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Definition of Breviary
1. Noun. (Roman Catholic Church) a book of prayers to be recited daily certain priests and members of religious orders.
Category relationships: Church Of Rome, Roman Catholic, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Church, Western Church
Definition of Breviary
1. n. An abridgment; a compend; an epitome; a brief account or summary.
Definition of Breviary
1. Noun. A book containing prayers, hymns, and so on for everyday use at the canonical hours. ¹
2. Noun. (obsolete) A brief statement or summary. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Breviary
1. a prayer book [n -RIES]
Medical Definition of Breviary
1. Origin: F. Breviarie, L. Breviarium summary, abridgment, neut. Noun fr. Breviarius abridged, fr. Brevis short. See Brief, and cf. Brevier. 1. An abridgment; a compend; an epitome; a brief account or summary. "A book entitled the abridgment or breviary of those roots that are to be cut up or gathered." (Holland) 2. A book containing the daily public or canonical prayers of the Roman Catholic or of the Greek Church for the seven canonical hours, namely, matins and lauds, the first, third, sixth, and ninth hours, vespers, and compline; distinguished from the missal. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
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Literary usage of Breviary
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)
"Any Church which had not such an ancient breviary was bound to adopt that of Rome.
... At the same time the real foundation of the breviary—the Psalter—was ..."
2. Roman Law in the Modern World by Charles Phineas Sherman (1922)
"The breviary of Alaric constituted for centuries in other parts of ... About thirty
years before the Arab conquest of Spain, the breviary of Alaric was ..."
3. The Latin Hymn-writers and Their Hymns by Samuel Willoughby Duffield (1889)
"THE HYMN-WRITERS OF THE breviary. THERE are three principal liturgical books in
use in the Roman Catholic Church. Originally there were two : the Ritual, ..."
4. The History of the Popes, from the Close of the Middle Ages: Drawn from the by Ludwig Pastor, Ralph Francis Kerr, Frederick Ignatius Antrobus (1908)
"It \ is, however, characteristic that the proposed amendments did not affect the
subject but the form of the breviary, the sole object of Leo's efforts ..."
5. Six Years in the Monasteries of Italy, and Two Years in the Islands of the by S. I. Mahoney (1845)
"THE first and leading feature of the breviary is its tendency to extol and confirm
... Thus the breviary published immediately after the council of Trent by ..."
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