Introits is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.
You can make 163 anagrams from letters in introits (iinorstt).
1475-85; Medieval Latin introitus (misse or ad missam), Latin: entrance, beginning, equivalent to intro-, combining form of intrō intro- + -i-, variant stem of īre t
When the Mass began the choir broke forth, singing the introit.
Before the introit the crucifix, the altar23, the celebrant and the Pope are successively incensed.
To our modern ears the introit is new; but it is in reality an old thing, in this and some other instances revived.
Ascending the altar, the priest passed at once to the right hand side where lay the Mass-Book, from which he read the introit.
Violently the introit rang out, as if from depths beyond the grave, and in it were mingled the tragedy of the man and of the God.
This, from being sung or said whilst the minister made his entrance within the rails, was called introitus or introit.
The York rubric directed him to do it immediately alter the first saying of the introit, which in England was thrice said.
The organist was practicing the introit anthem, and half way up the church a woman was sitting quietly.
Montanelli stood before the high altar among his ministers and acolytes and read the introit aloud in steady tones.
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