liturgicaladj.
/lᵻˈtəːdʒᵻkl/, U.S. /ləˈtərdʒək(ə)l/ Pertaining to or connected with public worship; having to do with liturgies or forms of public worship, or spec. with the Liturgy or Eucharistic service. Also, pertaining to liturgics. liturgical colours: the colours used in ecclesiastical vestments, hangings for the altar, etc., varying according to the season, festival, or kind of service. liturgical day: a day on which mass was celebrated. Liturgical Movement (see quot. 1957).
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > [adjective]
solemna1340
ceremonial138.
solemnyc1420
solemned1423
solenc1460
solemnel?1473
solemnly1482
ceremonious1555
ritual1570
rituous1604
ceremonicala1627
liturgical1641
liturgic1656
Levitical1670
hierurgical1725
sacral1882
society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > [adjective] > relating to liturgy
liturgical1849
liturgiological1887
society > faith > worship > sacrament > communion > mass > [noun] > day of
liturgical day1894
society > faith > worship > sacrament > communion > mass > kinds of mass > [noun] > high > day of
liturgical day1894
society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > [noun] > movement encouraging layfolk
Liturgical Movement1929
1641 J. Milton Animadversions 19 The time is taken up with a tedious number of Liturgicall tautologies, and impertinencies.
1707 R. Nelson Compan. Festivals & Fasts (ed. 4) ii. ix. 580 There being no less than five liturgical words in that Text.
1849 D. Rock Church our Fathers I. ii. 106 The greatest Liturgical scholars are divided on the meaning of this ordinance.
1849 D. Rock Church our Fathers I. ii. 172 The Anglo-Saxons got all their liturgical books from Rome.
1861 C. H. Pearson Early & Middle Ages Eng. 135 A liturgical service like that of the missal.
1875 Chambers's Jrnl. No. 133. 54 The impressive pomp of liturgical ceremonial.
1894 O. J. Reichel in Trans. Exeter Diocesan Archit. Soc. 1 30 That Pope writing to Decentius informs him that on ordinary liturgical days the presbyters consecrated with their bishop.
1929 Tablet 17 Aug. 197/2 The proficiency of these youngsters has been acquired in our Catholic schools, the grand hope of the Liturgical Movement, and Catholic girls are not lagging behind Catholic boys.
1935 A. G. Hebert Liturgy & Society v. 126 The so-called Liturgical Movement is concerned with things vastly more important than mere ritualism.
1957 F. L. Cross Oxf. Dict. Christian Church 815/1 Liturgical Movement, a Movement of which the object is the restoration of the active participation by the people in the official worship of the Church.
1959 Times Lit. Suppl. 29 May 325/3 Since the war the landscape of Christianity has been unmistakably changing..under the gradual pressures of that climate of opinion generally called the Liturgical Movement.
Derivatives
liˈturgically adv. from a liturgical point of view; in a liturgy, in liturgical worship.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > [adverb]
solemnlya1325
solenly1393
ritelyc1475
solenny1480
solemniouslya1578
ceremoniously1600
ritually1612
ceremonially1644
ritualistically1852
liturgically1864
1864 E. M. Goulburn Office Holy Communion I. 77 Liturgically considered the Decalogue is to be regarded as a lesson from the Law.
1899 T. K. Cheyne Christian Use Psalms i. 18 The Psalms are all used liturgically.
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