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Definition of Breviaries
1. breviary [n] - See also: breviary
Lexicographical Neighbors of Breviaries
Literary usage of Breviaries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"On the different breviaries: Breviary of Cluny; Brigittine Breviary; Breviary of St.
... On the Milan Breviary, Mozarabic Breviary, and Eastern breviaries, ..."
2. History of the Church of England: From the Abolition of the Roman Jurisdiction by Richard Watson Dixon (1881)
"Nay rather, there were many breviaries; f perhaps there always had been ...
which produced the breviaries of the eleventh century, came first from her. ..."
3. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1839)
"The writer was at Hull, when the emigrants (principally priests, with their eyes
sadly cast on their breviaries, and clad in their soiled monkish habita, ..."
4. Barbizon Days: Millet, Corot, Rousseau, Barye by Charles Sprague Smith (1902)
""They are my breviaries," Millet answered. " It is from them I draw forth all
that I do." "You loved Virgil well in the old days." "I love him still. ..."
5. History of Painting by Karl Woermann (1887)
"The margins of the splendid breviaries of the latter half of the fifteenth century
are ornamented in this style. Waagen describes as a very important ..."
6. The Cathedral, Or, The Catholic and Apostolic Church in England by Isaac Williams (1843)
"XL Foreign breviaries. They tliat worship Him shall worship Him in spirit and in
truth. Dear Church, our island's sacred sojourner, A richer dress thy ..."
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