Definition of Old Church Slavic

1. Noun. The Slavic language into which the Bible was translated in the 9th century.


Definition of Old Church Slavic

1. Proper noun. Old Church Slavonic. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Old Church Slavic

Olav II
Olbers' paradox
Old Armenian
Old Babylonian
Old Bailey
Old Belarusian
Old Bill
Old Blighty
Old Breton
Old Bulgarian
Old Bullion
Old Catalan
Old Catholic
Old Catholic Church
Old Chinese
Old Church Slavic (current term)
Old Church Slavonic
Old Colony
Old Cornish
Old Dart
Old Delhi
Old Dominion
Old Dominion State
Old Dutch
Old Earth Creationism
Old East Slavic
Old East Slavonic
Old Egyptian
Old English
Old English Sheepdog

Literary usage of Old Church Slavic

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

1. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1904)
"( See Old Church Slavic LANGUAGE AND ... the functions of the other two when referring to the subject, in Russian invariably, in Old Church Slavic usually: ..."

2. Who are the Slavs?: A Contribution to Race Psychology by Paul Rankov Radosavljevich (1919)
"The place of the origin of Old Church Slavic cannot be exactly determined, although it seems to ... The phonology of Old Church Slavic is closely related to ..."

3. The New International Encyclopaedia by Herbert Treadwell Wade (1922)
"... and with reference to the principles of word formation (as in the -ti- formation in Old Church Slavic, Czech, Polish, Russian, Lithuanian, Lettish, ..."

4. Register by University of California, Berkeley, California, University (1922)
"Old Church Slavic. (3) Either half-year. NOYES Hours to be arranged. ... Study of the relation of Old Church Slavic to the other Indo-European languages. ..."

5. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"The work is extant only in an Old Church Slavic translation, though the Greek text of i. 20-ii. 8 is given by Epiphanius (Hair., ..."

6. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"The oldest of the Slavic tongues is the old Church Slavic or Old Bulgarian, which is still the ritual language of the Greek Orthodox Church in Russia, ..."

7. Modern Philology: Its Discoveries, History, and Influence. With Maps by Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight (1865)
"... in this alphabet, the Old Church- Slavic : as distinguished from the Bulgarian found in the Cyrillic alphabet, which he denominates Church- Slavic. ..."

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