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Of or pertaining to the Mass, or to a missal or Mass book. Bp. Hall.

scharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.

he first, third, sixth, and ninth hours, vespers, and compline; -- distinguished from the missal.

an Catholic in praying; a third of a rosary, or fifty beads. Her chaplet of beads and her missal. Longfellow.

The act of taking leave; parting ceremony; farewell; also, dismissal.

Rejection; dismissal. [R.] Hayter.

Release or dismissal from an office, employment, etc.; dismission; as, the discharge of a workman by his employer.

The act dismissing or sending away; permission to leave; leave to depart; dismissal; as, the dismission of the grand jury.

Any sending away; dismissal; riddance. To the utter dispatch of all their most beloved comforts. Milton.

f offices in the Roman Catholic Church; a gradual. [Obs.] T. Warton. Such as antiphonals, missals, grails, processionals, etc. Strype.

ough-out, without music. -- Mass bell, the sanctus bell. See Sanctus. -- Mass book, the missal or Roman Catholic service book.

Act of serving or covering. See Serve, v. t., 13. Service book, a prayer book or missal. -- Service line (Tennis), a line parallel to the net, and at a distance of 21 feet from it. -- Service of a writ, process, etc. (Law), personal delivery or communication of the writ or process, etc., to the party to be affected b…

leaf insect. See under Leaf. -- Walking papers, or Walking ticket, an order to leave; dismissal, as from office. [Colloq.] Bartlett. -- Walking stick. (a) A stick or staff carried in the hand for hand for support or amusement when walking; a cane. (b) (Zoöl.) A stick insect; -- called also walking straw. See Illust.…

rteous action It waves you to a more removed ground. Shak. She spoke, and bowing waved Dismissal. Tennyson.