missal

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Wherever I was in Korea, my missal was always with me.

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  1. noun Roman Catholic Church A book containing all the prayers and responses necessary for celebrating the Mass throughout the year.
  2. noun A prayer book.

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  • Somebody had slipped the piece of paper into the missal, after choosing the page. —  Maigret Goes Home - Georges Simenon - 13
  • They attended solemn mass in honor of that Saint, and the places in the missal were found for them by a young student of the college, named Grant, who afterwards became Bishop of Southwark. —  The Grand Old Man
  • A daily hand-missal has been re-published and there have been old rite Confirmations. —  The hermeneutic of continuity
  • Her love imprinted itself on my heart in a new way when I saw on the night table beside me all my Catholic paraphernalia which she had brought from home: my missal, my rosary, my prayer cards etc. —  Latest Articles
  • Wherever I was in Korea, my missal was always with me. —  Kansas City Kansan Homepage RSS
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  1. Middle English messel, from Old French, from Medieval Latin missāle, from neuter of missālis, of the Mass, from Late Latin missa, Mass; see Mass.

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  1. I. a. = Old French missal, from Middle Latin missalis, of the mass, from missa, the mass: see mass. II. n. = French missel = Spanish misal = Portuguese missal = lt. messale, from Middle Latin missale, a mass-book, neuter of missalis, of the mass: see I.
 

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