Word Meanings - MASS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The sacrifice in the sacrament of the Eucharist, or the consecration and oblation of the host. (more info) mittere, missum, to send, dismiss: cf. F. messe. In the ancient churches, the public services at which the catechumens were permitted to

Additional info about word: MASS

The sacrifice in the sacrament of the Eucharist, or the consecration and oblation of the host. (more info) mittere, missum, to send, dismiss: cf. F. messe. In the ancient churches, the public services at which the catechumens were permitted to be present were called missa catechumenorum, ending with the reading of the Gospel. Then they were dismissed with these words : "Ite, missa est" , the congregation is dismissed. After that the sacrifice proper began. At its close the same words were said to those who remained. So the word gave the name of Mass to the sacrifice in the Catholic Church. See Missile, and cf. Christmas,

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MASS)

• Accumulate
• Collect
• gamer
• grow
• mass
• heap
• store
• bring together
• hoard
• gather
• agglomerate
• husband
• augment
• amass
• increase
• Accumulation
• Heap
• collection
• aggregation
• pile
• Aggregate
• Aggregation
• Sum
• result
• total
• whole
• totality
• amount
• collation
• combination
• Body
• Substance
• substantiality
• collectiveness
• assemblage
• matter
• association
• organization
• Bulk
• Mass
• entirety
• integrity
• majority
• size
• magnitude
• extension
• body
• volume
• bigness
• largeness
• massiveness
• dimension

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of MASS)

• Fall
• recede
• relapse
• decline
• fail
• Originate
• arise
• precede
• spring
• commence
• start
• begin

Related words: (words related to MASS)

• BRANDLING; BRANDLIN
  See WORM
• BROKERY
  The business of a broker. And with extorting, cozening, forfeiting, And tricks belonging unto brokery. Marlowe.
• BREVIARY
  summary, abridgment, neut. noun fr. breviarius abridged, fr. brevis 1. An abridgment; a compend; an epitome; a brief account or summary. A book entitled the abridgment or breviary of those roots that are to be cut up or gathered. Holland. 2. A
• SPRUNT
  1. Anything short and stiff. 2. A leap; a spring. 3. A steep ascent in a road.
• COLLECTIVENESS
  A state of union; mass.
• BRITTLELY
  In a brittle manner. Sherwood.
• STORER
  One who lays up or forms a store.
• BRAND IRON
  1. A branding iron. 2. A trivet to set a pot on. Huloet. 3. The horizontal bar of an andiron.
• COLLECTEDLY
  Composedly; coolly.
• BRAZIL NUT
  An oily, three-sided nut, the seed of the Bertholletia excelsa; the cream nut. Note: From eighteen to twenty-four of the seed or "nuts" grow in a hard and nearly globular shell.
• BRAST
  To burst. And both his yën braste out of his face. Chaucer. Dreadfull furies which their chains have brast. Spenser.
• BREAKMAN
  See BRAKEMAN
• SPREADINGLY
  , adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton.
• BROID
  To braid. Chaucer.
• BROIDERER
  One who embroiders.
• BRUISEWORT
  A plant supposed to heal bruises, as the true daisy, the soapwort, and the comfrey.
• BRAWNER
  A boor killed for the table.
• BRACHIOGANOID
  One of the Brachioganoidei.
• SPRINGBOARD
  An elastic board, secured at the ends, or at one end, often by elastic supports, used in performing feats of agility or in exercising.
• BRITANNIC
  Of or pertaining to Great Britain; British; as, her Britannic Majesty.
• BREATHE
  Etym: 1. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I am in health, I breathe." Shak. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Sir W. Scott. 2. To take breath; to rest from action. Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again! Shak. 3.
• COUNTERBRACE
  To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another.
• DISPROPORTIONALLY
  In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
• UNDERBRED
  Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith.
• OPPROBRIOUS
  1. Expressive of opprobrium; attaching disgrace; reproachful; scurrilous; as, opprobrious language. They . . . vindicate themselves in terms no less opprobrious than those by which they are attacked. Addison. 2. Infamous; despised; rendered
• CREBRICOSTATE
  Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
• TECTIBRANCHIA
  See TECTIBRANCHIATA
• BRASIER; BRAZIER
  An artificer who works in brass. Franklin.
• MAKE AND BREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• CAMBRIC
  1. A fine, thin, and white fabric made of flax or linen. He hath ribbons of all the colors i' the rainbow; . . . inkles, caddises, cambrics, lawns. Shak. 2. A fabric made, in imitation of linen cambric, of fine, hardspun cotton, often with figures
• CHICKEN-BREASTED
  Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column.
• OVERBROW
  To hang over like a brow; to impend over. Longfellow. Did with a huge projection overbrow Large space beneath. Wordsworth.