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Introit

noun
1.
A composition of vocal music that is appropriate for opening church services.





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... under a large and spacious walnut-tree. Without great difficulty they entered into that straw-thatched cottage, scurvily built, naughtily movabled, and all besmoked. It matters not, quoth Epistemon; Heraclitus, the grand Scotist and tenebrous darksome philosopher, was nothing astonished at his introit into such a coarse and paltry habitation; for he did usually show forth unto his sectators and disciples that the gods made as cheerfully their residence in these mean homely mansions as in sumptuous magnific palaces, replenished with all manner ...
— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais
... virgo.—Vern. clxii.] Hail, holy parent, who didst in child-birth bring forth the King who ruleth heaven and earth for ever and ever. Amen." [Salve sacra parens enixa puerpera regem, qui coelum terramque regit in saecula saeculorum. Amen.—Introit. at the mass on the ...
— Primitive Christian Worship • James Endell Tyler
... therefore suggest, for the consideration of those better acquainted with the subject, that these Psalms were adapted to be sung (not on the steps, as some think, but) as a kind of introit while the priests ascended the steps of ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 234, April 22, 1854 • Various


Words linked to "Introit" :   opus, piece of music, musical composition, composition, piece


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