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Agnus Dei

noun

Figure of a lamb; emblematic of Christ. Synonym: Paschal Lamb.

A liturgical prayer beginning with these Latin words.

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"Agnus dei" Quotes from Famous Books

... the "Wood Robin," or the "Skylark," or one of Colcott's glees, or one of Mendelssohn's two-part songs, or Schubert's "Serenade," or Beethoven's "Adelaide"; or maybe an interlude of piano, one of Mozart's Sonatas, or "Der Freyschutz," and then a Kyrie, Dona Nobis, Gloria, or Agnus Dei, one or all, until it was time to retire. And ...

— Brook Farm • John Thomas Codman

... used in Spanish, as—Accessit, deficit, fiat, ultimatum, agnus dei, etc., do not change for ...

— Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.) • C. A. Toledano

... remarkable. Every day she visited the church to practice at the organ. This became the purpose of her life. Yet of all the pieces two were performed most frequently in her daily practice, the one being the Agnus Dei; the other, the [Greek: teleutaion aspasmon] of St. John ...

— Cord and Creese • James de Mille