n.
the Christian Eucharist or Holy Communion, especially in the Roman Catholic Church.
▸a musical setting of parts of the liturgy used in the Mass.
Etymology
OE mæsse, from eccles. L. missa, from L. miss-, mittere ‘dismiss’, perh. from the last words of the service, Ite, missa est ‘Go, it is the dismissal’.
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