| 释义 |
‖ preces, n. pl.|ˈpriːsiːz|
[L. precēs, pl. of *prex, prec-em prayer.]
In liturgical worship, The short petitions which are said as verse and response by the minister and the congregation alternately.
1511Fabyan Will in Chron. (1811) Pref. 8, I will that he whiche is assigned to begyn ‘De profundis’ and saye the preces, have .ijd. and to euery of the other I will be given .id. 1844Lingard Anglo-Sax. Ch. (1858) I. App. 378 The preces in the Breviary. 1882F. E. Warren in Encycl. Brit. XIV. 707/1 The chief traces of Oriental affinity lie in..the occasional presence of ‘preces’, a series of short intercessions resembling the Greek ‘Ektene’, or deacon's litany. |