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Date: 1200-1300
Language: Medieval Latin
Origin: missale, from Vulgar Latin missa; MASS15

missal

 noun
     
Related topics: Christianity
mis‧sal [countable]
RRC a book containing all the prayers said during each Mass for a whole year in the Roman Catholic church
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