Missa

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  • n. a mass, in the sense of a composition setting several sung parts of the liturgic service (most often chosen from the ordinary parts Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Agnus Dei and/or Sanctus) to music, notably when the text in Latin is used (as long universally prescribed by Rome)
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The service or sacrifice of the Mass.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The mass; a mass.
  • n. In the Mozarabic liturgy, a variable prayer or address, called more fully the Oratio Missœ (Prayer of the Mass), answering to the Gallican Præfatio Missœ (Preface of the Mass). It probably derived its name from the fact that the dismissal (missa) of the catechumens originally preceded it.
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