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Definitions: Liturgy |
LiturgyNoun1. A Christian sacrament commemorating the Last Supper by consecrating bread and wine. 2. A rite or body of rites prescribed for public worship. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Liturgy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
Etymology: Liturgy \Lit"ur*gy\, noun; plural Liturgies. [French expression liturgie, Late Latin expression liturgia, Greek a public service, the public service of God, public worship; (assumed) belonging to the people, public (fr. the people) the root of work. See Lay, adjective, and Work.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Literature | Liturgy originally meant public work, such as arranging the dancing and singing on public festivals, the torch-races, the equipping and manning of ships, etc. In the Church of England it means the religious forms prescribed in the Book of Common Prayer. (Greek, litourgia.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Eastern Orthodox churches call the liturgy in which the Eucharist is celebrated and served the Divine Liturgy. This is generally comparable to the Roman Catholic Mass, although some details are different. This can also refer to the detailed rubrics for this ceremony; two of the best known are the "Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom and the "Divine Liturgy of St. Basil the Great
Matins refers to prayers generally said in the morning, without the Eucharist. Vespers refers to prayers generally said in the evening, without the Eucharist. Great Vespers is an extended vespers service used on the eve of a major Feast day, or on the evening before the Eucharist will be celebrated.A partial list of liturgical churches and some examples of their liturgies (past and present)
Frequent liturgical practice
Most Protestant Christian denominations, while often following a fixed "order of worship," do not adhere to a liturgy in the strict sense of the word.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Liturgy."
Synonym: LiturgySynonym: sacrament of the Eucharist (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Rite | Noun: rite; ceremony, ritual, liturgy, ceremonial; ordinance, observance, function, duty; form, formulary; solemnity, sacrament; incantation; (spell); service, psalmody; (worship). |
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Crosswords: Liturgy |
| English words defined with "Liturgy": Antecommunion ♦ Burial service ♦ Christian liturgy, Common prayer ♦ doxology ♦ Eucharistic liturgy, Euchology ♦ liturgical, Liturgically, Liturgies ♦ Melchite, Muzarab, Muzarabic ♦ Rosh Chodesh, Rosh Hodesh ♦ Sarum use. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Liturgy": Margaret. (references) |
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Civil Liberties | Korea | Foreigners who have met with representatives of these organizations believe that some are genuinely religious but note that others appear to know little about religious dogma, liturgy, or teaching. (references) |
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| "Liturgy" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.64% of the time. "Liturgy" is used about 254 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) | 97.64% | 248 | 18,908 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.57% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (common) | 0.79% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 254 | N/A |
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Expressions using "Liturgy": christian liturgy ♦ eucharistic liturgy. Additional references. | |
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| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "Liturgy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | liturgji. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | طقس القربان المقدس, طقس ديني (order, ordinance, service). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | църковна служба (celebration, church service), литургия (mass, rite, service, worship). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | liturgie (use). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | liturgie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | liturgio. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مناجات نامه , اداب نماز, اءین نماز. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | liturgia, alttaripalvelus (altar service). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | liturgie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Liturgie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | λειτουργία εκκλησίασ, λειτουργία (action, choral service, function, mass, ministration, office, operation, service). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | סדר תפילות (rosary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | liturgia (rite), egyházi szertartás, egyházi szertartásrend. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | tata kebaktian. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | liturgia. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 典礼 (ceremony, courtesy, etiquette). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | てんれい (ceremony, courtesy, etiquette, graceful, seal style and ancient square style). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | shirveish ny hagglish, liturgey. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | iturgylay liturgia (livable), ritualístico. (various references) liturghie, serviciu divin (celebration, church service, office, service). (various references) литургия (mass). (various references) liturgija. (various references) liturgia. (various references) liturgi. (various references) komünyon (communion, communion holy), cemaat ile okunan dua, aşai rabbani (bread and wine, the lord's supper). (various references) літургія. (various references) nghi thức tế lễ. (various references) ffurfwasanaeth. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Late Latin | 300-700 | liturgia. (various references) |
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"Liturgy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: leutry, litagy, literagy, litergy, Lithrig, lithurgy, liturgic, liturgt, lliturgy, Lydbury. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "Liturgy" (pronounced li"terjē) |
| 3 | -er j ē | allergy, energy, lethargy, metallurgy, synergy. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-l-r-t-u-y" | |
-1 letter: guilty, trigly. | |
-2 letters: girly, guilt, truly. | |
-3 letters: gilt, girl, girt, glut, grit, gyri, iglu, litu, ruly, tirl, trig, trug, ugly, yurt. | |
-4 letters: git, gul, gut, guy, lit, lug, rig, rug, rut, til, try, tug, tui. | |
-5 letters: it, li, ti, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-l-r-t-u-y" | |
+1 letter: turgidly. | |
+2 letters: frugality, garrulity, uprightly, vulgarity. | |
+3 letters: angularity, outrightly, regularity, rightfully, trustingly, untiringly. | |
+4 letters: frightfully, granularity, gustatorily, insurgently, righteously, singularity. | |
+5 letters: antiburglary, blusteringly, butterflying, distraughtly, disturbingly, figuratively, granulocytic, gratuitously, intriguingly, irregularity, liturgically, liturgiology, sprightfully, thunderingly, triangularly, trilingually. | |
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