[L., = ‘thee therefore,’ the opening words of the prayer.] The first prayer in the canon of the Mass in the Roman and some other Latin liturgies; hence extended to the liturgical book itself.
1819. Scott, Ivanhoe, xliii. Bring forward the crucifix and the Te igitur [Gloss. The service book on which oaths were sworn].
1853. Rock, Ch. Fathers, III. II. xi. 35. An acolyte … took from off the altar the paten, and so held this broad, shallow kind of dish until the Te igitur, or the first words of the canon.
1897. J. D. Chambers, Div. Worship, IV. v. 349. The subsequent petitions are taken from the ‘Te Igitur’ or first part of the Canon.
