Also 6 kirie. [Short for Kyrie eleison: see next.]
1. = next, 1. b. esp. A musical setting of the Kyrie eleison in the Ordinary of the Mass, or of the Response to each of the Commandments in the Anglican Communion Service.
1519. Churchw. Acc. St. Giles Reading, 6. A Pryk-song boke … wherin is conteyned iiii masses, iij kyries, iij allohuies and ij exultands.
1597. Morley, Introd. Mus., 153. I remember a peece of composition of foure parts of maister Tauernor in one of his kiries.
16[?]. MS. Music Bk. at Durh. Cath. Mr. Brimley his kerrie to Mr. Sheperd’s Creede.
1657. Sparrow, Bk. Com. Prayer (1664), 241. Then follow the Commandments, with a Kyrie, or Lord have mercy upon us, after every one of them.
1845. E. Holmes, Mozart, 41. His first essay in Church Music,—the Kyrie of a mass for four voices and four stringed instruments.
1866. J. H. Blunt. Annot. Bk. Com. Prayer, 167. The Kyrie thus said appears to represent the ancient Litany element of the Eucharistic Office.
† 2. = next, 2. Obs.
15[?]. Jack Jugler, in Grosart, Two Enterludes (1873), 63. He shoulde haue suche a kyrie, ere he went too bed, As he neuer had before in all his lyfe.
1582. Stanyhurst, Æneid, I. (Arb.), 21. This kyrye sad solfing, thee northern bluster aproching Thee sayls tears tag rag, to the sky thee waues vphoysing.
