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liturgy

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lit·ur·gy  (ltr-j)
n. pl. lit·ur·gies
1. A prescribed form or set of forms for public religious worship.
2. often Liturgy Christianity The sacrament of the Eucharist.

[Late Latin ltrgia, from Greek leitourgi, public service, from leitourgos, public servant, from earlier litourgos : liton, town hall (from los, dialectal variant of los, people) + ergon, work; see werg- in Indo-European roots.]

liturgy
Noun
pl -gies the forms of public services officially prescribed by a Church [Greek leitourgia]
liturgical adj
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.liturgyLiturgy - a Christian sacrament commemorating the Last Supper by consecrating bread and wine
sacrament - a formal religious ceremony conferring a specific grace on those who receive it; the two Protestant ceremonies are baptism and the Lord's Supper; in the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church there are seven traditional rites accepted as instituted by Jesus: baptism and confirmation and Holy Eucharist and penance and holy orders and matrimony and extreme unction
Offertory - the part of the Eucharist when bread and wine are offered to God
Communion, Holy Communion, manduction, sacramental manduction - the act of participating in the celebration of the Eucharist; "the governor took Communion with the rest of the congregation"
2.liturgy - a rite or body of rites prescribed for public worship
religious rite, rite - an established ceremony prescribed by a religion; "the rite of baptism"
Christian liturgy - the Christian worship services

liturgy
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Spanish liturgy [ˈlɪtədʒɪ] nliturgia
French liturgy [ˈlɪtədʒɪ] nliturgie f
German liturgy [ˈlɪtədʒɪ] nLiturgie f
Italian liturgy [ˈlɪtədʒɪ] nliturgia

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This was by no means an intended slight of that liturgy to which the divine alluded, but was the habit of a people who owed their very existence, as a distinct nation, to the doctrinal character of their ancestors.
There was no murdering of the noble music, contained in the Bible and the Liturgy, by its recital in a dead monotone, with no more expression than a mechanical talking-doll.
"Our liturgy," observed Crawford, "has beauties, which not even a careless, slovenly style of reading can destroy; but it has also redundancies and repetitions which require good reading not to be felt.
 
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