Usually means: Introductory chant in Catholic Mass.
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  1. introit: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. introit: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. introit: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. introit: Collins English Dictionary
  5. introit: Vocabulary.com
  6. Introit, introit: Wordnik
  7. introit: Wiktionary
  8. introit: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. introit: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. introit: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Introit, introit: Dictionary.com
  12. introit: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Introit: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Introit: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. introit: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. Introit: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. introit: Free Dictionary
  18. introit: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
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  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

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  1. Introit: Catholic Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (introit)

noun:  (Roman Catholicism, music) A prayer, typically part of a psalm or other portion of the Bible, read or sung at the start of Mass while or immediately after the priest ascends to the altar.
noun:  (music, Christianity, chiefly Protestantism) Any piece of choral music, especially a setting of an anthem or a psalm, sung at the opening of a church service.
noun:  (obsolete) The action of entering or going in; an entrance.
noun:  (obsolete, figuratively) An introduction.

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