Word Meanings - ANGELUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A form of devotion in which three Ave Marias are repeated. It is said at morning, noon, and evening, at the sound of a bell. The Angelus bell. Shipley.

Related words: (words related to ANGELUS)

• REPEAT
  To repay or refund . To repeat one's self, to do or say what one has already done or said. -- To repeat signals, to make the same signals again; specifically, to communicate, by repeating them, the signals shown at headquarters. Syn.
• THREE-SQUARE
  Having a cross section in the form of an equilateral triangle; -- said especially of a kind of file.
• EVENMINDED
  Having equanimity.
• REPEATEDLY
  More than once; again and again; indefinitely.
• EVENT
  1. That which comes, arrives, or happens; that which falls out; any incident, good or bad. "The events of his early years." Macaulay. To watch quietly the course of events. Jowett There is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked. Eccl. ix.
• THREE-MILE
  Of or pertaining to three miles; as, the three-mile limit, or the limit of the marine belt of three miles included in territorial waters of a state.
• THREE-PILE
  An old name for the finest and most costly kind of velvet, having a fine, thick pile. I have served Prince Florizel and in my time wore three-pile. Shak.
• SOUNDER
  One who, or that which; sounds; specifically, an instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.
• THREE-DECKER
  A vessel of war carrying guns on three decks.
• DEVOTIONALLY
  In a devotional manner; toward devotion.
• THREE-SIDED
  Having three sides, especially three plane sides; as, a three- sided stem, leaf, petiole, peduncle, scape, or pericarp.
• EVENTILATION
  The act of eventilating; discussion. Bp. Berkely.
• THREE-CORNERED
  Having three prominent longitudinal angles; as, a three- cornered stem. (more info) 1. Having three corners, or angles; as, a three-cornered hat.
• THREE-PORT
  Having three ports; specif.: Designating a type of two-cycle internal-combustion engine in which the mixture enters the crank case through a port uncovered by the piston near the end of its stroke.
• SOUNDLESS
  Not capable of being sounded or fathomed; unfathomable. Shak.
• MORNE
  Of or pertaining to the morn; morning. "White as morne milk." Chaucer.
• THREE-PLY
  Consisting of three distinct webs inwrought together in weaving, as cloth or carpeting; having three strands; threefold.
• THREE-PARTED
  Divided into, or consisting of, three parts; tripartite. Three- parted leaf , a leaf divided into three parts down to the base, but not entirely separate.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• EVENTFUL
  Full of, or rich in, events or incidents; as, an eventful journey; an eventful period of history; an eventful period of life.
• IMPREVENTABLE
  Not preventable; invitable.
• HIGH-SOUNDING
  Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles.
• RESOUND
  resonare; pref. re- re- + sonare to sound, sonus sound. See Sound to 1. To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far. 2. To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song. 3. To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound. "Common fame
• PREVENTATIVE
  That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
• SEVENNIGHT
  A week; any period of seven consecutive days and nights. See Sennight.
• REVENDICATION
  The act of revendicating. Vattel
• IMPREVENTABILITY
  The state or quality of being impreventable.
• PREVENIENCE
  The act of going before; anticipation.
• CROMORNA
  A certain reed stop in the organ, of a quality of tone resembling that of the oboe. (more info) G. krummhorn crooked horn, cornet, an organ pipe turned like a