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
Koberger’s printing-house contained twenty-four presses, and employed over a hundred men, printing not only Bibles and breviaries, but also chronicles, homilies, poems, and scientific works.
From Dürer Artist-Biographies by M. F. Sweetser
Most priests will have observed that missals and breviaries differ with regard to the rite of the Feast of St. Andrew Avellino, some giving it as a double, others as a semi-double.
From The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, December 1864 by Various
A tendency to include in all services a song to the wrathful word of the gods and a song to the sorrowful earth mother is seen even in the Nippurian breviaries of the precanonical type.
From Sumerian Liturgies and Psalms by Stephen Langdon
"I saw few things when I was abroad, before my marriage, that interested me more than the illuminated missals and breviaries preserved in convents, museums, and private collections of vertu," she said to Mr. Wyllys.
From Jessamine A Novel by Marion Harland
