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invitatory, a. and n.|ɪnˈvaɪtətərɪ|
[ad. L. invītātōrius inviting, f. invītāre to invite. Cf. F. invitatoire.]
A. adj. That invites or tends to invite; containing or conveying an invitation.
1646R. Baillie Lett. & Jrnls. (1841) II. 363 A cold slight invitatorie letter. 1665Sir T. Herbert Trav. (1677) 304 Hippocrates to whom the great Artaxerxes wrote an invitatory Letter. 1761Wesley Wks. (1872) XII. 122, I wish you would give us two or three invitatory hymns. 1831Lamb Elia Ser. ii. Newsp. 35 Years ago, Other female whims followed, but none..so invitatory of shrewd conceits. 1834New Monthly Mag. XLI. 456 The portal of a tavern..bore this invitatory inscription.
b. Eccl. invitatory psalm: the Venite, Psalm xcv (Vulg. xciv).
a1340Hampole Psalter xciv. 1 Louynge fallis till deuocioun, sange til goed chere & delite, alswa it is cald inuytatory. 1657Sparrow Bk. Com. Prayer (1664) 32 This is an Invitatory psalm; for herein we do mutually invite and call upon one another being come before His presence, to sing to the Lord. 1706Phillips s.v., Invitatory Verse, i.e. a Verse in the Roman Church-Service that stirs up to praise and glorifie God. 1760–5[see B. 2].
B. n.
1. [= med.L. invītātōrium.] An invitation.
1666Leighton Charge to Clergy Wks. (1868) 340 How needful is that invitatory to be often rung in our ears. 1892Sat. Rev. 30 July 139/1 ‘Apply Principal’ is the grammatical invitatory of most of these advertising worthies.
2. A form of invitation used in religious worship.
spec. a. The invitatory psalm or Venite. b. An antiphon sung at matins before the Venite. In the Anglican Church, the versicle ‘Praise ye the Lord’, with its response ‘The Lord's name be praised’. c. Any text of Scripture chosen for the day, and used before the Venite. d. ‘An antiphon used in the course of the singing of the Psalms, and repeated several times in the course of a Psalm, as well as at the beginning and the end’ (Prayer Book Comment. Gloss.). e. An early name of the Roman introit. f. Sometimes, the invitation in the Anglican Communion Office.
1450–1530Myrr. our Ladye 220 On Thursday at mattyns, the Inuytatory Ave maria. 1483Festivall (W. de W. 1515) 63 b, As he was aboute to saye our ladyes matyns, and as he was at the Invytatorye (yt is Ave Maria). 1548–9(Mar.) Bk. Com. Prayer, Morning P. (Rubric), Then shalbe saied or song without any Inuitatori this Psalme, Venite exultemus, etc. in Englishe. 1641R. Baillie Parallel Liturgy w. Mass-Bk. 10 All the Missals I have seen..have never venite for the introitus, only in the Breviarie, it is the invitatorie for the Matins. 1659H. L'Estrange Alliance Div. Off. 112 With the same congruity is ‘praise ye the Lord’ assigned as an impressive invitatory to a following hymn calling upon the people to join not only mentally but vocally. 1662Bk. Com. Prayer Pref., For this cause be cut off Anthems, Responds, Invitatories, and such like things as did break the continual course of the reading of the Scripture. 1760–5Burn Eccl. Law (1797) II. 347 Invitatory was a text of Scripture, adapted and chosen for the occasion of the day, and used before the Venite; which also itself was called the invitatory psalm. 1866Direct. Angl. (ed. 3) 355 Our V. ‘Praise ye the Lord’ with the R. is our present unvarying Invitatory. In the Communion Service the second Exhortation is the Invitatory. |