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black mass

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black mass
n.
1. A travesty of the Roman Catholic Mass, ascribed to worshipers of Satanism.
2. Black Mass Informal A Requiem Mass.

black mass
Noun
a blasphemous travesty of the Christian Mass, used in black magic

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Away down on the level under the black mass of the Castle, the town lay, stretched along the river, its intricate cobweb of streets jeweled with twinkling lights; there were rows of lights on the bridges; these flung lances of light upon the water, in the black shadows of the arches; and away at the extremity of all this fairy spectacle blinked and glowed a massed multitude of gas-jets which seemed to cover acres of ground; it was as if all the diamonds in the world had been spread out there.
I caught a glimpse of a black mass disappearing in the east, its beacon lights dying out in the distance.
In front of us, at a distance of two hundred yards or so as well as I could calculate, rose a black mass, which gradually resolved itself, as my eyes became accustomed to the twilight, into a long, low, and ancient house, with a hedge of evergreens and a pitch-black paling in front of it.
 
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