lectionary

American  

[lek-shuh-ner-ee] / ˈlɛk ʃəˌnɛr i /

noun

• lectionaries
  plural

1. a book or a list of lections for reading in a divine service.

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lectionary British  

/ ˈlɛkʃənərɪ /

noun

1. a book containing readings appointed to be read at divine services

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• lectionaries
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of lectionary

1770–80; < Medieval Latin ( liber ) lēctiōnārius. See lection, -ary

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

lectionary lectionaries

Bring the bulletin from the 10 a.m. service with you, as lectionary readings will be used by the Revs.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 26, 2016

In the next room over, middle-aged women stuffed boxes with pamphlets on females in the lectionary to the tune of “Cracklin’ Rosie” on the radio.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2012

Looking ahead, liturgists hope that eventually Catholics and Protestants will share a common lectionary and thus hear the same selections from Scripture on the same Sundays throughout the year.

From Time Magazine Archive

The first step toward what some religious wags are already calling the "Unisex Bible" will be translation of a new lectionary, the series of Bible readings listed for worship each week in many denominations.

From Time Magazine Archive

This is a lectionary which was once thought to have come from the neighbourhood of Jerusalem, but has been shown by Burkitt to come from Palestinian. that of Antioch.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various

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

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