invitatory
Americanadjective
adjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of invitatory
1300–50; Middle English < Late Latin invītātōrius, equivalent to invitā ( re ) to invite + -tōrius -tory 1
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The invitatory is omitted, they tell us, that we, like the Magi, may come to Christ, without other than a silent invitation.
From The Divine Office by Edward J. Quigley
About midnight a more solemn Office began, this time with the invitatory and psalm Venite.
From The Divine Office by Edward J. Quigley
The hymn is an answer to the invitation given to us in the invitatory, to praise God and to rejoice with Him.
From The Divine Office by Edward J. Quigley
In this latter case, even though the body is not present—for some special reason, such as contagious disease—the invitatory is not to be omitted.
From The Divine Office by Edward J. Quigley
We appeal to each of these post-Elizabethans with the invitatory line of one of them: ‘Charm me asleep with thy delicious numbers!’
From Thomas Stanley: His Original Lyrics, Complete, In Their Collated Readings of 1647, 1651, 1657. With an Introduction, Textual Notes, A List of Editions, An Appendis of Translation, and a Portrait. by Thomas Stanley
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