breviary
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- noun
- /ˈbrɛviˌɛri/
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breviario
- No one is arguing about changes in the Breviary that will have to be made as new saints are proclaimed.
- breviary or book
Examples
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Catholic monks have services at set times every day; priests have their breviaries.
Fiction book (1992) -
I highly suggest reading the Roman Martyrology every day (it is part of the Traditional Breviary's hour of Prime).
Blog text (22) -
Last night I took time to find my place in the breviary, a book of psalms arranged in four weeks.
Blog text (9) -
And, as noted above, St. Pius X made rather fundamental changes to the Roman Breviary.
Blog text (6) -
A good place to find it is at the Divinum Officium website, which has the full Traditional Breviary online.
Blog text (22) -
Maybe St. Pius X was imprudent when he reformed the breviary, but he certainly had the authority to do so.
Blog text (6) -
Prayer books and printed church documents, including breviaries and calendars of saints' days, were printed in Latin and Spanish, most likely in Europe.
Academic text (2011) -
Every morning, the priest recites the daily prayers from his breviary during mass.
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The monk studied his breviary before the morning service to ensure he knew the correct hymns.
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As part of his routine, he opened the breviary to read the psalms for that day.
Synonyms
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A book with prayers people say during religious services
How Formal
Surface Forms
Morphology
breviary = brevi + ary
Although the form contains the combining element 'brevi-' and the suffix '-ary', the meaning 'a book of daily prayers' is borrowed/historical and not transparently derivable by an average learner from those parts.
Etymology
Breviary comes from the Latin root brevis, which means 'short', and is the same root as the English word brief. So a breviary is a shorter book of daily prayers used by priests and monks.