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
There was an understanding that if I blew for him this afternoon—old Brewer being laid up with the shingles—he would take me through that tenor part in the new Venite Exultemus.
From Brother Copas by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
Even the Episcopal service had been so adapted to Indian conditions that instead of the sound of the expected chants one heard the Te Deum and the Venite set to the strains of Telugu lyrics.
From Lighted to Lighten: the Hope of India by Doren, Alice B. Van
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.
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