lectionary
noun
a book or a list of lections for reading in a divine service.
lectionaries
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pluralof lectionary.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Still, by the time it completes its next two lectionaries, Gold's panel will have renovated about 95% of the New Testament and 60% of the Old.
From Time Magazine Archive
Chancing one day to examine the Vulgate in the university library, he saw with astonishment that there were more gospels and epistles than in the lectionaries.
From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
He also completed a whole corpus of lectionaries, missals, gospels, &c.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various
For further notices of these, as also of the lectionaries, containing selections for church readings, the reader may consult the works devoted to biblical criticism.
From Companion to the Bible by E. P. (Elijah Porter) Barrows
