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Ash Wednesday

The first day of Lent; -- so called from a custom in the Roman Catholic church of putting ashes, on that day, upon the foreheads of penitents.

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Lent 70% connected

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Lententide 70% connected

The season of Lenten or Lent.

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Acolyte noun · 78% connection

someone who assists a priest or minister in a liturgical service; a cleric ordained in the highest of the minor orders in the Roman Ca…

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Alb noun · 78% connection

A vestment of white linen, reaching to the feet, an enveloping the person; -- in the Roman Catholic church, worn by those in holy orde…

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Amice noun · 78% connection

A square of white linen worn at first on the head, but now about the neck and shoulders, by priests of the Roman Catholic Church while…

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Armenian noun · 78% connection

An adherent of the Armenian Church, an organization similar in some doctrines and practices to the Greek Church, in others to the Roma…

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Bottomry noun · 78% connection

A contract in the nature of a mortgage, by which the owner of a ship, or the master as his agent, hypothecates and binds the ship (and…

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Breviary noun · 78% connection

A book containing the daily public or canonical prayers of the Roman Catholic or of the Greek Church for the seven canonical hours, na…

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Carnival noun · 78% connection

A festival celebrated with merriment and revelry in Roman Gatholic countries during the week before Lent, esp. at Rome and Naples, dur…

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Catholic noun · 78% connection

An adherent of the Roman Catholic church; a Roman Catholic.

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Catholicize v. t. & i. · 78% connection

To make or to become catholic or Roman Catholic.

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Chaperon noun · 78% connection

A device placed on the foreheads of horses which draw the hearse in pompous funerals.

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Chasuble noun · 78% connection

The outer vestment worn by the priest in saying Mass, consisting, in the Roman Catholic Church, of a broad, flat, back piece, and a na…

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Church noun · 78% connection

A body of Christian believers, holding the same creed, observing the same rites, and acknowledging the same ecclesiastical authority;…

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Confirmation noun · 78% connection

A rite supplemental to baptism, by which a person is admitted, through the laying on of the hands of a bishop, to the full privileges…

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Congregation noun · 78% connection

A body of cardinals or other ecclesiastics to whom as intrusted some department of the church business; as, the Congregation of the Pr…

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Cresselle noun · 78% connection

A wooden rattle sometimes used as a substitute for a bell, in the Roman Catholic church, during the latter part of Holy Week, or the l…

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Dirige noun · 78% connection

A service for the dead, in the Roman Catholic Church, being the first antiphon of Matins for the dead, of which Dirige is the first wo…

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Doorkeeper noun · 78% connection

the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church

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Exorcist noun · 78% connection

one of the minor orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed in the Roman Catholic Church

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