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dry mass

noun

Etymology

From dry + mass. In the liturgical sense, a calque of Ecclesiastical Latin missa sicca.

  1. derived from *maǵ-✻ — “to oil, knead”
  2. derived from μᾶζα — “barley-cake, lump (of dough)”
  3. derived from massa
  4. derived from masse
  5. compounded as dry mass — “dry + mass”

Definitions

  1. The mass of a rocket including its contents but without propellant.

  2. A demonstrative celebration of most of the liturgy of the Mass, omitting the consecration…

    A demonstrative celebration of most of the liturgy of the Mass, omitting the consecration of the elements.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA