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
From the missio, missa, or dismissal announced by the deacon to the people before and after the mass of the faithful, the term missa or mass is derived.
From The Ceremonies of the Holy-Week at Rome by Baggs, Charles Michael
Gustato pomo missus transit sine morte Heu missa sorte labitur omnis homo.
From The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein by Douce, Francis
Licetne recitare supra sponsos preces seu orationes in missali positas post orationem Dominicam et Ite missa est?
From The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, June 1865 by Various
Having read the final prayers, he turned and said: 'Ite, missa est.'
From Abbe Mouret's Transgression by Zola, Émile
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