Leonine
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Leonine may refer to:
- Leonine CityLeonine CityThe Leonine City is that part of the city of Rome around which the ninth-century Pope Leo IV commissioned the construction of the Leonine Wall. It is on the opposite side of the Tiber from the seven hills of Rome and was not enclosed within the ancient city's Aurelian Walls, built between 271 and...
, a part of the city of Rome - Leonine faciesLeonine faciesLeonine facies: a face that resembles that of a lion. It is seen in multiple conditions and has been classically described for Lepromatous leprosy as well as Paget's disease of bone...
, a face that resembles that of a lion - Leonine PrayersLeonine PrayersThe Leonine Prayers are a set of prayers that from 1884 to early 1965 were prescribed by the Popes for recitation after Low Mass. They are still sometimes used at celebrations of the Tridentine Mass today....
, a set of prayers that from 1884 to early 1965 were prescribed by the Popes for recitation after Low Mass - Leonine Sacramentary, a manuscript written in the seventh century
- Leonine verseLeonine verseLeonine verse is a type of versification based on internal rhyme, and commonly used in Latin verse of the European Middle Ages. The invention of such conscious rhymes, foreign to Classical Latin poetry, is traditionally attributed to a probably apocryphal monk Leonius, who is supposed to be the...
, a type of versification based on internal rhyme , and commonly used in Latin verse of the European Middle Ages