Liturgy
21liturgy — See litany. See litany, liturgy …
22LITURGY — is sometimes used as including any form of public worship, but more strictly it denotes the form for the observance of the Eucharist. As development from the simple form of their institution in the primitive Church liturgies assumed various… …
23liturgy — An act of worship; from a Greek word meaning an act of public service (e.g. donating a trireme for the Athenian navy). Paul uses the word (Phil. 2:30) for acts of service provided for him by converts. It came to be applied especially of service… …
24liturgy — lit|ur|gy [ˈlıtədʒi US ər ] n plural liturgies [Date: 1500 1600; : Late Latin; Origin: liturgia, from Greek leitourgia, from leitos public + ourgia way of doing things ] 1.) [U and C] a way of praying in a religious service using a fixed order of …
25liturgy — [16] Etymologically, liturgy means ‘public performance’. It comes via late Latin līturgia from Greek leitourgíā ‘public service or worship’. This was a derivative of leitourgós ‘public servant’, hence ‘priest’, a compound formed from leit , the… …
26liturgy — [ lɪtədʒi] noun (plural liturgies) 1》 a form or formulary according to which public religious worship, especially Christian worship, is conducted. ↘(the Liturgy) the service of the Eucharist in the Orthodox Church. 2》 (in ancient Athens) a… …
27liturgy — noun 1 (C, U) a way of praying in a religious service using a fixed order of words, prayers etc 2 the Liturgy the written form of these services …
28liturgy — noun the Anglican liturgy Syn: ritual, worship, service, ceremony, rite, observance, celebration, sacrament; tradition, custom, practice, rubric; formal ordinance …
29liturgy — lit•ur•gy [[t]ˈlɪt ər dʒi[/t]] n. pl. gies 1) rel a form of public worship; ritual 2) rel a collection of formularies for public worship 3) rel a particular arrangement of services 4) rel a particular form or type of the Eucharistic service 5)… …
30liturgy — This word (from the Greek laos, meaning people, and ergon, meaning work ), in general, refers to public service. In the Christian tradition, it is the participation of the people of God in the redemptive work of God through the public… …
