-- a word applied to assemblies of Christians, in ancient times of persecution, held before light in the morning.
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An open air concert in the morning, as distinguished from an evening serenade
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also, a pianoforte composition suggestive of morning.
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A canticle (the Latin version of which begins with this word) which may be used in the order for morning prayer in the Church of England
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-- now commonly with allusion to the cell (the Black Hole) in a fort at Calcutta, into which 146 English prisoners were thrust by the nabob Suraja Dowla on the night of June 20, 17656, and in which 123 of the prisoners died before morning from lack of air.
