These 10 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Massa, Massage, Massasoit.
in music, a setting of certain portions of the mass to music; the portions of the mass usually set to musicnamely, the Kyrie, the Gloria, the Credo, the Sanctus, and the Agnus Dei. An Offertory and Benedictus are sometimes added to these numbers. Masses are designated musically after the key in which they commence, as Beethoven in d; and liturgically, according to the character and solemnity of the accompanying ceremonial.
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in Roman Catholic theology and ritual, "the perpetual sacrifice of the new covenant, in which the body and blood of Jesus Christ are really and truly offered to God under the species of bread and wine." According to the "Catechism of the Council of Trent," the Sacrifice of the Mass was instituted by our Lord at His last supper (Luke xxii: 19); it must be offered to God alone; was signified in Jachi i: 11; is the same sacrifice with f the Cross; there is one priest of the celebrant uses not his own words, but those of Jesus Christ; it is a sacrifice of praise and propitiation, and available for the living and the dead. There is an obligation on all Christians of the Roman Obedience to hear mass on all Sundays and holy days of obligation.
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a city in Italy, 26 miles N. of Pisa. Extensive marble quarries are located near here, and the city also is important for its manufactures of silk and paper. Pop. about 30,000.
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2026 Editor's Note: This page uses language about other peoples, religions, or nationalities that was commonplace when the book was published and is offensive by today's standards. The text has been left exactly as it was printed, rather than cut or softened, so that the historical record — including how ordinary such language once was — is preserved. (Ed: ET 2026-07-22) ma-sazh', in therapeutics, the art of manipulating the muscles and tissues of the patient. The word is from the Greek verb meaning to knead. The purpose of massage is to strengthen the muscles and to improve the circulation, stimulate the action of the secretory and excretory organs, and to invigorate the entire system. The process includes stroking, kneading, friction, and percussion. Massage in some form was in use at an early period by the Chinese, the ancient Egyptians, the Greeks, the Romans, and many other nations. Even savages make use of it in a crude form. Massage is associated with the Swedish movement-cure of Ling, and with the osteopathy of Dr. Still, but is a much more general term than either, and involves no special theory of disease. In 1877 Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, of Philadelphia, advocated the application of massage in certain disorders, and did much to extend its use among practitioners of the regular schools of medicine. It is considered at present a valuable means of cure if properly applied, but capable of doing injury if used indiscreetly. See Osteopathy
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Indian chief; born in Massachusetts about 1580. His dominions comprised the district in the S. E. part of Massachusetts between Cape Cod and Narragansett Bay. In March, 1621, three months after the landing of the Pilgrims, he sent a warrior named Samoset to Plymouth who shouted in English, which he had learned from Penobscot fishermen, "Welcome Englishmen!" Later Massasoit visited the Pilgrims in person and arranged a treaty of friendship in which both sides promised to refrain from all overt and hostile acts and to aid each other if either were unjustly attacked. This promise was faithfully kept for 54 years. Massasoit died near Warren, R. I., in 1660. the present
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JULES ÉMILE FRE- DÉRIC (mäs-nā'), a French composer; born in Montaud, France, May 12, 1842. He won the "Prix "Prix de Rome" in 1863, was favorably received as the composer of meritorious orchestral works and a comic opera, "The Great Aunt" (1867), before the Franco-Prussian War, and in 1873 took his place among the foremost of the younger composers of France, his fame being established by the comic opera "Don Cæsar de Bazan" (1872), the classical opera "The Furies" (1873), and the oratorio "Mary Magdalen" (1873). - MASSINGER These were followed by the oratories "Eve" (1875) and "Virgin" (1879), the great operas "King of Lahore" (1877), "Herodiade" (1881); "Manon Lescaut" (1884); and "Esclairmonde" (1889); "Thais" (1894); "Le Jongleur de Notre- Dame" (1902); "Sapho' "Sapho" (1907); "Bacchus" (1908); "Roma" (1912); "Cléopâtre" (posthumus, 1914). He died in 1912.
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WILLIAM FERGUSON, Prime Minister of New Zealand and Minister of Lands and Labor since 1912. Born at Limavady, Ireland, in 1856. Educated at public schools. Emigrated to New Zealand in 1870 and followed farming. Was early associated with local government as President of Agricultural Societies, Farmer Clubs. Represented Waitemata in the New Zealand Parliament, 1894. Member for Franklin, 1896. Leader of the Opposition, 1903. Held offices as Minister of Land, Labor, Agriculture, Industry, and Commerce. A representative of New Zealand at the Imperial War Cabinet and Conference in 1917-1918. MASSICO (mass'-) (Mons Massicus), a mountain in the province of Terra di Lavoro, Naples, Italy, and having on its slopes a town of the same name. Massic wine has been famous from remote times.
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a French hamlet in the department of the Marne. Before the World War of 1914-1918 the population was 153. It was the center of intense struggles between the Germans and the forces of the Allies.
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a city in Stark co., 0.; on the Tuscarawas river, the Ohio canal, and the Wheeling and Lake Erie, the Pensylvannia and the Northern Ohio Traction and Light Co. railroads; 8 miles W. of Canton, and 55 miles S. of Cleveland. It is located in the famous Tuscarawas valley coalfield. There are electric light and street railroad plants, waterworks, business college, high school, National banks, and daily and weekly newspapers. It is the seat of the State hospital and Asylum for the Insane, and has machine shops, rolling mill, extensive agricultural implement works, bridge works, glass works, foundry, pottery, etc. Pop. (1910) 13,879; (1920) 17,428,
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mas'si-lon, Jean Baptiste (1663-1742), a distinguished French clergyman. He has been styled the Racine of the French pulpit, and is said by some to have been the greatest pulpit orator of France. During the latter years of Louis XIV , Massillon was the court preacher. At the time of his advancement at court, the aged king had already turned from a dissolute life to a life of asceticism. He is said to have declared that other preachers made him "pleased with them, but that Massillon made him displeased with himself." He was elected a member of the French academy. The last twenty years of his life were spent in retirement as Bishop of Clermont. His collected works, chiefly sermons, were published in twelve volumes.
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