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liturgic, a. and n.|lɪˈtɜːdʒɪk|
[ad. late L. lītūrgic-us, a. Gr. λειτουργικ-ός, f. λειτουργ-ός: see liturgy.]
A. adj. = liturgical.
1656Blount Glossogr., Liturgick, pertaining to such a Liturgy; ministerial. a1763Byrom Expost. with Sectarist 11 Misc. Poems 1773 II. 280 At all liturgic Pray'r and Praise it storms, As Man's Inventions. 1781Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry III. xxvii. 166 The Te Deum, Benedictus,..and the rest of the liturgic hymns. 1880T. C. Murray Orig. & Growth Ps. ix. 282 We saw that it [Ps. cviii] was a purely liturgic cento.
b. Gr. Antiq. (Cf. liturgy 3.)
1849Grote Greece ii. lxi. (1862) V. 318 The Athenians abridged the costly splendour of their choric and liturgic ceremonies at home.
B. n. pl.
†1. ? Liturgical books. Obs.
a1677Barrow Pope's Suprem. (1680) 81 The like may be said for Saint James, if he (as the Roman church doth in its Liturgicks suppose) were an Apostle.
2. a. The study of liturgies, their form, origin, etc. b. That part of pastoral theology which deals with the conduct of public worship.
1855Ogilvie, Suppl., Liturgics, the doctrine or theory of liturgies. 1860Worcester (citing Eclectic Rev.). 1882W. Blaikie Ministry of Word 296 Ample treatises on Homiletics, Liturgics, etc. 1882–3Schaff Encycl. Relig. Knowl. 2127 His principal writings relate to liturgics. |