do-minus

Updated: May 31, 2025

Apparently they received it seriously as an eminently becoming preface of oratory, just as they do the "Do-minus vobiscum" of the mass. But one day I spoke of it in one of the classes intentionally not in the society. When they saw our viewpoint, they shrieked with delight, and from that time on, the budding orators ceased to tremble.

Mary Helen Fee - A Woman's Impression of the Philippines