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Mass

Mass [ mass ] (plural Masses) or mass [ mass ] (plural mass·es)


noun 
Definition:
 
1. Christian ceremony: in the Roman Catholic Church and some Protestant churches, the religious ceremony of Communion

2. musical setting of Mass: a part of the text of a Roman Catholic Mass set to music, to be sung by a choir

[Pre-12th century. < ecclesiastical Latin missa< Latin mittere "send away"]
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