• (Roman Catholic Church) a devotion consisting of fourteen prayers said before a series of fourteen pictures or carvings representing successive incidents during Jesus' passage from Pilate's house to his crucifixion at Calvary
Example sentence
• I always listen to the news on the radio stations.
• relating to or belonging to the Republican Party
noun
• an advocate of a republic (usually in opposition to a monarchy)
adjective satellite
• having the supreme power lying in the body of citizens entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them or characteristic of such government
• the unit of plane angle adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites; equal to the angle at the center of a circle subtended by an arc equal in length to the radius (approximately 57.295 degrees)
Example sentence
• The angle is given in radians rather than degrees.
• a card game in which you play your sevens and other cards in sequence in the same suit as the sevens; you win if you are the first to use all your cards
• (Vedanta) The true self of an individual beyond identification with worldly phenomena, the essence of an individual, an infinitesimal part of Brahman.
• insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing
Example sentence
• Some species of dipterans, such as mosquitoes, can transmit diseases.
• a traditional Indonesian ensemble typically including many tuned percussion instruments including bamboo xylophones and wooden or bronze chimes and gongs
Example sentence
• The gamelans played a traditional Indonesian melody.
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