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AMBROSE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(Roman Catholic Church) Roman priest who became bishop of Milan; the first Church Father born and raised in the Christian faith; composer of hymns; imposed orthodoxy on the early Christian church and built up its secular power; a saint and Doctor of the Church (340?-397)
Synonyms:
Ambrose; Saint Ambrose; St. Ambrose
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
bishop (a senior member of the Christian clergy having spiritual and administrative authority; appointed in Christian churches to oversee priests or ministers; considered in some churches to be successors of the twelve Apostles of Christ)
Church Father; Father; Father of the Church ((Christianity) any of about 70 theologians in the period from the 2nd to the 7th century whose writing established and confirmed official church doctrine; in the Roman Catholic Church some were later declared saints and became Doctor of the Church; the best known Latin Church Fathers are Ambrose, Augustine, Gregory the Great, and Jerome; those who wrote in Greek include Athanasius, Basil, Gregory Nazianzen, and John Chrysostom)
composer (someone who composes music as a profession)
Doctor; Doctor of the Church ((Roman Catholic Church) a title conferred on 33 saints who distinguished themselves through the orthodoxy of their theological teaching)
saint (a person who has died and has been declared a saint by canonization)
theologian; theologiser; theologist; theologizer (someone who is learned in theology or who speculates about theology)
Domain category:
Church of Rome; Roman Catholic; Roman Catholic Church; Roman Church; Western Church (the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy)
Derivation:
Ambrosian (of or by or relating to Saint Ambrose)
Context examples:
Here, Coppinger, send your best man back to Friar’s Oak as fast as his horse can go, to find news of my valet, Ambrose.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Run, brother Ambrose, brother Joachim!
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
MY uncle and I were up betimes next morning, but he was much out of temper, for no news had been heard of his valet Ambrose.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It is brother Ambrose.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“You are right, Ambrose,” my uncle answered.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Item, that upon brother Ambrose reproving him for this blasphemous wish, he did hold the said brother face downwards over the piscatorium or fish-pond for a space during which the said brother was able to repeat a pater and four aves for the better fortifying of his soul against impending death.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“You may go, Ambrose; you may go!” cried Lord Avon.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The charges against the said brother John are the following, namely, to wit: First, that on the above-mentioned Feast of the Assumption, small beer having been served to the novices in the proportion of one quart to each four, the said brother John did drain the pot at one draught to the detriment of brother Paul, brother Porphyry and brother Ambrose, who could scarce eat their none-meat of salted stock-fish on account of their exceeding dryness.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Ambrose, you will bring up the batteris de toilette at five.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
See that the triggers are oiled, Ambrose, for I love a light pull.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
