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An·ge·lus

also an·ge·lus (ăn′jə-ləs)

n. Christianity

1. A devotional prayer at morning, noon, and night to commemorate the Annunciation.

2. A bell rung as a call to recite this prayer.

[Medieval Latin, from Late Latin, angel (first word of the devotion); see angel.]

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Angelus

(ˈændʒɪləs)

1. (Roman Catholic Church) a series of prayers recited in the morning, at midday, and in the evening, commemorating the Annunciation and Incarnation

2. (Roman Catholic Church) the bell (Angelus bell) signalling these prayers

[C17: Latin, from the phrase Angelus domini nuntiavit Mariae the angel of the Lord brought tidings to Mary]

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An•ge•lus

(ˈæn dʒə ləs)

n. (often l.c.)

1. a devotion commemorating the Annunciation and the Incarnation in the Roman Catholic and some Anglican churches.

2. Also called An′gelus bell`. the bell announcing the Angelus.

[1720–30; < Late Latin, from the first word of the service: Angelus (dominī nūntiāvit Mariae). See angel]

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Noun	1.	angelus - the sound of a bell rung in Roman Catholic churches to announce the time when the Angelus should be recited angelus bell bell, toll - the sound of a bell being struck; "saved by the bell"; "she heard the distant toll of church bells"
	2.	Angelus - a prayer said 3 times a day by Roman Catholics in memory of the Annunciation

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angelus

[ˈændʒɪləs] N → ángelus m

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angelus

n → Angelusläuten nt; (= prayer) → Angelus nt

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Angelus

[ˈændʒɪləs] n → Angelus m inv

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It was now close upon twilight-the hour of the Angelus. Very solemnly the red-headed brats rose from the floor and formed a semicircle.

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Sometimes one caught sight, upon a bell tower, of an enormous head and a bundle of disordered limbs swinging furiously at the end of a rope; it was Quasimodo ringing vespers or the Angelus. Often at night a hideous form was seen wandering along the frail balustrade of carved lacework, which crowns the towers and borders the circumference of the apse; again it was the hunchback of Notre-Dame.

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Yet the fishers and the peasants raised their heads and looked questions at each other, for the angelus had already gone and vespers was still far off.

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But they quarrelled, for one morning when she returned from the Angelus she found him in the kitchen coolly eating a dish which he had prepared for himself during her absence.

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THE crew of a trawler that appears on TV's The Angelus, had a lucky escape yesterday after a mid-sea collision with a 240-metre oil tanker.

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Very cleverly, Francesco ("Franciscus" in the dialogue) in his dedicatory letter stresses to "Angelus," the humanist Politian, that "studium omne/sine dyaletica [sic] inane esse" and that his new "pupil" has chosen rightly in seeking to perfect himself in logic (49).

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He first attracted attention with De l'Angelus de l'aube a l'Angelus du soir (1898; "From the Morning Angelus to the Evening Angelus").

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On the radio the Angelus Is rung, marking six o'clock, its overtones Silencing for a moment our talk, then vanishing In the leaving light.

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That angelus ex machina is undeniably spectacular, but it is not really earned by the characters and story.

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As shade by shade night's black lilac, greying fades, gathering in its going a memory of color that once was love, I see you swept away-- pale ocean bird, hanging, an instant, outspread between the wave's white veil, angelus of the morning star.