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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
High \High\, a. [Compar. Higher ; superl. Highest .] [OE. high, hegh, hey, heh, AS. he['a]h, h?h; akin to OS. h?h, OFries. hag, hach, D. hoog, OHG. h?h, G. hoch, Icel. h?r, Sw. h["o]g, Dan. h["o]i, Goth. hauhs, and to Icel. haugr mound, G. h["u]gel ...

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High Mass may refer to: A High Mass in the Anglican (or Anglo-Catholic ) tradition, celebrated by a priest, assisted by a deacon and subdeacon. Solemn Mass , a Tridentine Mass celebrated with deacon and subdeacon (international and general United States ...

Usage examples of high mass.

They attended High Mass, more to be seen than for reasons of faith, she in ruffled skirts and splendid shawls and the starched lace headdress of a white woman from Castille, with an entourage of slave women dressed in silk and covered in gold.

A high mass was said that evening for the success of the endeavor.

However, if the force-carrying particles have a high mass, it will be difficult to produce and exchange them over a large distance.

I heard the King of Sicily's eight chanters strike up the first verse of High Mass at seven o'clock in the Sainte-Chapelle.

He longed for the minor sacred offices, to be vested with the tunicle of subdeacon at high mass, to stand aloof from the altar, forgotten by the people, his shoulders covered with a humeral veil, holding the paten within its folds or, when the sacrifice had been accomplished, to stand as deacon in a dalmatic of cloth of gold on the step below the celebrant, his hands joined and his face towards the people, and sing the chant Ite missa est.

Saint Giles, and on his way back to be in time for High Mass and chapter.

He was taken for one of the resident brothers on some errand between the abbey and Saint Giles, and on his way back to be in time for High Mass and chapter.

This was a day on which secular and monastic clergy united to do honor to their saint, and chapter was postponed until after High Mass, when the church was open to all the pilgrims who wished to bring their private petitions to her altar, to touch her silver reliquary and offer prayers and gifts in the hope of engaging her gentle attention and benevolence for their illnesses, burdens, and anxieties.

He asks that prayers be made at every High Mass for the repose of the soul of a good man, treacherously slain in Winchester as he strove to keep the peace and reconcile faction with faction, in Christian duty.

A clock strikes halfpast ten and I start on my way: Sundays, at this hour, you can see a fine show in Bouville, but you must not come too late after High Mass.

According to the priest at Holy Re-formed, fasting was observed between the midnight mass and the high mass Christmas morning, but everyone, including the bishop's envoy, ate heartily of the roast pheasant and goose and stewed rabbit in saffron gravy.