Do we say terce or terse

terce 26 occurrences

Terce, Sext, None " XVII.

The day Office embraces Prime, Terce, Sext, None, Vespers, and Compline.

Terce, recited when the sun is high in the heavens shedding brilliant light, symbolises early manhood with its strength and glory.

As regards the little hoursPrime, Terce, Sext, None and Complinethe freedom of the competent ecclesiastical authorities was as yet unconfined by canonical restrictions.

If the ordination is finished before nine o'clock, the sub-deacon is bound to begin his recitation with Terce.

The question is discussed by theologians if the recitation of Terce or Sext may be lawfully and validly made before the ordination.

The order of the Hours points out which of the seven hours should be recited, firstly, secondly, etc., Matins, Lauds, Prime, Terce, etc.

If a person say the same Hour (e.g., Terce) twice, may he compensate for extra labour by the omission of an equivalent part (e.g., None)?

St. Francis of Assisi, working at a piece of furniture before saying Terce, was, during the saying of that hour disturbed by the thought of his manual work.

Thus, Matins, the night Office, might be offered up in honour of the birth and infancy of Christ; Lauds, in honour of His resurrection; Terce, in honour of the coming of the Holy Ghost; None, in memory of Christ's death; Vespers, in thanksgiving for the Eucharist.

The capitulum is found in Christian services of the fourth century; and St. Ambrose (340-397) is said to have instituted the capitula of Terce, Sext and None.

Terce has generally the same words for the Capitulum, as Vespers and Lauds, because it is the grandest and most sublime of the little Hours.

The Preces are recited in the Office of (1) Prime and Compline on certain days; (2) Lauds, Prime, Terce, Sext, None, Vespers and Compline of certain feasts.

They have the same structure in Terce, Sext, None, but differ in character.

As no other choir work called them until Terce, at 9 a.m., some of them were inclined to rest until that hour and to neglect the spiritual reading and manual work laid down by their rule.

To prevent this prolonged rest, it was decided to introduce a short choir service, the recital of a few psalms, and then the monks went to work until Terce (Cath. Encyclopedia, "Prime").

At Prime, and at the small Hours, Terce, Sext, None, only one antiphon is said.

TERCE, SEXT, NONE (TITLE XVI.).

The word Terce comes from the Latin word tertia (hora), third.

Terce is called the golden Hour, hora aurea, because at this time of the day, the third Hour, the Holy Ghost, who is typified by gold, descended on the apostles.

The custom of praying at these three hours, terce, sext and none, is very ancient.

TEXTS AND INTENTIONS FOR PIOUS RECITATION OF TERCE.

The structure of this hour is similar to that given in Terce above, the hymn, antiphon, psalms, little chapter and responses differing, but the order and form being similar in both.

See note under this head at Terce.

It is true I understand cart and terce, parry and thrust, but I have heard that Prettyman studied under Olivier.

terse 151 occurrences

" <Concise, terse, succinct, compendious, compact, sententious, pithy, laconic, curt.

A terse statement is rubbed off, rid of unessentials.

Each speaker spoke but a few terse expressive sentences; and after each speech came a pause allowing full time for the consideration of its reasoning.

Thy gibes and thy jokes are now extinct, or survive but in two forgotten volumes, which I had the good fortune to rescue from a stall in Barbican, not three days ago, and found thee terse, fresh, epigrammatic, as alive.

The labour of expanding a terse sentence to its full meaning is often greater than the labour of picking out the meaning from a diffuse and loitering passage.

"That terse remark made her sit up and take notice, for she had been telling one of the members of the party who she was trying to make a hit with that she got her money from her large estates in England.

IV. I'th' under column there doth stand Inamorato with folded hand; Down hangs his head, terse and polite, Some ditty sure he doth indite.

For where you shall see the people civil, obedient to God and princes, judicious, peaceable and quiet, rich, fortunate, and flourish, to live in peace, in unity and concord, a country well tilled, many fair built and populous cities, ubi incolae nitent as old Cato said, the people are neat, polite and terse, ubi bene, beateque vivunt, which our politicians make the chief end of a commonwealth; and which Aristotle, Polit.

The impassive Dervish raved; Mustapha stormed; François broke out in a frightful eruption of Greek and Turkish oaths, and the two travellers, though not (as I hope and believe) profanely inclined, could not avoid using a few terse Saxon expressions.

The lower features were terse, succinct, and powerful,from the bold, decided jaw, to the large, firm, ugly, good-humored mouth.

Johnson's periods act like a lever of the third kind,the power applied always exceeds the weight raised; while the terse, laconic style of later writers is eminently a lever on the first principle, and gives the mind the utmost purchase on the subject in hand.

Without being open to the charge of levity or flippancy, Mr. Chamberlain's speeches used to be remarkable for a certain amount of humour, banter, touch-and-go smartness, as well as terse argumentative force.

The "Rufus Stone," as the iron memorial is called, with its terse and non-committal inscription was placed here by a former Lord de la Warr.

Hence the Russian speech, like the Russian thought, is direct, terse and almost crude in its elemental power.

"If Pulse of Terse, a Nation's Temper shows, In keen Iambics English Metre flows.

In reviews and critical essays, the general characters of style are usually designated by such epithets as these;concise, diffuse,neat, negligent,terse, bungling,nervous, weak,forcible, feeble,vehement, languid,simple, affected,easy, stiff,pure, barbarous,perspicuous, obscure,elegant, uncouth,florid, plain,flowery, artless,fluent, dry,piquant, dull,stately, flippant,majestic, mean,pompous, modest,ancient, modern.

A terse or concise style is very apt to be elliptical: and, in some particular instances, must be so; but, at the same time, the full expression, perhaps, may have more precision, though it be less agreeable.

His vein of satire was keen, terse, and powerful, beyond any that has since been displayed.

His style was clear, terse, compact ...

In one speech a Chippewa chief put into terse form the reasons for making the treaty, and for giving the Americans title to the land, saying, "Elder Brother, you asked who were the true owners of the land now ceded to the United States.

Query whether it is not a thought naturally presenting itself to the mind, reflected by memory, confirmed by experience, and which some Mimic author has made proverbial by his terse, gnomic form of expression.

" The answer was given in a number of sharp, terse, letters, sent to the Liberator from various places where the sisters stopped while lecturing.

The pillow of this daring head Is pungent evergreens; His larder terse and militant Unknown, refreshing things; His character a tonic, His future a dispute; Unfair an immortality That leaves this neighbor out.

Those who have read the novel, and those who, like ourselves, have seen only the title, may be equally willing to hear the story of this high-spirited dame told in the terse, rapid mannerbrief, but full of detailof Dumas.

The maxims of a Poor Richard are anticipated here, as quaint, as terse, and as sagacious in the ancient Jew as in the modern American.

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