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invitatory

[ in-vahy-tuh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee ]

adjective

  1. serving to invite; conveying an invitation.


invitatory

/ -trɪ; ɪnˈvaɪtətərɪ /

adjective

  1. serving as or conveying an invitation
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. any of various invitations to prayer, such as Psalm 95 in a religious service
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of invitatory1

1300–50; Middle English < Late Latin Աīōܲ, equivalent to Ա ( re ) to invite + -ōܲ -tory 1
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Example Sentences

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The focus is on the chants found in the manuscript, although the recording does not include some of them, such as the alternate invitatory and a string of extra antiphons at the end of Lauds.

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We appeal to each of these post-Elizabethans with the invitatory line of one of them: ‘Charm me asleep with thy delicious numbers!’

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“Don’t care if I do, Bill,” he continued, in response to Bill’s invitatory gesture, walking to the bar.

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I will write an invitatory song to the Editor.

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Down one block—two, three; then a sudden pause before a narrow store front liberally placarded with invitatory signs to the public, and with a red cross blazoning above the doorway.

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