英语词汇“white mass”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

white mass n. (a) a religious or mystical ceremony which is considered benign (sometimes opposed to black mass n. 1); (b) (chiefly Roman Catholic Church) a religious service or assembly of a congregation held in the absence of a priest; (also occasionally) the first mass celebrated by a newly ordained priest. [With sense (a), compare French messe blanche benign parody of a mass (1823 or earlier in this sense; rare).

In sense ‘religious service held in the absence of a priest’, after French messe blanche (1905 or earlier in this sense), probably a specific semantic development of messe blanche dry mass (1812 or earlier in this sense: see dry mass n. at dry adj. and adv. Compounds 3).]

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society > faith > worship > sacrament > communion > mass > kinds of mass > [noun] > first of young priest

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1893 Nation 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.

1895 Atlantic Monthly Mar. 333 His white mass,—the first mass of a young priest.

1918 Amer. Catholic Q. Rev. Oct. 666 Here when a priest dare not show himself the congregation assembled and had a ‘White Mass’ (une Messe Blanche).

1998 New Yorker 10 Aug. 68/2 ‘Parsifal’ is a White Mass, a ceremony of purification.

2002 V. Rosier Liturg. Catechesis of Sunday Celebrations in Absence of Priest ii. 94 In..the second half of the twentieth century, the format for worship consisted of readings from scripture, song and prayer, and was sometimes called a ‘messe blanche’ or a ‘white mass’.

单词	white mass
释义	> as lemmas white mass white mass n. (a) a religious or mystical ceremony which is considered benign (sometimes opposed to black mass n. 1); (b) (chiefly Roman Catholic Church) a religious service or assembly of a congregation held in the absence of a priest; (also occasionally) the first mass celebrated by a newly ordained priest. [With sense (a), compare French messe blanche benign parody of a mass (1823 or earlier in this sense; rare). In sense ‘religious service held in the absence of a priest’, after French messe blanche (1905 or earlier in this sense), probably a specific semantic development of messe blanche dry mass (1812 or earlier in this sense: see dry mass n. at dry adj. and adv. Compounds 3).] ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrament > communion > mass > kinds of mass > [noun] > first of young priest white mass1893 1893 Nation 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. 1895 Atlantic Monthly Mar. 333 His white mass,—the first mass of a young priest. 1918 Amer. Catholic Q. Rev. Oct. 666 Here when a priest dare not show himself the congregation assembled and had a ‘White Mass’ (une Messe Blanche). 1998 New Yorker 10 Aug. 68/2 ‘Parsifal’ is a White Mass, a ceremony of purification. 2002 V. Rosier Liturg. Catechesis of Sunday Celebrations in Absence of Priest ii. 94 In..the second half of the twentieth century, the format for worship consisted of readings from scripture, song and prayer, and was sometimes called a ‘messe blanche’ or a ‘white mass’. extracted from whiteadj.adv.n. < as lemmas
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