(a) Liturg. An introduction to the canon of the Mass; the proper preface for a given occasion [1st quot.]; (b) an invocation of God used in the coronation rite. …

(a) Liturg. An introduction to the canon of the Mass; (b) the act of introducing, prefacing. …

(a) Prose, prose writing; prose enditing, composing in prose; (b) a piece written in prose; a prose segment of a larger work; (c) composing prose; (d) a story; narration, statement; (e) ?as adj……

(a) A metrical line; also, a line of poetry; also, one of the two lines of a couplet; verses of the deth, a work written by Helinand; in two verses, in couplets [quot. a1400 Cato(3)]; the golden……

Liturg. (a) A short Biblical verse, usu. taken from the Psalms, said or sung antiphonally as part of divine service (b) sibilines versicles, the Sibylline Oracles, a collection of second-century……

(a) The evening or afternoon preceding a prescribed holy day, marked by vigils or other devotional exercises, esp. fasting; also used of a non-Christian observance [quot. a1425] (b) the evening or……