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- introits
- a hymn or psalm sung when the ministers enter at the opening of a service, esp. in the Anglican church
- tribulation
- grievous trouble;severe trial of suffering;deep sorrow;misery
- presage
- foreboding, warning
- martyrs
- one who chooses to suffer death rather than renounce religious principles.
- temporal
- pertaining to or concerned with the present life or this world;worldly
- duplicity
- deceitfulness in speech or conduct;speaking or acting in two different ways concerneing the same matter with intent to deceive; double-dealing
- malversation
- improper or corrupt behavior in office, esp. in public office.
- caprice
- a sudden, unpredictable change, as of one's mind of the weather;whim
- circumlocution
- a roundabout or indirect way of speaking; the use of more words than necessary to express an idea.
- incredulity
- the quality or state of being incredulous; inablity or unwillingness to believe;skeptic, refusal to believe
- pretensions
- a claim or title to something; demeanor of doubtful acceptance
- prognostic
- a forecast or prediction; omen
- chancellor
- the cheif minister of state in certain parliamentary governments
- courtiers
- a person who is often in attendance at the court of a king or other royal personage
- temporal devolution
- the passing on to a successor of an unexcercised right over a period of time; temporary passing of authority
- unaffrayed
- calm, composed, quiet
- engrossed
- occupied exclusively, absorbed
- acrimony
- sharpness, harshness, or bitterness of nature, speech, disposition, etc.
- levity
- lightness of mind, character, or behavior, lack of appropriate seriousness or earnestness; lack of mental gravity
- viols
- a medieval instrument with six strings and a curved bow
- laity
- the body of religious worshipers, as distinguised from the clergy
- perdition
- state of final spiritual ruin; loss of the soul; damnation; eternal death.
- pretence
- pretending or feigning; make-believe
- barons
- tenants; lowest level of nobility in Britain
- enmity
- a feeling or condition of histility; hatred; ill will; animosity; antagonism
- alliance
- a formal agreement or treaty between two or more parties to cooperate for specific purposes
- skein
- 360 ft. of yarn or thread wound on a reel
- supplication
- to beseech; to ask; humble prayer; petition
- parturition
- the process of bringing forth young
- faggots
- a bundle of twigs, sticks, or branches bound together
- venial
- able to be forgiven or pardoned; not seriously wrong, as a sin
- oblation
- the offering to God of the elements of bread and wine in the Eucharist
- Retrospection
- the action, process, or faculty of looking back on things past
- sordid
- morally ignoble or base; vile; degraded
- jack
- medieval coat of defense; made with leather
- vassal
- a person granted the use of land, in return for rendering homage, fealty, and usually military service; feudal tenant
- spleen
- ill humor, peevish temper, or spite
- blaspheming
- speaking impiously or irreverently of; speak ill of
- refute
- to prove to be false or erroneous, as an opinion or charge
- interpose
- to place between; cause to intervene
- see
- the official seat, center of authority, jurisdiction, or office of a bishop
- anathema
- a formal ecclesiastical curse involving excommunication
- absolve
- to free from guilt or blame or their consequences; to release from obligations
- mendicant
- person who lives be begging; begging friar; depends on alms for living
- malfeasance
- misconduct or wrongdoing, especially by a public official
- jerboa
- mouse like rodent that is very social, nocturnal, and has large hind legs
- ingurgitation
- to swallow greedily or in great quantity, as food
- byre
- a cow shed
- cloister
- a covered walk, esp. in a religious institution
- vespers
-
6th in order of canonical hours
Ang- sunset
Rom-Sunday - crypt
- a subterranean chamber or vault, esp. one beneath the main floor of a church, used as a burial place, a location for secret meetings, etc.
- arrogate
- to take or claim for oneself without right; appropriate
- bereft
- deprived as of hope or happiness
- libidinous
- full of sexual lust; lustful desires; lewd;