Dictionary entry

Stabat Mater

Webster's Dictionary 1913

‖Sta″bat Ma″ter (stā″băt mā″tẽr). A celebrated Latin hymn, beginning with these words, commemorating the sorrows of the mother of our Lord at the foot of the cross. It is read in the Mass of the Sorrows of the Virgin Mary, and is sung by Catholics when making “the way of the cross” (Via Crucis). See Station, 7 (c).