service book

noun

1. a book containing the forms of worship used in divine services.

Word History and Origins

Origin of service book¹

First recorded in 1570–80

Example Sentences

He has taken the service-book of James Freeman Clarke, and, between reading and chanting, devised a matin service of great beauty.

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He held a service book in his hand, and stood ready to marry Joan of Hohenstein to another.

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There will be a new marriage, at which doubtless you shall hold the service book and he the lady's hand.

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They next invited English exiles abroad to join them at Frankfort, saying nothing about their mutilations of the service book.

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Pie, pī, n. a book which ordered the manner of performing divine service: a service-book: an ordinal.

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