单词 | church service |
释义 | church servicen. 1. The practice or occupation of serving the Church; work or duties carried out for the benefit of the Church. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > [noun] > service of servicec1384 church servicea1400 ministration1535 ministry1560 ministering1566 ministerialism1884 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 10606 Þei had..ȝyuen hir to þe chirche [c1460 Laud chirchis] seruise. 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. iii. 202/1 The priestes and clerkes were thought slacke and negligent in their church seruice. 1610 Bp. J. Hall Common Apol. against Brownists §19 Let there be Widdowers (which you call relieuers) appointed euery where to the Church-seruice. 1719 M. Shelton Hist. & Crit. Ess. Rise Nobility (ed. 2) v. 352 Robert..by his Church-Service, in the War of Jerusalem might merit that Respect of the Clergy. 1894 New World June 492 His religion and his church service are not intended to make him easy in his mind. 1920 Homiletic Rev. June 469/2 Regular and devoted church service is as much of an obligation as is the financing of the church. 1995 Stornoway Gaz. 13 July 6/1 The effect of money, honour and office in church service, and theological education of lay people are on the agenda for discussion. 2. Public Christian worship in a church; a celebration of this, esp. one following a prescribed form. In the Anglican Church occasionally: spec. the liturgy or form of worship as set out in the Book of Common Prayer.In quot. 1587 used of worship in religions other than Christianity. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > [noun] > instance or form of churchOE servicelOE rightlOE observancea1250 officec1300 preachingc1350 ritec1350 ceremonyc1380 usea1382 prayerc1384 form1399 ordinancea1400 ordera1425 worship?a1425 worshippingc1443 common prayer1493 common servicea1500 ordinarya1513 celebrity1534 church servicea1555 religious exercise1560 function1564 agend1581 church office1581 liturgy1593 Common Prayer service1648 ritualities1648 ceremonial1672 hierurgy1678 occasion1761 religiosities1834 cursus1865 joss-pidgin1886 worship service1929 a1555 J. Bradford in M. Coverdale Certain Lett. Martyrs (1564) 350 Company not wyth them specially in their church seruice. 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xvii. 308 It appeareth..by the books of Cerimonies of al Nations; all whose Churchseruices are nothing but sacrifices. 1619 J. Dyke Caveat for Archippus 20 Who may not soone be sufficient to reade..the Church-seruice, and once in a Moone to bestow a mornings blessing vpon his people? 1670 H. Stubbe Censvre 19 Part of the Church Service, nor imposed on the Communicants to hold. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 338. 105 They have..introduc'd in their farewell Voluntaries a sort of Musick quite foreign to the Design of Church-Services. 1786 J. Wesley Let. 30 Nov. (1931) VII. 354 Wherever there is any church service, I do not approve of any appointment the same hour. 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality xii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. II. 304 He has gone to church service with me fifty times. 1883 J. W. Sherer At Home & in India 38 Church service was held..in the parade-ground. 1908 S. Coit National Idealism & Bk. Common Prayer i. 13 This is one of the most beautiful ceremonies in the whole of the Church service. 1971 K. Awoonor This Earth, my Brother v. 61 It was unheard of for a boy to miss church service. 2008 Guardian 28 Apr. (G2 section) 3/4 A Sunday morning church service, a stroll through the countryside and then a couple of pints of warm ale and a roast dinner. 3. colloquial. Chiefly with capital initials. A service book; esp. (in the Anglican Church) a book containing, in addition to the Book of Common Prayer, the prescribed readings of the day, metrical version of the psalms, etc. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > book (general) > service book (general) > [noun] church bookOE servicelOE standard1466 kirk book1503 service book1553 Hirmologion1850 church service1855 1855 E. A. S. Eccles Riches of Poverty xxiii. 198 She..had noted down several of the pieces of information she had gained, on the flyleaf of her Church Service. 1899 W. Cudworth Life & Corr. Abraham Sharp ix. 258 A Roman missal,..in such minute text as to be no bulkier than a good-sized printed Church Service of the present day. 1919 M. Sinclair Mary Olivier iv. 195 Mamma sat in her arm-chair, tired and patient, holding her Bible and her Church Service on her knees, ready. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1400 |
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