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51st Psalm
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miserere
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Miserere (full title: Miserere mei, Deus , Latin for "Have mercy on me, O God") is a setting of Psalm 51 (50) by Italian composer Gregorio Allegri . It was composed during the reign of Pope Urban VIII , probably during the 1630s, for use in the Sistine ...
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n. 1 A prayer for mercy. 2 An expression of lamentation or complaint. 3 A medieval dagger, used for the mercy stroke to a wounded foe; misericord. 4 (context architecture English) A small projecting boss or bracket on the underside of the hinged seat of ...
Usage examples of miserere.
Bonum, malum, qui fecisti Mali imploramus te, Salve fratrem, causa Christi, Miserere Domine!
These misereres show the Seven Works of Mercy, and Tossie obediently went into the Girdlers Chapel to admire them, followed by the black marble altar tomb, assorted fan vaulting, and a monument with a particularly long and illegible inscription.
Sultan, her cat, who could have miauled the Miserere of Allegri at the Sistine Chapel, had filled her heart, and sufficed for the amount of passion which she possessed.
Scott had put in to prevent strain on the arches, began to buckle and melt in the heat, bringing the fifteenth-century arches and the roof down on the altar and the carved misereres and Handelâs organ and the wooden cross with the child kneeling at its foot.
Scott had put in to prevent strain on the arches, began to buckle and melt in the heat, bringing the fifteenth-century arches and the roof down on the altar and the carved misereres and Handel’s organ and the wooden cross with the child kneeling at its foot.
He noticed that he had been copying Davids prayer for pardon, the fourth penitential psalm, Miserere mei, Deus&for I know my iniquity, and my sin is always before me.