invitatoryadj.n.
/ɪnˈvʌɪtətəri/ A. adj.
a. That invites or tends to invite; containing or conveying an invitation.
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the mind > will > motivation > attraction, allurement, or enticement > [adjective]
tolling?c1225
ticinga1400
allectivec1487
illecebrous1531
alluring1534
tracting1535
wooing1549
enticing1553
training1557
tittling1560
luring1570
adamantine1581
baiting1585
winning1596
attractive1600
adamantic1605
adamantive1605
enticeable1607
soliciting1608
magnetic1611
invitinga1616
allurant1631
inescating1633
invitative1634
magnetical1638
invitatory1646
tractive1658
odalisque1837
Pied Piper1869
lureful1887
follow-me1888
luresome1889
come-hitherish1901
come-hither1905
come-hithery1919
invitational1922
come-hithering1935
the mind > language > speech > request > [adjective] > inviting
inviting1609
invitative1634
invitatory1646
invitational1922
1646 R. Baillie Let. 3 Apr. (1841) II. 363 A cold slight invitatorie letter.
1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 304 Hippocrates to whom the great Artaxerxes wrote an invitatory Letter.
1761 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) XII. 122 I wish you would give us two or three invitatory hymns.
1831 C. Lamb Newspapers 35 Years Ago in Elia 2nd Ser. Other female whims followed, but none..so invitatory of shrewd conceits.
1834 New Monthly Mag. 41 456 The portal of a tavern..bore this invitatory inscription.
b. invitatory psalm n. Ecclesiastical the Venite, Psalm xcv (Vulgate xciv).
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society > faith > worship > church music > psalm > kinds of psalm > invitatory (95th) > [noun]
Venite?c1225
invitatory psalma1340
invitory1483
society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > religious or devotional > [noun] > psalm > specific psalm
miserere?c1225
Venite?c1225
invitatory psalma1340
canticle or song of grees1382
invitory1483
cantatea1563
jubilate1706
a1340 R. Rolle Psalter xciv. 1 Louynge fallis till deuocioun, sange til goed chere & delite, alswa it is cald inuytatory.
1657 A. Sparrow Rationale Bk. Common 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.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) (at cited word) Invitatory Verse, i.e. a Verse in the Roman Church-Service that stirs up to praise and glorifie God.
1760-5 [see sense B. 2]. B. n.
1. [= medieval Latin invītātōrium.] An invitation.
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the mind > language > speech > request > [noun] > invitation
inviting1586
invitement1601
invitation1611
re-invitation1622
invite1659
invitatory1666
the mind > will > motivation > attraction, allurement, or enticement > [noun] > one who or that which > that which
lurec1385
baitc1400
traina1425
allective1445
allurement1548
lodestone?1577
attractive1581
invites1615
magnetic1645
magnet1655
invitatory1666
track1672
glittering prize1713
catch1781
the rainbow's end1846
carrot1895
come-on1902
1666 R. Leighton Wks. (1874) 728 How needful is that invitatory to be often rung in our ears.
1892 Sat. 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 n. in the Anglican Communion Office.
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society > faith > worship > parts of service > invitation > [noun]
invitatory1483
invitory1483
invitatorium1853
invitation1883
society > faith > worship > parts of service > introit > [noun]
officec1300
introit1483
invitatory1483
society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > religious or devotional > [noun] > antiphon > specific antiphon
salve1428
invitatory1483
reproaches1839
improperiums1880
1483 Festivall (1515) 63 b As he was aboute to saye our ladyes matyns, and as he was at the Invytatorye (yt is Ave Maria).
1530 Myroure Oure Ladye (Fawkes) (1873) ii. 220 On Thursday at mattyns, the Inuytatory, Ave maria.
1549 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16267) Mattyns f. i Then shalbe saied or song without any Inuitatori this Psalme, Venite exultemus. &c. in Englishe.
1641 R. Baillie Parallel Compar. Liturgie with Masse-bk. ii. 10 All the Missals I have seen..have never venite for the introitus, only in the Breviarie, it is the invitatorie for the Matins.
1659 H. L'Estrange Alliance Divine Offices 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.
1662 Bk. Common 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.
1760–5 R. Burn 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.
1866 J. Purchas & F. G. Lee Directorium Anglicanum (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.
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