Definition of Missa

1. n. The service or sacrifice of the Mass.

Definition of Missa

1. Noun. (music) a mass, in the sense of a composition setting several sung parts of the liturgic service (most often chosen from the ordinary parts Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Agnus Dei and/or Sanctus) to music, notably when the text in Latin is used (as long universally prescribed by Rome) ¹

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Definition of Missa

1. the Mass [n MISSAE]

Medical Definition of Missa

1. Origin: LL. See 1st Mass. The service or sacrifice of the Mass. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Missa

misroutes
misrouting
misrule
misruled
misrules
misruling
misruly
miss
miss a beat
miss a trick
miss fire
miss out
miss the boat
miss the mark
miss the point
missa (current term)
missable
missae
missaid
missal
missalette
missalettes
missals
missaw
missay
missaying
missays
misscanned
misseat
misseated

Literary usage of Missa

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Historic Note-book: With an Appendix of Battles by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1891)
"missa Cardinalis. Mass celebrated by a cardinal. missa ... missa Die'i. The mass celebrated after the usual early mass, 'orto jam die.' missa Familia'ris. ..."

2. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities: Comprising the History, Institutions by William Smith, Samuel Cheetham (1880)
"missa Private is used in two senses. It either means (1) " A mass celebrated ... missa Publica is a celebration at which all may be present and communicate. ..."

3. General History of the Christian Religion and Church by August Neander, Alexander James William Morrison (1851)
"The term missa, in the Latinity of this period, is a substantive, and synonymous ... The dismission of any assembly was called missa. Avitus of Vienna, ep. ..."

4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"It also existed as a verb: "to mass" was to say mass; "massing-priest" was a common term of abuse at the Reformation. sacrifice the dismissal is [missa ..."

5. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities: Being a Continuation of the by Samuel Cheetham (1880)
"The explanation appears to be that, the more ignorant, hearing ot the missa, imagined that it meant, not the dismiss»! ot' the non-communicating classes, ..."

6. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"Etymol- and for this reason is it called missa, ogy and because those who are not ... He clearly understands missa as equivalent to missio with the meaning ..."

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