missal• He thought of little Rosamund and went to the high altar where the great missallay.• She stared at her lap where her hands, gloved in tight white net, gripped her missal.• A Bible, an old mass missal, a Bums, and a tattered paperback, a Mills & Boon.• This time the subject was the rubrics of the Roman missal and the form of the HolySaturdayvigil.• Athelstan closed the missal, all thoughts of Pike the ditcher and his family cleared from his head.• A small breezelicked at the pages of the missal.
Originmissal
(1200-1300)Medieval Latinmissale, from Vulgar Latinmissa; → MASS15