Definitions for Panagias

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Panagias Pa·na·gi·a

Spelling: [pah-nah-yee-ah]

IPA: /ˌpɑ nɑˈyi ɑ/

Panagias is a 8 letter English word.

You can make 169 anagrams from letters in Panagias (aaaginps).

Definitions for Panagias

noun

1. a ceremony in a monastery, commemorating the assumption of the Virgin Mary, in which a loaf of bread on a plate is elevated before being distributed to the monks.
2. (lowercase) an encolpion bearing the image of the Virgin Mary.

Origin of Panagias

1680-90; Late Greek Panágia the Virgin, feminine of Greek panágios all-holy, equivalent to pan- pan- + hágios holy

Examples for Panagias

At the foot of the steps the singers turned aside to allow the Panagia to go first.

He asked me whether they resembled the pictures of the Panagia, the Holy Virgin, which hang in every church.

The Panagia or pyx worn by a bishop, or higher prelate, is often an exquisite piece of jewelry.

Whatever the form, it were not becoming to stand between the Panagia and the enemy.

Even the very timid took heart, and went about thanking God and the Panagia Blachernitissa.

The retirement of the hordes at sight of the Panagia on the wall was by Mahommed's order.