1) vespers. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...vespers, (ves´prz) (KEY) [Lat.,=evening], in the Christian Church, principal evening office. In the Roman rite, vespers have consisted since the 6th cent. of a few...
2) Sicilian Vespers. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Sicilian Vespers, in Italian history, name given the rebellion staged by the Sicilians against the Angevin French domination of Sicily; the rebellion broke out at...
3) vespers. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth
Edition. 2000.
...3. Roman Catholic Church A service held on Sundays or holy days that includes the office of vespers. Obsolete French vespres, from Old French, from Medieval Latin...
4) Vespers, Sicilian. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Vespers, Sicilian, see Sicilian Vespers....
5) Sicil'ian Vespers. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...The massacre of the French in Sicily, which began at the hour of vespers on Easter Monday in 1282. 1...
6) The Queen's Vespers by Aubrey Thomas De Vere. Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed.
1895. A Victorian Anthology, 1837-1895
...And sunset touch d the trees. From the gold border gleam d like snow 5 Her foot: a crown enrich d her brow: Dark gems confin d that crimson vest Close-moulded on...
7) vesperal. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth
Edition. 2000.
...1. Ecclesiastical A book containing the words and hymns to be used at vespers. 2. A covering used to protect an altar cloth between services. Of or relating to vesper...
8) 45754. Rabelais, Francois. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER:45754 QUOTATION:Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said. ATTRIBUTION:Francois Rabelais (1494-1553), French author, evangelist....
9) LXVI. Cellini, Benvenuto. 1909-14. Autobiography. The Harvard Classics
...IT happened one day, close on the hours of vespers, that I had to go at an unusual time for me from my house to my workshop; for I ought to say that the latter was...
10) vesper. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth
Edition. 2000.
...1. A bell that summons worshipers to vespers. 2. Vesper The evening star, especially Venus. 3. Archaic Evening. Middle English, evening star, from Latin, evening....
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