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Dies Irae   Listen
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Dies Irae  n.  Day of wrath; the name and beginning of a famous mediaeval Latin hymn on the Last Judgment.






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"Dies Irae" Quotes from Famous Books



... young soldier, Valentin, and his death—stabbed by her lover (or rather by Mephisto) at night beneath her window, and cursing her as he dies; the scene in the Cathedral; the pealing organ and the solemn tones of the Dies Irae mingling with the terrible words of the accusing spirit, till Gretchen sinks ...
— The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust' • H. B. Cotterill

... Dies Irae.—The first two words of a Latin hymn, meaning "Day of Wrath," being the 36th of the Hymnal. It is supposed to have been written in the Twelfth Century by Thomas of Celano. The translation of this hymn used in the Hymnal was made by the Rev. W. J. ...
— The American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia • William James Miller

... we want a milder term than monomania. Something like monowhimsia would do. It is seldom that an oddity takes so pleasant a turn. He has published a dainty little volume, with a well-written introduction, giving the history of the "Dies Irae," and an account of the various versions of it; this is followed by his own thirteen translations; and an appendix tells us what is meant by a Sequence, has a page or two on the origin of rhyming Latin, ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 32, June, 1860 • Various



Words linked to "Dies Irae" :   hymn, anthem



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