MISERERE

Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art · 1842 · p. 29

The 50th Psalm, 4th of the Penitential Psalms, is that designated by the Roman Catholic church under this word, on account of its first words (in the Vulgate translation, "miserere mei Deus, secundum magnam misericord i am tuam"). It is the usual psalm appointed for acts of penitence and mortification. [s. 768]