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- noun Plural form of
missal .
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Examples
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I never could see any sense in those funny things he called missals, nor the incunabula, if that's the way you pronounce it.
From the Housetops George Barr McCutcheon 1897
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In the Spanish section we notice the neatly rolled cigarettes of the cigarette-makers and the nets of the fisher-wives lying near the rich embroideries of the nuns, the exquisite missals from the convent schools, the paintings and writings of royal amateurs.
Art and Handicraft in the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893 1894
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Second, according to paragraph 18, there belongs to the third group of prohibited works, all liturgical books, such as missals, breviaries and the like, in case any change is made in them without special sanction of the Apostolic See.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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"missals" as that would be seen as religious intolerance & THAT is simply not politically correct these days.
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Imagine, whereever you live, that the State next to you sent in bombs with nails and missals into your town.
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As the Catholic church's missals and processionals and primers were removed, the English Bible became the only source of doctrine and ceremony.
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Then her mother began collecting all the Catholic objects in their flat, the crucifixes hung on walls, the rosaries nested in drawers, the missals propped on shelves, and put them all in a large waterproof bag, which she carried to the backyard, her steps zealously determined, her faraway look unwavering.
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The liturgical movement took advantage of this opportunity to push for the universal distribution of hand missals with translations.
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This resemblance is found in the Missal of St. Pius V, as in all of the missals that came before it, and in the medieval usages of the great cathedrals and religious orders.
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Imagine, whereever you live, that the State next to you sent in bombs with nails and missals into your town.
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