Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A brief responsive prayer used as the first item in the Ordinary of the Roman Catholic Mass or in any of various other Christian liturgies, traditionally beginning with the Greek words Kyrie eleison (“Lord, have mercy”).
- noun A musical setting of this prayer.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The Kyrie eleϊson, especially in its western form (with Christe eleϊson), and the repetitions collectively, as used at the beginning of the Roman mass or as at the beginning of the Anglican conimunion office.
- noun The musical setting of these words.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
Kyrie eleison .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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There being no Introit, when the Kyrie is done, the priest intones the Gloria in excelsis, which is then sung with the same rite as on Holy Thursday; all the bells of the Church are rung for the beginning of the celebration of Easter.
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Kyrie, which was as I left it, save that the word Kyrie was written over it in the strange handwriting.
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They’re called “Kyrie” in Heroscape, but they’ve got wings, so I call them angels anyways, even with all the Christian baggage—another win, I think, because the term Kyrie gets rid of religious weirdness with Unfortunate Implications.
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They’re called “Kyrie” in Heroscape, but they’ve got wings, so I call them angels anyways, even with all the Christian baggage—another win, I think, because the term Kyrie gets rid of religious weirdness with Unfortunate Implications.
Overview of People of Color in Heroscape | Spontaneous ∂erivation 2009
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We sang the 9-fold Kyrie, which is particularly appropriate in Lent, and the Memorial Acclamation and Amen were simple and beautiful.
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Ok, here we go: Giovanni Gabrieli's Sacrae Symphoniae, namely the Kyrie, from 1597.
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The West Pier movement started life as a Kyrie, which is the first part of a choral mass - I'd planned to put it forward for a choir I sang in but was too shy to let people know I'd written something, so never did.
Archive 2004-12-01 Jonathan 2004
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The West Pier movement started life as a Kyrie, which is the first part of a choral mass - I'd planned to put it forward for a choir I sang in but was too shy to let people know I'd written something, so never did.
Music Jonathan 2004
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Girolamo illuminated at Candiana a sheet with a Kyrie, which is an exquisite work, and for the same monks the first leaf of a psalter for the choir; with many things for S. Maria in Organo and for the Friars of
Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 06 (of 10) Fra Giocondo to Niccolo Soggi Giorgio Vasari 1542
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We sang the 9-fold Kyrie, which is particularly appropriate in Lent, and the Memorial Acclamation and Amen were simple and beautiful.
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