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Pater Noster

Variant of paternoster

noun

  1. the Lord's Prayer, esp. in Latin
    1. one of the large beads of a rosary on which the Lord's Prayer is said
    2. Archaic a rosary
  2. a muttered prayer or incantation

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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