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Definition: Doxology |
DoxologyNoun1. A hymn or verse in Christian liturgy glorifying God. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "doxology" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1886. (references) |
Etymology: Doxology \Dox*ol"o*gy\, noun; plural Doxologies. [from Late Latin expression doxologia, Greek, from praising, giving glory; opinion, estimation, glory, praise (from to think, imagine) to speak: compare to the French expression doxologie. See Dogma, and Legend.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Worship | Thanksgiving; giving thanks, returning thanks; grace, praise, glorification, benediction, doxology, hosanna; hallelujah, allelujah; Te Deum, non nobis Domine, nunc dimittis; paean; benschen; Ave Maria, O Salutaris, Sanctus, The Annunciation, Tersanctus, Trisagion. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In Latin, a doxology is added to many hymns and psalms when they are used in Roman Catholic worship. A typical doxology in Latin goes:
Several English doxologies are in frequent use in Protestant worship. Two that are frequently encountered in many different denominations go:
Because most Christian worship services include a doxology, and these hymns therefore were familiar and well-practiced among church choirs, the English word sockdolager arose, a deformation of doxology, which came to mean a "show-stopper," a production number.
Northern Ireland politician Ian Paisley is known to sing the doxology after his election victories. [1]
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Doxology."
Crosswords: Doxology |
| English words defined with "doxology": Doxological, Doxologies, Doxologize ♦ Gloria. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "doxology": Gloria in Excelsis, Glory be to the Father. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "doxology": Sockdolager. (references) |
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| "Doxology" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Doxology" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
doxology | 38 |
doxology record | 5 |
doxology hawaiian | 2 |
doxology music | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "doxology"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
German | Lobgesang (anthem, canticle, hymn, laud, pean, vaunt). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | dossologia. (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | é Œæ „ . (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ã—ょã†ãˆã„ (operated by the government, portrait, Shoei, Shouei). (various references) | ||||||||||
Manx | gloyr da'n Ayr. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | oxologyday doksoloji, temcit duası, şükür duası. (various references) | ||||||||||
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"Doxology" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: diology, Doolough, odology. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "doxology" (pronounced dÄksÄ"lujē) |
| 5 | -Ä" l u j ē | anesthesiology, anthology, anthropology, apology, archaeology, archeology, astrology, bacteriology, biology, biotechnology, cardiology, chronology, cosmetology, criminology, cytology, dendrochronology, dermatology, ecology, embryology, endocrinology, entomology, epidemiology, epistemology, ethnology, ethology, etiology, etymology, genealogy, geology, geomorphology, gerontology, graphology, gynecology, histology, Hymnology, ideology, immunology, kinesiology, limnology, meteorology, methodology, microbiology, micropaleontology, mineralogy, morphology, mycology, mythology, neurology, numerology, oncology, ontology, ophthalmology, ornithology, otology, paleontology, pathology, penology, petrology, pharmacology, physiology, Pomology, psychology, radiology, rheumatology, seismology, serology, sociology, terminology, theology, toxicology, urology, virology, zoology. |
| 4 | -l u j ē | analogy, cosmology, elegy, eulogy, trilogy. |
| 3 | -u j ē | prodigy, strategy. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-g-l-o-o-o-x-y" | |
-2 letters: goodly, oology. | |
-3 letters: dooly, godly, goody, ology. | |
-4 letters: dogy, doxy, gold, good, logo, logy, odyl, oldy. | |
-5 letters: dog, dol, god, goo, gox, goy, log, loo, lox, old, oxo, oxy, yod. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 6F 78 6F 6C 6F 67 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. --- -..- --- .-.. --- --. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101111 01111000 01101111 01101100 01101111 01100111 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D o x o l o g y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 006F 0078 006F 006C 006F 0067 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3881908178817391 |
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