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agnus
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What does agnus mean?
noun
- Ellipsis of Agnus Dei.
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Beyond the Agnus Dei and Ave Maria, Mademoiselle Vaubois had no knowledge of anything except of the different ways of making preserves.
He dwells especially, too, upon the perfect protection afforded by the waxen Agnus Dei.
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But the finger that shewed our Lord, saying, Ecce Agnus Dei; that is to say, ‘Lo!
They had with them a crier of the township of Agnus, named Leos, who discovered to Theseus all the designs of the Pallantidae He immediately fell upon those that lay in ambuscade, and cut them all off; upon tidings of which Pallas and his company fled and were dispersed.
And as in beauty she surpass’d the choir, So nobler than the rest was her attire; A crown of ruddy gold enclosed her brow, Plain without pomp, and rich without a show; A branch of Agnus Castus in her hand, She bore aloft her symbol of command.