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A prayer book
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A book containing the prayers and responses needed when celebrating the Roman Catholic Mass throughout the year
Examples of missals in a Sentence
It contains nearly io,000 MSS., including many magnificent illuminated missals and Bibles and a number of valuable Greek and Latin texts, 242 incunabula and 11,000 printed books, chiefly dealing with palaeography; it is in some ways the most important of the Florentine libraries.
In older missals they were extremely numerous, almost every Sunday and Holy-day having one assigned to it.
This conviction made young men leave their loves and pleasures, grave men quit their counting-houses, churchmen desert their missals, to crowd the lecture-rooms of philologers and rhetoricians.
In 1548 the first Book of Common Prayer was issued replacing the old Latin missals and service books.
On the 26th of January the grand-duke issued a circular letter to the Tuscan bishops suggesting certain reforms, especially in the matter of the restoration of the authority of diocesan synods, the purging of the missals and breviaries of legends, the assertion of episcopal as against papal authority, the curtailing of the privileges of the monastic orders, and the better education of the clergy.
He also completed a whole corpus of lectionaries, missals, gospels, &c.