English Explanatory Dictionary

preces

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The alternate responsive petitions, as the versicles and suffrages, between the clergyman and the congregation in liturgical worship.

Word forms

preces

Etymology

From Latin precēs (“prayers”).

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