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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In the Rom. Cath. liturgy, the last two stanzas of the hymn of Aquinas, beginning “Pange lingua gloriosi corporis mysterium,” which are sung when the eucharist is carried in procession and in the office of benediction.
  • noun A musical setting of these stanzas.

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