11) vigil. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...eve of a feast, a day of penitential preparation. In ancient times worshipers gathered for vespers before a great feast and then waited outside the church until dawn...
12) Magnif'icat. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...wrong time, or out of place. The Magnificat does not belong to the morning service, but to vespers. The Magnificat is Luke i. 46-55 in Latin. 1...
13) Ringing Island. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...off from the world. It is a ringing island because bells are incessantly ringing: at matin and vespers, at mass and at sermon-time, at noon, vigils, eves, and so...
14) Canon'ical Hours. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...In the Roman Catholic Church they are seven-viz. matins, prime, tierce, sext, nones, vespers, and compline. Prime, tierce, sext, and nones are the first, third, sixth,...
15) evensong. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth
Edition. 2000.
...Also called Evening Prayer. 2. Roman Catholic Church A service that includes the office of Vespers. No longer in ecclesiastical use. 3. A song sung in the evening....
16) 126. Evening. Mawson, C.O. Sylvester. 1922. Roget s International Thesaurus
of English Words and Phrases
...of day, close of day; candlelight, candle-lighting; eventide, evensong [eccl. or archaic], vespers [eccl.], nighttide [archaic], nightfall, curfew, dusk, twilight,...
17) canonical hours. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language:
Fourth Edition. 2000.
...prayers to be said. These times are matins with lauds, prime, tierce, sext, nones, vespers, and complin. 2. The prayers said at these times....
18) Salve Regina. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...said, usually in the vernacular, after Low Mass and also, during part of the year, at vespers (in Latin) as an antiphon. It begins, "Hail, holy queen, mother of mercy."...
19) collect. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Roman Catholic Church the collect is said, typically, at Mass just before the epistle and at vespers. It occurs correspondingly in the Anglican and Lutheran liturgies....
20) Charles II, king of Naples. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...count of Anjou and Provence, son and successor of Charles I. In the war of the Sicilian Vespers between Charles I and Peter III of Aragon for possession of Sicily,...
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