Versicles

But, too, it was inevitable that the race succumb again to the old maladies on new worlds, even as on Earth before, in the litany of life and in the special liturgy of Man: Versicles by Adam.,

A Canticle for Leibowitz Miller, Walter M. 1959

People pursue or Ordination of in Holy different lines INTERJECTIONAL Priests Communion interrupting form Preces before Versicles one another Collects before

The Prayer Book Explained Percival Jackson

Four other Versicles and Gloria Patri are interposed after the Lord's Prayer -- all in the form of Verse and Respond.

The Prayer Book Explained Percival Jackson

And this order may be found also after the Versicles of Mattins and

The Prayer Book Explained Percival Jackson

Mozarabic Liturgy (q.v.), on the contrary, Matins are made up of a system of Antiphons, Collects, and Versicles which make them quite a departure from the Roman system.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

The Versicles belong to the psalmody, like responsories and antiphons; usually they are taken from a psalm, and belong to the category of liturgical acclamations or shouts of joy.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

Versicles after the Creed, has never been equalled for beauty.

Old St. Paul's Cathedral William Benham 1870

Versicles used to have a grand full musical sound peculiar to that

Old Times at Otterbourne Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

Then follow the Versicles, the Collects, the Thanksgiving, and the

Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

Anthemes, Versicles, repitions, and other thinges, either songe or redde by nyghte or by daye, to the beautifieng, and praysing of God: did Gregory,

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. Richard Hakluyt 1584