Black Mass

or black mass

noun

1. a blasphemous ceremony mocking the Christian Mass, especially one by an alleged worshiper of Satan.
2. a Requiem Mass.

black mass

noun

1. sometimes capitals a blasphemous travesty of the Christian Mass, performed by practitioners of black magic

Word History and Origins

Origin of Black Mass¹

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

His more polemical books, such as Black Mass and Straw Dogs, often posit a worldview bleak enough to make Beckett blanch.

From The Daily Beast

One could make out but little of detail; but he could note that a black mass was piling itself up beyond the second fence.

From Project Gutenberg

There was enough star-gleam to show the black mass of stone, like a crouching monster gathering to spring upon him.

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Tonight was Black Mass, and his attendance there was definitely required.

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After what he had been through, the Black Mass was necessarily an anticlimax.

From Project Gutenberg

The result, seen in the dark, was a formless black mass, very doughy and fatty; but with oases of palatable matter.

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