Usage examples (25)

• A brief invitatory note
• The rest of the standard Prayer Book service -- invitatory "O Gracious Light", Psalm, Apostles' Creed, prayers and collects -- will be sung or chanted.
• Many, if not most, of these were contrafacts i.e, adapted from existing chants, such as the invitatory antiphons Venite omnes and Regem sepulcrum beati Iacobi.
• Tam o 'Shanter-like, elated with the contents of the pewter vessels, he nothing either feared or doubted, and off went the lad to the fairy hill; so, being arrived at the base,...