Mass celebrated for the repose of the soul or souls of one or more deceased persons.
1I am going to Kamenskaya's to attend a mass for the dead.
2Here, in the deep shade, a solemn mass for the dead was chanted.
3There had been no mass for the dead in the chapel and no procession.
4The following day had been appointed for the mass for the dead in St. Sebald's Church.
5There the mass for the dead was chanted, the responses being sung by a choir of silvery boyish voices.
6But there are some who say one mass for the dead, and another of the day, if need be.
7Hear the mass for the dead, and bend a penitent knee to Tomas so he might hear the priest's advice.
8Had a choir been present, as the composer intended, they would have been singing the Latin mass for the dead.
9REQUIEM, n. A mass for the dead which the minor poets assure us the winds sing o'er the graves of their favorites.
10The body of Jacques Colis had been removed to a side chapel, where, covered with a pall, it awaited the mass for the dead.
11The Romish mass for the dead begins with "Requiem eternam" (eternal rest), whence Requiem denominating the mass itself, and any other funeral music.
12With the cessation of saying masses for the dead its religious character expired.
13It began with Igor Stravinsky's solemn requiem from the Mass for the Dead.
14Masses for the dead were ordered there, in uninterrupted succession, by these poor peasants.
15Now prayers and Masses for the dead are to be found in every ancient liturgy of the Church.
16Of the Mass for the Dead.
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