Mass

Mass
noun
  1. the Christian Eucharist or Holy Communion, especially in the Roman Catholic Church
    弥撒
    we went to Mass.
    我们去做弥撒。
    the Latin Mass.
    用拉丁文的弥撒。
    ■a celebration of this
    弥撒活动
    there was a Mass and the whole family was supposed to go.
    有一次弥撒活动,全家人都得去。
    ■a musical setting of parts of the liturgy used in the Mass
    弥撒曲
常用词组
hear Mass
  1. attend a celebration of the Mass without taking communion (especially as the former usual practice of lay Catholics)
    听弥撒(指参加弥撒活动但不参加圣餐礼)
语源
  1. Old English mæsse, from ecclesiastical Latin missa, from Latin miss- 'dismissed', from mittere, perhaps from the last words of the service, Ite, missa est 'Go, it is the dismissal'
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