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tartana(2)(dictionary)

litany (iou) and tartana(1) (iou)


litany (iou)



litany noun. ME.
[Old French letanie (mod. litanie) from ecclesiastical Latin litania from Greek litaneia prayer, entreaty, from litaneuein pray, from litanos suppliant, from lite supplication: see -Y3.]
Christian Church. A series of supplications, deprecations, or intercessions in which the clergy lead and Other people respond, the same formula of response usu. being repeated for several successive clauses (used either as part of a service or by itself, in the latter case often in procession). ME.
the Litany that form of 'General supplication' appointed for use in the Book of Common Prayer.
transf. A form of supplication (e.g. in non-Christian worship) resembling a litany; a continuous repetition or long enumeration, a repeated formula, a long series. LME.
W. Golding Our crew..invoked Allah and a whole litany of what I supposed were saints. H. Bailey 'A generation gone,' went the litany of the time. Sunday Times The reform of any socialist system is likely to involve a litany of words and phrases such as skills, market economy, mobility of labour.
Comb.: litany-desk, litany-stool a low movable prayer-desk at which a minister kneels while reciting the litany.

tartana(1) (iou)



tartana noun1. L16.
[Italian: see TARTAN noun2.]
= TARTAN noun2.