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‖ Tenebræ R.C. Ch.|ˈtɛnɪbriː, -breɪ|
See also tenebres.
[L. tenebræ darkness; in med.L. in the eccles. sense: see Du Cange.]
The name given to the office of matins and lauds of the following day, usually sung in the afternoon or evening of Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday in Holy Week, at which the candles lighted at the beginning of the service are extinguished one by one after each psalm, in memory of the darkness at the time of the crucifixion. Also attrib.
1651in Morris Troubles Cath. Foref. i. vi. (1872) 304 We were forced to read our Office and even the Tenebræ Matins in the work chamber. 1656Blount Glossogr. s.v., The service or mattins used in the Roman Church..cal'd tenebræ (thence tenebræ wednesday, thursday, &c.). 1708Ozell Boileau's Lutrin iv. (1730) 192 Others more sad and phlegmatick than he Guess'd it the Toning of the Tenebrae. 1753Challoner Cath. Chr. Instr. 219 Called the Tenebræ Office. 1864J. H. Newman Apol. i. (1904) 21/1 We attended the Tenebræ, at the Sestine, for the sake of the Miserere. |