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Paternoster

noun
1.
(Roman Catholic Church) the Lord's Prayer in Latin; translates as 'our father'.
2.
A type of lift having a chain of open compartments that move continually in an endless loop so that (agile) passengers can step on or off at each floor.





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"Paternoster" Quotes from Famous Books



... (laughing-stock) Metomentodo (busybody) Paternoster (Lord's Prayer) Quitaipon (ornament for headstall of draught beasts) Sabelotodo ...
— Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.) • C. A. Toledano
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... prince in Europe was sending a special embassy to London, to congratulate James I. on his book against witchcraft, which none of them ever professed to have read, a strange occurrence happened in an ancient house, situated in the Amen-Corner of Paternoster Row. Like most of the houses of old London, its lower half was brick, and its upper, English oak. It had been built in the time of the first Tudor, but, being still a substantial tenement, was purchased some ten years ...
— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 432 - Volume 17, New Series, April 10, 1852 • Various
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... furnished with all the recent appliances; and from this press has issued works distinguished as much for their typographical beauty as for the area they cover in the mission field. Its font of Oriental types is specially rich. We were shown specimens of the Paternoster in all the known languages; and my friend had an opportunity of inspecting some theological works in the obscure dialects of India. The productions of the Propaganda press are very widely diffused. There is a bookseller's shop connected with the establishment, where all the publications ...
— Roman Mosaics - Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood • Hugh Macmillan
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... an inquiring and genteel mind has now to wander for his politeness to Paternoster-row[2]; to Pierce Egan, for his knowledge of men and manners; and to Owen Swift, for his knightly accomplishments, and exercises ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 1, August 21, 1841 • Various
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Words linked to "Paternoster" :   Roman Church, Church of Rome, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Catholic, elevator, U.K., United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Lord's Prayer, lift, Great Britain, United Kingdom, Britain, UK, Western Church


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