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Gregoʹrian Water or Gringorian Water

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Holy water; so called because Gregory I. was a most strenuous recommender of it.

“In, case they should happen to encounter with devils, by virtue of the Gringoriene water, they might make them disappear.”—Rabelais: Gargantua, book i. 43.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Greenlandman’s Galley
Greenwich
Greenwich Barbers
Gregarines
Gregorian Calendar
Gregorian Chant
Gregorian Epoch
Gregorian Telescope
Gregorian Tree
Gregorian Water or Gringorian Water
Gregorian Year
Gregories
Gregory (A)
Gregory (St.)
Gregory Knights or St. Gregory’s Knights
Grenade
Grenadier
Grenadier Guards
Grendel
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