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Definition: STABAT MATER |
STABAT MATER1. A celebrated Latin hymn, beginning with these words, commemorating the sorrows of the mother of our Lord at the foot of the cross. It is read in the Mass of the Sorrows of the Virgin Mary, and is sung by Catholics when making "the way of the cross" (Via Crucis). See Station, 7 (c). |
Date "STABAT MATER" was first used: 1867. (references) |
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Health | The outermost tough member of three meninges covering the brain, the spinal cord, and the optic nerve. (references) |
Literature | Stabat Mater The celebrated Latin hymn on the Crucifixion, which forms a part of the service during Passion week, in the Roman Catholic Church. It was composed by Jacopone, a Franciscan of the thirteenth century, and has been set to music by Pergolese, also by Rossini. In the catalogue of the Library of Burgundy, No. 13,993, is the following:- "Item fol. 77. Benedictus Papa XII. composuit hane orationem: `Stabat Mater dolorosa iuxta crucem,' etc., concessitque cuilibet confesso poenitenti dicenti eam pro qualibet vice 30 dies indulgentium." (Sixteenth century.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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It has been put to music by many composers, among them Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Gioacchino Rossini, Antonin Dvorak, Krzysztof Penderecki and Karol Szymanowski.
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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stabat mater | 33 |
stabat mater pergolesi | 4 |
vivaldi stabat mater | 2 |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-b-e-m-r-s-t-t-t" | |
-3 letters: ratatats, tabarets. | |
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| Words containing the letters "a-a-a-b-e-m-r-s-t-t-t" | |
+5 letters: retinoblastomata. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 54 41 42 41 54 4D 41 54 45 52 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01010100 01000001 01000010 01000001 01010100 00100000 01001101 01000001 01010100 01000101 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S T A B A T   M A T E R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0054 0041 0042 0041 0054 004D 0041 0054 0045 0052 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53543536355424735543952 |
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