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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In the Western Church since the fifth century or later, and in the Roman Catholic Church to the present day, the hymn sung by the deacon from the pulpit (formerly from the gospel ambo) at the benediction of the paschal taper on Holy Saturday or Easter eve.
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He then gives the reed to an acolythe; and before he sings the _exultet_ or blessing of the
The Ceremonies of the Holy-Week at Rome Charles Michael Baggs
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Let the earth resound with joy: let the earth be glad ... (exultet is the very word used in the Vulgate translation of the Psalm) -- before the Lord, for He cometh to judge the earth.
Primitive Christian Worship Or, The Evidence of Holy Scripture and the Church, Against the Invocation of Saints and Angels, and the Blessed Virgin Mary James Endell Tyler 1820
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Constantino magno imperatore per eius largitatem sancta Dei Catholica et Apostolica Romana ecclesia elevata et exaltata est et potestatem in his Hesperiæ partibus largiri dignatus, ita et in his vestris felicissimis temporibus atque nostris sancta Dei ecclesia, id est beati Petri apostoli, germinet atque exultet ....) several writers, e.g. Döllinger, Langen, Meyer, and others have concluded that Adrian
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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As early as 1429, a humanist on the side of Charles VII asserted in Ciceronian language that in military glory she equalled and surpassed Hector, Alexander, Hannibal and Cæsar: "Non Hectore reminiscat et gaudeat Troja, exultet Græcia
The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 Anatole France 1884
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Laetentur coeli et exultet terra, et de vestris benignis actibus universae republicae populus nunc usque vehementer afflictus hilarescat, &c. This base flattery, the topic of Protestant invective, is justly censured by the philosopher Bayle, (Dictionnaire Critique, Gregoire I.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 Edward Gibbon 1765
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Laetentur coeli et exultet terra, et de vestris benignis actibus universae republicae populus nunc usque vehementer afflictus hilarescat, &c. This base flattery, the topic of Protestant invective, is justly censured by the philosopher Bayle, (Dictionnaire Critique, Gregoire I.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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