The Lord’s Prayer; so called from the first two words in the Latin version. Every tenth bead of a rosary is so called, because at that bead the Lord’s Prayer is repeated. Formerly applied to the Rosary beads.
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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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