Definition of Missae

1. missa [n] - See also: missa

Lexicographical Neighbors of Missae

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
missable
missae (current term)
missaid
missal
missalette
missalettes
missals
missaw
missay
missaying
missays
misscanned
misseat
misseated
misseating
misseats

Literary usage of Missae

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

1. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities by William Smith, Samuel Cheetham (1880)
"Portions of the daily offices were also called missae, probably because at the end of each a monk, might, on sufficient cause, obtain leave to withdraw. (1. ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The name most commonly given to these "Pyes" on the Continent was "Ordinarius", more rarely " Directorium missae ' '. For example, the title of such a book ..."

3. Tracts on the Mass by John Wickham Legg (1904)
"... Ordo missae seems to have been first published in the year 1502. The opinion that it was first brought out in the pontifical of 1485 ..."

4. General History of the Christian Religion and Church by August Neander, Joseph Torrey (1851)
"Among these we may place even the word of a pope, that of Innocent the Third, who, in his work De Mysteriis missae, entered minutely into the examination of ..."

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