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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The blueprints on the office-wall, The graphs and the statistical Tables of averages, all Praised him mightily: , "Venite Exultemus."
From Time Magazine Archive
Anthem or Chant, which may be the Venite or Te Deum.
From Time Magazine Archive
In there, it was still; those windows gleamed so brightly; and, after the sound of the bell, there came so softly a woman's voice: "Venite adoremus…."
From The Path of Life by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
Venite Adoremus Swells aloud in stronger strain, And the angels swing the censers, And they prostrate bend again.
From Poems: Patriotic, Religious by Abram Joseph Ryan
The closing portion of the Venite has a special appropriateness to Lent; the closing portion of the Benedictus a special appropriateness to Advent.
From A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer by William Reed Huntington
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