Kyrien.
/ˈkɪrɪeɪ/, /ˈkɪərɪeɪ/, U.S. /ˈkɪriˌeɪ/ 1.
a. = Kyrie eleison n. 1.
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society > faith > worship > parts of service > Kyrie > [noun]
Kyrie1657
Kyrie eleison1834
1657 A. Sparrow Rationale Bk. Common Prayer (1664) 241 Then follow the Commandments, with a Kyrie, or Lord have mercy upon us, after every one of them.
1866 J. H. Blunt Annot. Bk. Common Prayer 167 The Kyrie thus said appears to represent the ancient Litany element of the Eucharistic Office.
b. esp. A musical setting of the Kyrie eleison in the Ordinary of the Mass, or of the Response to each of the Commandments in the Anglican Communion Service.
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1519 in W. L. Nash Churchwardens' Acct. Bk. St. Giles, Reading (1890) 6 A Pryk-song boke..wherin is conteyned iiii masses, iij kyries, iij allohuies and ij exultands.
1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 153 I remember a peece of composition of four parts of maister Tauernor in one of his kiries.
16.. MS Music Bk. Durham Cathedral Mr. Brimley his kerrie to Mr. Sheperd's Creede.
1845 E. Holmes Life Mozart 41 His first essay in Church Music,—the Kyrie of a mass for four voices and four stringed instruments.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > [noun] > scolding > instance of
Kyrie15..
Kyrie eleison1528
chide1538
wormwood lecture1640
rant1663
scold1726
trimming1763
blowing up1772
set-to1774
set-down1780
ragging1788
scouting1794
hurl?a1800
hearing1816
heckling1832
twisting1834
downsetting1842
going-over1843
shrewing1847
call1862
tongue-lashing1881
tongue-walking1888
telling-off1893
rousting1900
lumps1935
fourpenny one1936
rucking1958
15.. Jack Jugler in Grosart Two Enterludes (1873) 63 He shoulde haue suche a kyrie, ere he went to bed, As he neuer had before in all his lyfe.
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 4 This kyrye sad solfing, thee northen bluster aproching Thee sayls tears tag rag, to the sky thee waues vphoysing.
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