Kyrielle

A litany beginning with the words.

the problem here (as it was with groving) appears to be with the way that Brainy used Webster's 1913. once again, here is the original entry:

n. [Cf. F. kyrielle.] A litany beginning with the words. Kyrie eleison." Shipley.

most usage of the 1913 hasn't edited the source; Brainy has seemingly taken an unfortunate tack, quitting at the first full stop (which apparently was meant to be a ", in this case).

Webster's 1913 Unabr. became public domain in 1988; here is the whole story explaining how that came to be: http://snipurl.com/cpgm. the relationship between the 1913 and the modern Merriam-Webster dictionary is described as "tenuous at best".

I'm only carping at this because we rather quickly uncovered two problems with def'ns, a rather critical element of any dictionary. :)

-joe (caveat emptor) friday

p.s. - irrespective of edits, I am very circumstpect in using the 1913. here is the best direct link to it.
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/ARTFL/forms_unrest/webster.form.html