Paternoster

Quick meaning: Paternoster is a noun meaning (Christianity) The Lord's Prayer, especially in a Roman Catholic context.

Meaning

(Christianity) The Lord's Prayer, especially in a Roman Catholic context.

More Meanings

1. A slow, continuously moving lift or elevator consisting of a loop of open-fronted cabins running the height of a building.
2. (architecture, millwork) A bead-like ornament in mouldings.
3. (fishing) A tackle rig with a heavy sinker at the end of the line, and one or more hooks on traces at right angles spaced above the sinker.
4. (Christianity, archaic) A string of beads used in counting prayers that are said.
5. (Christianity, archaic) Every eleventh bead in a rosary, at which, while counting the beads, the Lord's Prayer is to be repeated.
6. (Christianity, archaic) A medieval artisan who crafted rosary beads or prayer nuts.
7. (archaic) A patent medicine, so named because salesmen would pray the Lord's Prayer over it before selling it.

Example Sentences

Holonyms: rosary; prayer beads

The friar had said his paternosters duly

Near-synonyms: nostrum, nostrum remedium

PATERNOSTER TWIN This rig is slightly more complicated than the single paternoster, however this rig has the added advantage of having two hooks, these can be different sizes and be baited with different baits.

Word Forms

• paternosters
• paternostering
• paternostered

Synonyms for paternoster

Depending on context, synonyms include nostrum.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include panagiarion, monopatrism, patriarchy, patriarchate, patrist, patristicism.

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