians, and other Eastern communions. See chaplet1, 5. 7. A string of eggs of a batrachian wound about the body or limbs, as of the nurse-frog or obstetrical toad, Alytes obstetric ans. See cut under Alytes. E. D. Cope.-8. A counterfeit rosary coin of base metal, illegally introduced into England in the reign of Edward I. It probably bore a general resemblance to the silver penny or sterling current at the time, and may have derived its name from having a rose or rosette as part of its reverse type. Fes tival of the Rosary, a festival celebrated in the Roman Catholic Church on the first Sunday in October, in commemoration of the victory of the Christian forces over the Turks at Lepanto (1571). - Fraternity of the Rosary, a Roman Catholic order established in the fourteenth or fifteenth century for the purpose of averting public evils by means of prayer to God. To its prayers was ascribed the victory at Lepanto (see above). - Rosary-peas. See peal and rosary - plant. - Rosary ring. Same as decad ring (which see, under decad).