missa
Americannoun
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If an outlier composer wrote an original tenor, the Mass was somewhat dismissively deemed a "missa sine nomine," a Mass without a name.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2015
He pronounces other two prayers or thanksgivings, blesses the people, and dismisses them with the formula, “Ite, missa est,” “Go, the mass is over.”
From Roman Catholicism in Spain by Anonymous
Each day is a festival unto them, who diligently heed the claustral proverb, De missa ad mensam.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 by Peter Anthony Motteux
Upon being answered in the negative, he betook himself again to his prayers, and, after a short interval, was once more absorbed in celestial extasies, and heard a loud voice from heaven saying—Ite, missa est.
From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
Golly, de big cheque missa did draw out dat berry day!
From The Guerilla Chief And other Tales by Mayne Reid
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