Lexic.us

Definition of St. Lawrence

1. Noun. Roman martyr; supposedly Lawrence was ordered by the police to give up the church's treasure and when he responded by presenting the poor people of Rome he was roasted to death on a gridiron (died in 258).

2. Noun. A North American river; flows into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the North Atlantic.

Lexicographical Neighbors of St. Lawrence

St. James St. James the Apostle St. Jerome St. John St. John's St. John Chrysostom St. John River St. John the Apostle St. John the Baptist St. Johns

St. Johns River St. Joseph St. Jude St. Kitts St. Kitts and Nevis St. Lawrence (current term) St. Lawrence River St. Lawrence Seaway St. Leo I St. Louis

St. Lucia St. Luke St. Luke's summer St. Maarten St. Mark St. Martin St. Mary Magdalen St. Mary Magdalene St. Mary of Bethlehem St. Matthew

Literary usage of St. Lawrence

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The saintly Bishop of Milan also states that St. Lawrence was burned to death on a gridiron (De offic., xli). In like manner, but with more poetical ..."

2. American Jewish Year Book by American Jewish Committee, Jewish Publication Society of America (1916)
"Meldola, 338 Sher- brooke, W. Dreyfus, Henry, 1238 City Hall Av. Eagle Pub. Co., Ltd., 516 St. Lawrence Blvd. Eliasoph, MB, 254 Ontario, W. Falick, Abraham, ..."

3. The History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Cæsar, to the Revolution by David Hume (1810)
"The conquest of cape Breton, by giving us the command of the entrance -to the river St. Lawrence, enabled us to have the cooperation of ships of the line up ..."

Other Resources: