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Dies Irae

noun
1.
The first words of a medieval Latin hymn describing the Last Judgment (literally 'day of wrath').





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"Dies Irae" Quotes from Famous Books



... when Orion Kisses the Zenith. The doom of treason is Death. Dies Irae. The wolf is on his walk—the serpent coils to strike. Action! Action!! Action!!! By midnight and the Tomb; by Sword and Torch and the Sacred Oath at Forrester's Altar, I bid you come! The clansmen of Glen Iran and Alpine will greet you ...
— The Sequel of Appomattox - A Chronicle of the Reunion of the States, Volume 32 In The - Chronicles Of America Series • Walter Lynwood Fleming
... but the motive was the imperative sense that thinking men must examine and understand their supreme experience—a motive that must weigh with men who are in earnest about life. The great hymns of the Church—such as the "Dies Irae" of Thomas of Celano, or Bernard's "Jesu dulcis memoria", or Toplady's "Rock of Ages"—are transcripts from life, made by deep-going and serious minds. The writers are recording, with deep conviction of its worth, what they have discovered in experience. A man who takes ...
— The Jesus of History • T. R. Glover
... factus sum ego et timeo, dum discussio venerit, atque ventura ira. Quando coeli movendi sunt et terra. Dies illa, dies irae, calamitas et miseriae, dies magna et amara valde. ...
— The St. Gregory Hymnal and Catholic Choir Book • Various


Words linked to "Dies Irae" :   hymn, anthem


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