A brief invitatory note.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

The rest of the standard Prayer Book service -- invitatory "O Gracious Light", Psalm, Apostles' Creed, prayers and collects -- will be sung or chanted.    From Wordnik.com.  [BatesLine: March 2005 Archives] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference

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, he was nothing loth to extend his voice to its utmost powers in giving utterance to the above invitatory verses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 61, December 28, 1850] Reference

With the invitatory, we invite the Lord to enable us to speak his praises.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vindicated] Reference

After an invitatory addressed to the people, the celebrant recited a prayer.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Liturgical Movement] Reference

The Little Vespers, which are recited before sunset, consist of the invitatory versicles.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference

Placebo, and the Office of Matins, if we exclude the invitatory, begins with the antiphon Dirige.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference

We have been singing this invitatory all week and at various other times during the Lenten season.    From Wordnik.com.  [MONIALES OP] Reference

"Don't care if I do, Bill," he continued, in response to Bill's invitatory gesture, walking to the bar.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's and Other Stories] Reference

Mr. James Clinch, who, disregarding that fact and the invitatory table d'hote, stepped into the street.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Twins of Table Mountain] Reference

Also, the antiphoner whose duty it was to read the invitatory at Matins, intone the first antiphon of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference

Other female whims followed, but none, methought, so pregnant, so invitatory of shrewd conceits, and more than single meanings.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bed-Book of Happiness] Reference

In the invitatory we sing "he endured suffering" but this endurance was a positive action on his part, the total oblation of himself to his Father that brings about our salvation.    From Wordnik.com.  [MONIALES OP] Reference

The couplets of invitatory and collect which occur in the Roman Good Friday service are given with verbal variations in the Gothicum; in both, however, there are other prayers of a similar type and prayers for some of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference

Before or after None, an office called Ta typika is recited, which consists ordinarily of the invitatory versicles, Psalms 102 and 145, and a troparion, but in the seasons of fasting this Office is regulated by different rubrics.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference

The Sunday Office is made up of the invitatory, hymn, three nocturns, the first of which comprises twelve psalms, and the second and third three psalms each; nine lessons, three to each nocturn, each lesson except the ninth being followed by a response; and finally, the canticle Te Deum, which is recited or sung after the ninth lesson instead of a response.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference

In the Ambrosian rite the first part only of the Song is used as an invitatory before the Matin Psalms, under the title, somewhat confusing to us, of “Benedictus” (D.C.A. art.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Three Additions to Daniel: A Study.] Reference

A sort of invitatory or mutual call to each other to praise the Lord, might come forth into the Imperial sunshine and hold their services in basilicas or public halls, the roofs of which (Jerome tells us) "re-echoed with their cries of Alleluia," while Ambrose says the sound of their psalms as they sang in celebration of the Nativity "was like the surging of the sea in great waves of sound.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries] Reference

It was his duty to read or sing the invitatory at Matins, to give out the first antiphon at the Psalms, and also the versicles, responsoria after the lessons etc. The weekly reader and servers in the kitchen and refectory entered upon their duties on Sunday when, in company with the servers of the previous week, they had to ask and receive a special blessing in choir as directed in chapters xxxv and xxxviii of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference

Other female whims followed, but none methought so pregnant, so invitatory of shrewd conceits, and more than single meanings. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [History of English Humour, Vol. 2 (of 2)] Reference

I will write an invitatory song to the EDITOR.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, April 1844 Volume 23, Number 4] Reference

(816) mentions the invitatory psalm "Venite" and forbids its use in the Office of the Dead.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference

The latter is composed of a doxology, troparion, the trisagion, the Lord's Prayer, the Kyrie Eleison repeated twelve times, and invitatory versicles, and Psalms 50, 69, and 162, which are followed by the greater doxology, the Creed, the trisagion, the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference

At Matins, after the versicles follow the invitatory "Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum" with the "Venite then the hymn" Quem terra, pontus, sidera "; then three groups of psalms, each with their antiphons, of which one group is said on Sundays, Mondays, and Thursdays, the second on Tuesdays and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference