The word "collect" means either that the priest who celebrates Mass collects in a short form the needs, the thanksgivings and the praises of the people, to offer them up to God; or most probably "the original meaning seems to have been this: it was used for the service held at a certain church on the days when there was a station held somewhere else.

The Easter Octave celebrates by festivals the supper at Emmaus, the appearance of our Lord (St. Luke xxiv.),

The historian above-mentioned, who is a panegyrist of his master, throws the blame entirely on the fickle and mutinous disposition of the English, and highly celebrates the justice and lenity of Odo's and Fitz-Osberne's administration [t].

Tell me who is that accomplished countess she celebrates.

The matter of France deals largely with the exploits of Charlemagne and his peers, and the chief of these Carlovingian cycles is the Chanson de Roland, the national epic, which celebrates the heroism of Roland in his last fight against the Saracens at Ronceval.

This ode celebrates the same victory as the foregoing.

He said that only at special festival times, such as the annual visit of the priest, who celebrates mass in the church here, once a year, are the buildings fully occupied.

Of the person whose memory it celebrates, a copious account may be seen in the appendix to the supplement to the Biographia Britannica.

I have found it so grateful and refreshing a drink, that I can readily pardon the pleasant exaggeration of the Arabic poet, Abd-el Kader Anazari Djezeri Hanbali, the son of Mahomet, who thus celebrates its virtues.

On Easter Sunday, when the Pope celebrates high mass in the church of St Peter's, the Papal noble Guard, composed of young men from the principal families in Rome, form a hedge on each side of the nave of the church, from the entrance of the facade to the grand altar.

Mr. Moore has no such apology;he takes care to intimate to us, in every page that the raptures which he celebrates do not spring from the excesses of an innocent love, or the extravagance of a romantic attachment; but are the unhallowed fruits of cheap and vulgar prostitution, the inspiration of casual amours, and the chorus of habitual debauchery.

Nothing has so much degraded literature from its natural rank, as the practice of indecent and promiscuous dedication; for what credit can he expect who professes himself the hireling of vanity, however profligate, and without shame or scruple, celebrates the worthless, dignifies the mean, and gives to the corrupt, licentious, and oppressive, the ornaments which ought only to add grace to truth, and loveliness to innocence?

V. Æneas reaches Sicily, and celebrates there the games in honor of Anchises.

She read, "Rome Celebrates AnniversaryFleet Sails from Guantanamo," and chuckled.

He did not indeed, for that would have been pains misapplied, attempt to smooth his verses into the harmony of those in which he occasionally celebrates female beauty; but he gave them varied tone, correct rhyme, and masculine energy, all which had hitherto been strangers to the English satire.

In this will consist the only propriety of this transient show, that it will resemble the war of which it celebrates the period.

R585970. Dancing in the Moscow streets: city celebrates 800th birthday.

Krishna now returns to Dwarka in triumph, is given a rapturous welcome and a little later celebrates his marriage with full ritual.

Krishna is delighted with her youth, places her in his chariot and on his return to Dwarka, celebrates their wedding.

It is this union, which consummates the aspirations of humanity, that Shelley celebrates in the marvellous love-song of Prometheus.

He writes to Mr Gisborne about the Epipsychidion, saying that he cannot look at it now, for "the person whom it celebrates was a cloud instead of a Juno," and continues, "If you are curious, however, to hear what I am and have been, it will tell you something thereof.

Farther in summer than the birds, Pathetic from the grass, A minor nation celebrates Its unobtrusive mass.

Thus the fair tyrant celebrates the prize, And acts herself the triumph of her eyes: So Nero once, with harp in hand, survey'd His flaming Rome, and as it burn'd he play'd.

Here, kneeling at the altar, he celebrates a private mass of thanksgiving for the marchesa and Enrica.

"Marescotti celebrates her as the young Madonna before the archangel Gabriel visited her.