Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In anc. art, a female figure in an attitude of prayer; a female adorant.
- noun In early Christian art, a female figure standing with arms outspread or slightly raised in prayer, symbolizing the church as engaged in adoration and intercession.
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- noun An image of a person with
hands up inprayer .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The four-voice Salve regina, sub-titled ‘Diversi diversa orant’, incorporates seven Marian antiphons, each of the lower voices freely paraphrasing two plainsong antiphons in succession while the superius unfolds the Salve.
Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009
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Vnde Nestorini in partibus illis nullo modo iungunt manus orando: sed orant extensis palmis ante pectus.
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Habent etiam vitas patrum et eremitas et domes, in quibus orant temporibus suis, ad modum Ecclesiarum facias.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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Vnde Nestorini in partibus illis nullo modo iungunt manus orando: sed orant extensis palmis ante pectus.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Kytai autem, de quibus superius diximus, homines sunt Pagani, qui habent literam specialem: et habent nouum et vetus Testamentum; et habent vitas patrum, et Erimitas et domos quasi Ecclesias factas, in quibus orant temporibus suis: Et dicunt se quosdam sanctos, habere.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Habent etiam vitas patrum et eremitas et domes, in quibus orant temporibus suis, ad modum Ecclesiarum facias.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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But darkness at last intervened and terminated the engagement. postridie in castra ex urbe ad nos veniunt flentes principes: velatis manibus orant ignoscamus peccatum suom, deduntque se, divina humanaque omnia, urbem et liberos indicionem atque in arbitratum cuncti Thebano poplo. post ob virtutem ero Amphitruoni patera donata aurea est, 260 qui Pterela potitare solitus est rex. haec sic dicam erae nunc pergam eri imperium exequi et me domum capessere.
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919
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Articles, where he identifies these terms, saying: "Sic enim orant pueri: Credo sanctam ecclesiam catholicam sive Christianam."
Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church 1894
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In Germany orant (whatever that may be), blue marjoram, and black cumin; and in
The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology Edwin Sidney Hartland 1887
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Gargani -- verily, laborant; _now_, et orant.) "The pilgrims wished to visit during their journey the monasteries built on these two mountains, and therefore nearly always, either going or returning to the Holy Land, passed through Magna Græcia.
The Pleasures of England Lectures given in Oxford John Ruskin 1859
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