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Definition of Ave maria
1. Noun. A salutation to the Virgin Mary now used in prayers to her.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ave Maria
Literary usage of Ave maria
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1877)
"ave maria. A BRETON LEGEND. IN the ages of faith, before the day When men were
too proud to weep or pray, There stood i:ia red-roofed Breton town Snugly ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"What is certain is that an ave maria identical with our own, except for the ...
The official recognition of the ave maria in its complete One or two other ..."
3. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... to tell, ave maria, &c. But be ytte ne sed bie elde or ... He son^e to the
nones and iras poren agen With ave maria, &c. DIALOGUE BETWEEN MASTER PHILPOT ..."
4. Gentleman's Magazine Library edited by George Laurence Gomme, Frank Alexander Milne, Lady A C Bickley, Mrs Alice Bertha Merck Gomme (1904)
"ave maria LANE. In digging for a foundation, in order to shore up a wall at a
house in ave maria Lane, the workmen discovered in the cellar an oblong piece ..."
5. The Poetical Works of Thomas Chatterton: With Notices of His Life, History by Thomas Chatterton (1842)
"ave maria, Jesu Maria. ... to tell; ave maria, &c. But be ytte ne sed bie Elde or
... to the Nones and was poren agen V'ith ave maria, &c. ..."
6. An apology for the Bible, in a series of letters addressed to T. Paine by Richard Watson (1808)
"RINTED FOR SCATCHERD AND LETTERMAN, , ave maria LANE, LONDON. A COMPANION TO THE
ALTAR; showing the Nature and ..."
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