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noun

Mass n.

(R. C. Ch.) The sacrifice in the sacrament of the Eucharist, or the consecration and oblation of the host.

(Mus.) The portions of the Mass usually set to music, considered as a musical composition; namely, the Kyrie, the Gloria, the Credo, the Sanctus, and the Agnus Dei, besides sometimes an Offertory and the Benedictus.

Canon of the Mass. See Canon.

High Mass, Mass with incense, music, the assistance of a deacon, subdeacon, etc.

Low Mass, Mass which is said by the priest throughout, without music.

Mass bell, the sanctus bell. See Sanctus.

Mass book, the missal or Roman Catholic service book.

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Etymology of 'Low Mass'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... saw before us a complicated situation at the prevailing stage of water, and immediately landed on the left, where there was footing to reconnoitre. A considerable fall was divided by a rocky island, a low mass that would be submerged with two or three feet more water, and the river plunging down on each side boiled against the cliffs. Between us and the island the stream was studded by immense boulders which had dropped from the cliffs and almost like pinnacles stood above the surface. One ...

— A Canyon Voyage • Frederick S. Dellenbaugh

... and Trinity, Hugh had been abroad with the poor king, and had been the only bishop who insisted upon keeping his festivals with full sung Mass and not a hasty, low Mass. ...

— Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln - A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England • Charles L. Marson

... now in life, as the vulgar-natured would have supposed had they known her history; neither was it because, most frequent accusation of the ignorant, it appealed to the sensuous side of her. For ritual she cared as little as the Parson, and by preference she always went to low Mass instead of to a high Mass. She had found something that for her had been hitherto hidden, and Boase saw it and was glad. It was noteworthy that it was to him and not to Ishmael she spoke of it. Georgie, with all her dearness, was almost too prosperous to understand. ...

— Secret Bread • F. Tennyson Jesse