Other female whims followed, but none, methought, so pregnant, so invitatory of shrewd conceits, and more than single meanings.
His growl was as thunder in their ears, whether he spake to them in mirth or in rebuke, his invitatory notes being, indeed, of all, the most repulsive and horrid.
About midnight a more solemn Office began, this time with theinvitatory and psalm Venite.
Its Latin form in the invitatory differs slightly from the Vulgate text.
The invitatory is omitted, they tell us, that we, like the Magi, may come to Christ, without other than a silent invitation.
In solemn vigils, in the early Church, the congregation took part in the psalm singing, and hence we find psalmi responsorii mentioned, and we still have a typical instance in the Invitatory Psalm of our Office.
In Epiphany the invitatory is not said in the beginning of Matins, in order, say the liturgists, not to repeat the inquiry made by Herod from the scribes about the birthplace of Christ, an inquiry and invitation inspired by hatred and anger.
When, therefore, only one nocturn is recited, the invitatory is to be omitted except on the dies obitus seu depositionis.
The first Sunday of Advent has the invitatory hymn and the rest of the Office proper.
An example of this early and more elaborate use survived in the Breviary in the treatment of the Venite as an Invitatory Psalm.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "invitatory" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: admissible; hospitable; inviting; open; receivable; receptive; recipient; welcoming
