Venite
Americannoun
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the 95th Psalm (94th in the Vulgate and Douay), used as a canticle at matins or morning prayers.
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a musical setting of this psalm.
noun
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ecclesiast the opening word of the 95th psalm, an invitatory prayer at matins
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a musical setting of this
Etymology
Origin of Venite
1175–1225; Middle English < Latin: come ye; so called from the first word of Vulgate text
Example Sentences
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Anthem or Chant, which may be the Venite or Te Deum.
From Time Magazine Archive
The blueprints on the office-wall, The graphs and the statistical Tables of averages, all Praised him mightily: , "Venite Exultemus."
From Time Magazine Archive
In there, it was still; those windows gleamed so brightly; and, after the sound of the bell, there came so softly a woman's voice: "Venite adoremus…."
From The Path of Life by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander
Over his door he placed the following inscription, borrowed from Scripture: "Venite ad me omnes qui stomacho laboratis, et ego restaurabo vos."
From Paris as It Was and as It Is by Blagdon, Francis W.
The sombre-robed monks were in the choir, the organ rolling out its deep notes in accompaniment to the plain song of the Venite exultemus, which then, as now, preceded the psalms for the day.
From The House of Walderne A Tale of the Cloister and the Forest in the Days of the Barons' Wars by Crake, A. D. (Augustine David)
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