Definition of Book of Common Prayer

1. Noun. The Anglican service book of the Church of England; has had several revisions since the Reformation and is widely admired for the dignity and beauty of its language.

Terms within: Book Of Psalms, Psalter, Litany
Generic synonyms: Service Book

Definition of Book of Common Prayer

1. Proper noun. The book containing the liturgy of the Church of England; compiled by Thomas Cranmer in 1549 following the Act of Uniformity. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Book Of Common Prayer

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Bonnie
Bonnier's syndrome
Bononian phosphorus
Bontemps
Bonwill triangle
Boocercus eurycerus
Boodha
Boodhas
Boodhism
Boodhist
Boodhists
Boogeyman
Book of Amos
Book of Baruch
Book of Common Prayer (current term)
Book of Daniel
Book of Deuteronomy
Book of Ecclesiastes
Book of Esther
Book of Exodus
Book of Ezekiel
Book of Ezra
Book of Genesis
Book of Habakkuk
Book of Haggai
Book of Hosea
Book of Isaiah
Book of Jeremiah
Book of Job

Literary usage of Book of Common Prayer

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. American Book Prices Current (1921)
"Book of Common Prayer, with The Psalms. Portraits and engravings and ... Book of Common Prayer proposed to the Use of the Protestant Episcopal Church. ..."

2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"1905; JH Blunt, Annotated Book of Common Prayer, pp. 32, 460, 657 sqq., New York, 1908. ORDINARY: In canon law this expression denotes the bishop of the ..."

3. The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature: Containing an Account of by William Thomas Lowndes (1864)
"The Catechism and Articles, ' Book of Common Prayer,with ... "The Book of Common Prayer adapted The Pictorial Book of Common Prayer. ..."

4. The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature: Containing an Account of by William Thomas Lowndes, Henry George Bohn (1890)
"The Book of Common Prayer arranged by the Кет, J. Bosworth. Load. ... New Calendar, and many occasional forms. Book of Common Prayer,wlth ..."

5. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"That demand was refused; and it was not until September, 1548, that the final stage in the evolution of the First Book of Common Prayer was commenced. ..."

6. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1860)
"revisers of the Book of Common Prayer, in some late, having married Mr. Edward ... Book of Common Prayer ..."

7. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1878)
"JH Blunt, the well-known Church of England writer and author of " The Annotated Book of Common Prayer," of which the first of the three volumes is ready. ..."

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