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Rosary
in ordinary language, a chaplet, a garland. Also, a bed of roses; a place where roses grow; or a coin so called from bearing the figure of a rose, of foreign coinage, about the size of a penny, but worth less than a halfpenny, chiefly smuggled into Ireland. In 1300 it was made death to import them. In comparative religion, a string of beads by means of which account is kept of the number of prayers uttered.
In the Roman Catholic Church: (1) A form of prayer in which the "Hail Mary" is recited 150 times in honor of the Virgin Mary. It is divided into 15 decades, each of which begins with the "Our Father" (see LORD'S PRAYER), is accompanied by meditation on one of the mysteries in the life of our Lord, and ends with the doxology. This is properly called the Dominican, or Great Rosary, but the name is often popularly given to the Chaplet, which contains but 50 aves. The 15 Mysteries which should be meditated on during the recitation of the Rosary are divided into three series, each corresponding to a chaplet : 1. Joyful. The Annunciation, the Visitation, the Birth of Jesus, the Presentation in the Temple, the Finding in the Temple. 2. Sorrowful. - The Agony in the Garden, the Scourging at the Pillar, the C6H9 CH3. Crowning with Thorns, the Carrying of the Cross, the Crucifixion.
NH. a red dye, occurring in commerce under the names of aniline red, azaleine, fuchsine, magenta, roseine, etc. It is prepared by heating a mixture of dry arsenic acid and aniline to 140°, for six or eight hours.
It forms colorless crystalline plates, which are colored red on exposure to the air, insoluble in water, but soluble in alcohol. The aniline reds used in dyeing are generally monoacid salts of rosaniline more or less pure.