Ambrose

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Am·brose

(ăm′brōz′), Saint ad 340?-397.

Writer, composer, and bishop of Milan (374-397) who imposed orthodoxy on the early Christian Church.

Am·bro′sian (ăm-brō′zhən) adj.

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Ambrose

(ˈæmbrəʊz)

1. (Biography) Saint. ?340–397 ad, bishop of Milan; built up the secular power of the early Christian Church; also wrote music and Latin hymns. Feast day: Dec 7 or April 4

2. (Biography) Curtly (ˈkɜːtlɪ). born 1963, Antiguan cricketer; played for the West Indies 1987–2000

Amˈbrosian adj

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Am•brose

(ˈæm broʊz)

n.

Saint, A.D. 340?–397, bishop of Milan 374–397.

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Ambrose - (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)

Saint Ambrose, St. Ambrose

Church of Rome, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Church, Western Church, Roman Catholic - the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy

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AmbrosAmbrosius

Ambrose

[ˈæmbrəʊz] N → Ambrosio

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Ambrose leaned back in his chair and frowned heavily.

"You needn't play at being headquarters, Ambrose," he said hoarsely.

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Ambrose awful; but the quickest witted cried "Bluebeard!" as he passed.

Ambrose stood quite still, much longer than is natural, the little boys let her be.

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Bid the chancellor and the sub-chancellor lead in the brothers according to age, together with brother John, the accused, and brother Ambrose, the accuser."

"This plaint is thine, as I learn, brother Ambrose," said he.

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"Well, my dear Ambrose," she said, "I don't know what more we can do than feed him properly and give him pleasant people to talk to.

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Your squire Jocelyn knows him well, and will vouch him to be brother Ambrose, a monk in attendance upon the Prior of Jorvaulx.''

The Saxon prisoners were accordingly removed, just as they introduced the monk Ambrose, who appeared to be in great perturbation.

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The Percerin of that period was a Huguenot, like Ambrose Pare, and had been spared by the Queen of Navarre, the beautiful Margot, as they used to write and say, too, in those days; because, in sooth, he was the only one who could make for her those wonderful riding-habits which she so loved to wear, seeing that they were marvelously well suited to hide certain anatomical defects, which the Queen of Navarre used very studiously to conceal.

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"The priest who married you was one Ambrose Redman--a young man recently appointed to his clerical duties?"

Vanborough is a single woman; their child is illegitimate, and the priest, Ambrose Redman, is liable to be tried, and punished, as a felon, for marrying them."