A series of prayers, usually made up of five, fifteen, or twenty decades of Hail Marys, each decade beginning with Our Father and ending with a Glory Be to the Father, sometimes including other prayers used in Roman Catholicism, and the Anglican, Lutheran, and Old Catholic churches.
A string of beads used to keep track of repetitions in praying or mantras, and particularly in counting the prayers said in a rosary, by members of various religions or denominations other than Roman Catholicism such as Hinduism or the Anglican Church
A series or collection, as of beautiful thoughts or of literary selections.
Jeremy TaylorEvery day propound to yourself a rosary or chaplet of good works to present to God at night.
A coin bearing the figure of a rose, fraudulently circulated in Ireland in the 13th century for a penny.