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单词 black mass
释义 black mass
[mass n.1]
A mass for the dead, at which the vestments and drapings are black. Also, a travesty of the mass, used in the cult of Satanism.
1893Nation 2 Feb. 84/3 He resorted to a sort of benevolent parody of the Christian sacrifice—a sort of White Mass, as one might call it, in contradistinction to the Black Mass of the Kabalists.1896A. E. Waite Devil-worship in France 4 To say..that Black Masses are celebrated..will not enhance the credibility or establish the intelligence of the speaker.1904Rolfe Hadrian the Seventh (1929) 61 My first Mass must be a black mass, Excellency.1961A. Christie Pale Horse v. 64 She's very occult... Goes in for spiritualism and trances, and magic. Not quite black masses, but that sort of thing.
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