breviary
noun
a book containing all the daily psalms, hymns, prayers, lessons, etc., necessary for reciting the office.
breviaries
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pluralof breviary.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Moreover, the widespread liturgical experimentation encouraged by Vatican II seriously undermined a profitable "black book" trade in breviaries, missals and hymnals.
From Time Magazine Archive
They had "eggs, bread, wine from the king's cellar, their breviaries, their night-gowns, a palliasse, and a mattress," brought to them there; and they were kept under ocular supervision for four and twenty hours.
From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4 by Robert Black
He was no reader, and had brought few books, his whole library comprising but thirty-one volumes, and these mostly religious works, such as psalters, missals, breviaries, and the like.
From Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality - Volume VII by Charles Morris
I doubt whether the two priests ever thumbed their breviaries so devoutly in their lives.
From Tracks of a Rolling Stone by Henry J. (Henry John) Coke
Brevier, brev-ēr′, n. a small type between bourgeois and minion, originally used in printing breviaries.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
