| 释义 |
‖ Venite|vɪˈnaɪtiː|
[L.: 2nd pers. pl. imp. of venīre to come.]
The ninety-fifth psalm (the ninety-fourth in the Vulgate, beginning Venite, exultemus Domino) used as a canticle at matins or morning prayer; the invitatory psalm; also, a musical setting of this.
a1225Ancr. R. 18 Þus doð et euerich Gloria Patri, & et te beginnunge of þe Venite. c1450in Aungier Syon (1840) 364 The two sustres that be tabled to synge the versicles schal synge the Venite and the first verse at matens. 1657Sparrow Bk. Com. Prayer 32 The Venite. O come let us sing unto the Lord. This is an Invitatory Psalm. 1713Gibson Codex Juris Eccl. Angl. 299 Invitatories, Some Text of Scripture, adapted and chosen for the Occasion of the Day, and used before the Venite. 1853Rock Ch. of Fathers III. ii. xii. 213 On high feast days, the ‘Venite’ used to be sung with great solemnity, by the rulers of the choir. 1877J. D. Chambers Div. Worship 134 The mode of singing the ‘Venite’, with an Invitatory superadded. 1899A. C. Benson Life Abp. Benson I. xv. 589 He had himself ushered to his place by the verger before the Venite.
†b. Venite book, a book containing a musical setting of the ‘Venite’; a venitary. Obs.
1434Invent. St. Mary's, Scarborough in Archaeologia LI. 66 Et unum librum vocatum Venite boke. 1537in Glassock Rec. St. Michaels 127 Item iij pryntid masbooke and a venyte booke. 1559Dunmow Churchw. MS. 43 b, A booke of parchment conteyninge in yt a Venite booke, an ymnall, and a boke for diriges and berialls. |