AMBROSE

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• AMBROSE (noun)
  The noun AMBROSE has 1 sense:

1. (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)

  Familiarity information: AMBROSE used as a noun is very rare.

• AMBROSE (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)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Ambrose; Saint Ambrose; St. Ambrose

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 

Stand forward, Ambrose, and tell your story as frankly and as fully as you have told it to me.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Springing forward, he hurled his unwieldy weapon at brother Ambrose, and, as desk and monk clattered on to the floor together, he sprang through the open door and down the winding stair.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Ambrose, you are a black villain,” said my uncle.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is true also that I did lay my hands upon this jack-fool of a brother Ambrose, though, as you can see, I did him little scathe.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My uncle touched me on the shoulder, and we were about to leave, when Ambrose, whose bronze mask had been drawn down once more over his fiery passions, came demurely towards him.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

That impassive, mask-like face and demure manner could only belong to Ambrose, the former valet of my uncle.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We found a note from Ambrose waiting for us which increased rather than explained the mystery of his disappearance.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Item, that having been told by the master of the novices that he should restrict his food for two days to a single three-pound loaf of bran and beans, for the greater honoring and glorifying of St. Monica, mother of the holy Augustine, he was heard by brother Ambrose and others to say that he wished twenty thousand devils would fly away with the said Monica, mother of the holy Augustine, or any other saint who came between a man and his meat.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)