Meaning of Introibo | Babel Free

Definitions

The prayers spoken by the priest at the foot of the altar at the start of a Tridentine Mass.

no-plural

Examples

“At the Introibo he noticed at his right, as usual, his guardian angel, who acted as the angel mentioned by St. John in the Apocalypse, standing before the altar and bearing a golden censer.”

“In place of the humble but hopeful supplication of the Introibo, we have the narcissistic, desperate anguish of 1, punctuated by a blues refrain in the key of death and loss, drunkenness, violence, and sexuality.”

“As imposing and plump as Buck Mulligan standing on top of a spiral stairway whilst intoning an “Introibo”, his slowly magnifying body brings to mind a purplish balloon, of a sort that you might buy for your child in Parc Montsouris.”

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