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Definition of Old Church Slavonic

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

Definition of Old Church Slavonic

1. Proper noun. The first literary and liturgical Slavic language. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Old Church Slavonic

Literary usage of Old Church Slavonic

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

1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"... translated and arranged for the Old Church-Slavonic Service Books of the Russian Church and collated with the Service Books of the Greek Church, ..."

2. The Science of Etymology by Walter William Skeat (1912)
"Brugmann calls this Old Bulgarian by the name of ' Old Church-Slavonic', for which I substitute ' O. Slav.', ie Old Slavonic simply. § 125. ..."

3. Synopsis of Old English Phonology: Being a Systematic Account of Old English by Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1891)
"Baltic-Slavonic, including Old Prussian, Lithuanian, Lettish, and Old Bulgarian (Old Church Slavonic). VIII. Germanic. The Germanic branch consists of:— i. ..."

4. 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 (1907)
"Service book of the Holy orthodox-Catholic apostolic (Greco-Russian) church; сотр., tr., and arr. from the old church-Slavonic service books of the Russian ..."

5. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1909)
"... old Irish, Gothic, old High German, Lithuanian and old Bulgarian [and old Church Slavonic], v. 1-4, and indices. New York: West- ermann <V Ca., 1888-95. ..."

6. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1855)
"... take the place of the old Church Slavonic in some of the services. Hence great discontent and complaints And Paul V. still further confirmed and ..."

7. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"... it is frequently of assistance in comparative philology, as exhibiting a modern form of language allied to the Old Church Slavonic. ..."

8. Communist Regimes in Eastern Europe by Richard Felix Staar (1982)
"These basic tongues arose from the slow evolution of dialects from a single language, the Old (Church) Slavonic that was spoken at the time when southern ..."

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